Who believed the mind was split into two separate parts; the unconscious and conscious mind?
Who is Freud
“Everyone knows what attention is…”. Infamous quote by
Who is William James?
A curve that shows data evenly distributed about the mean.
What is a normal distribution?
I am the brain tissue that consists of cell bodies, dendrites, synapses and capillaries
What is gray matter?
A design where all participants receive all levels of the treatment
What is a within subjects design
What field of academic study shaped psychology before it became a science?
What is philosophy
While watching a video, you are too focused on the amount of times a basketball is bounced and miss the gorilla walking across the screen. What concept am I?
What is inattentional blindness?
If one variable increases, so does the other...
What is positive correlation
I am the lobe of the brain which processes higher-order executive function and controls other brain areas
What is the frontal lobe?
A type of research design that looks for associations among naturally occurring variables.
What is correlational research?
A pseudoscience that involves measuring the skull to make inferences about intelligence.
What is phrenology?
When a target is preceded by an emotional scene, the target is less likely to be noticed.
What is Emotion induced blindness?
One of the most commonly used measure of variance that tells us how tightly clustered data is about the mean
What is standard deviation?
I am the lobe that processes temperature, taste, and touch
What is the parietal lobe?
A variable that is unwanted in the experiment and needs to be taken into account when designing it.
What is a control variable?
A discipline of psychology that developed in opposition to behaviorism.
What is humanism?
A neuropsychological disorder of attention in which patients exhibit a lack of response to stimuli in one half of their visual field
What is visual neglect?
This test compares the difference between means and the difference between standard deviations.
What is a T-test?
I am the area in between two neurons where neurotransmitters are released
What is the synapse?
A means of controlling for individual differences between individuals in a sample.
Hint (if absolute need-be): I will flip a coin for thee, and then the data will be clean
What is random assignment?
Who created behaviorism theory?
Who is John Watson?
An attention disorder where someone cannot view an entire landscape (holes in their vision but not due to a visual deficit).
What is Simultanagnosia?
What the P-value indicates.
What is the probability that the difference in the data is due to chance?
Which neurotransmitter is almost always considered excitatory?
What is Glutamate?
A term used to describe how well a test is measuring what it is aiming to measure.
What is validity?