Science Practices
A cheap way of collecting mass amount of data.
What is a survey?
The devil on your shoulder or "animal brain".
What is Id?
The difference between sensation and perception.
What is sensation is the stimuli and perception is how we interpret it?
The theory of personality that focuses on human potential for growth and individual free will.
What is Humanistic Theory?
A type of associative learning where a neutral stimulus, when paired with an unconditioned stimulus, triggers a learned response, called the conditioned response.
What is classical conditioning?
The range of correlation.
What is -1 through 1?
Disguising one’s own threatening impulses or insecurities by attributing them to others
What is Projection?
The name for cognitive framework or a mental blueprint that helps individuals organize and interpret information
What is schema?
The personality theory that says that our personality is based on our attempts to reach self-actualization, usually represented by a shape ancient Egyptians are fond of.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Adding a punishment to decrease the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.
What is positive punishment?
Why should the feral child case study never be an experiment?
What is no informed consent and causes potential long term damages?
The theory that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
What is Psychoanalysis?
The strongest type of memory.
What is sensory memory?
Overestimating how much others notice/evaluate us.
What is the Spotlight Effect?
According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, this is a period from approximately ages 7 to 11 where children begin to use logic in concrete situations. They develop the ability to think logically about real, tangible objects and events, but still struggle with abstract or hypothetical concepts.
What is the concrete operational stage?
The P value that is commonly accepted as a way for you to reject the null hypothesis.
What is less than or equal to 0.05?
Exploring the unconscious by relaxing and saying whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
What is free association?
Calling your new girlfriend your old girlfriend's name is an example of this.
What is proactive interference?
The three things Carl Rogers proposed humans need to grow.
What are genuineness, acceptance, and empathy?
Gamblers going crazy over a winning the same amount of money they could make in 8 hours working versus 8 hours gambling is an example of this.
What is a Skinner's box?
Alt Answer: What is operant conditioning?
The proper way to use deception in research.
Explain a weakness of Psychoanalysis Theory.
What is...?
A person locking in at beer pong when they are six drinks in could be a result of this.
What is state dependent learning?
Explain a weakness in Humanistic Theory.
What is...?
When med students learn about diseases and experience "symptoms" of them.
What is med school student syndrome?
What is a cultural bound syndrome?