Research Design
These are the two kinds of groups used in an experiment.
What is Control Group & Experimental Group?
This category of drug includes caffeine and cocaine, and increases neural activity.
What are stimulants?
Where the solution to the problem comes to you out of the blue!
What is insight?
A child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100
What is intelligence quotient (IQ)?
A phenomenon that occurs when misleading information has distorted one’s memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
This is when a minor gives consent to participate in a study.
What is assent?
Lobe in the brain associated with auditory and language processing.
What is temporal lobe?
This is the tendency to approach a problem in one way often in a way that has been successful in the past.
What is mental set?
This is high when an IQ test measures what it was designed to measure
What is Validity?
This psychological concept explains why we tend to remember information better when we are in the same location we learned it in.
What is context-dependent memory?
Scatterplots are typically used to chart which type of research design?
What is correlation?
This hormone is similar to the neurotransmitter, norepinephrine.
What is adrenaline?
This is a mental shortcut that is faster than algorithms but more prone to errors and bias.
What are heuristics?
Improved nutrition and better living standards are proposed explanations for this 100+ year trend of higher IQ scores
What is Flynn Effect?
The process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again
What is reconsolidation?
This correlation problem makes it unclear which variable causes a change in another.
What is directionality problem?
If a researcher wanted to see the brain activity in a particular area of the brain, what type of neuroimaging technique would they use?
What is fMRI?
A pair of friends at a noisy baseball game are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. Which principle best explains this scenario?
What is the cocktail party effect?
According to Sternberg, this type of intelligence helps you solve problems encountered in everyday life
What is practical intelligence?
A defense mechanism where our unconscious mind blocks our ability to remember painful, anxiety-producing thoughts and memories to protect/defend our ego
What is repression?
A research design in which one person or a small group of people with a unique trait are studied.
What is case study?
What is the space between neurons called?
What is the synaptic gap?
____________ is a mental image or best example of a concept.
What is prototype?
This is high when an IQ test produces consistent results
What is reliability?
When old information blocks the new information
What is proactive interference?