Social Psychology
The tendency to attribute others’ behaviour to internal factors rather than situational ones
The fundamental attribution error
This type of learning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to produce a conditioned response.
Classical conditioning
That different parts of the brain have different functions
Localisation of brain function
Acts that are intended to cause another person harm
Aggression
The extent to which a study measures what it claims to measure
Validity
The reduction of personal responsibility to act when a group of people are present
Diffusion of responsibility
The gradual reduction in responding when a conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus
Extinction
The specific area of the brain primarily responsible for executive functions and rational thought
Prefrontal cortex
Distal factors in the in the General Aggression Model
Biological and environmental modifiers
Confounding variables
What roughly 65% of people demonstrated in Milgram's experiment
Willingness to administer electric shocks to the highest level (450 volts)
In operant conditioning, this type of reinforcement strengthens behaviour by presenting a desirable consequence
Positive reinforcement
This area of the brain involved in integrating speech production and comprehension especially for tasks such as reading
Geshwind's territory
Earning capacity
Ambition and industriousness
Emotional stability and maturity
Education and intelligence
Factors in a mate most commonly valued by females according to Buss et al.
The type of statistics that enable a conclusion to be drawn about cause and effect
Inferential statistics
A generalised belief about a group of people
Stereotype
The inability to form new long-term memories after brain damage
Anterograde amnesia
Polysynaptic spinal reflex
The expectation that we should help people in need even if we don't get anything in return
The social responsibility principle
Confidence interval
The influence of others that leads us to conform in order to be liked or accepted
Normative influence
This type of interference occurs when old information hinders the recall of newly learned material.
Proactive interference
Neurotransmitter most involved in controlling appetite
Serotonin
The theory that humans find facial symmetry attractive because the brain has a preference for symmetry across all stimuli
The perceptual bias view
The type of sampling in which each group within a population is intentionally sampled
Stratified sampling