Parts of the Brain
Controls heartbeat and breathing?
What is a medulla?
Piaget's first cognitive stage?
What is the sensorimotor stage?
What is selective attention?
What is encoding?
Getting info into memory
What is a case study?
In-depth study of 1 person
Responsible for emotions like fear and aggression?
What is an amygdala?
Erikson's conflict in teen years?
What is identity vs Role Confusion?
What is the Muller Lyer illusion an example of
Visual illusion
Difference between recall and recognition?
Recall has no cues
Purpose of random assignment?
Reduces bias
Link between endocrine and nervous systems?
What is a hypothalamus?
What is object permanence?
Knowing things exist when out of sight
What sense does not go through the thalamus?
Smell
What is confirmation bias?
Looking for info that confirms beliefs
What’s the independent variable?
What is manipulated
Damage here can affect speech?
What is Broca's area?
What is kohlberg's postconventional level?
What is moral principles?
What is sensory adaptaion?
Decreased sensitivity to constant stimuli
What’s the spacing effect?
Spaced study > cramming
Double-blind procedure prevents?
Bias from subjects & experimenters
Part that processes visual info?
What is an occipital lobe?
What is Vygotsky's theory emophasized?
Gestalt principle of grouping by proximity
Nearby objects are in a group
What’s the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
Failing to retrieve but feeling it’s close
What is a confounding variable?
A variable that affects results unintentionally