Research Methods
Correlation does NOT equal this.
Causation
The brain and spinal cord make up the _________ Nervous System.
Central
She completed research on sexual orientation.
Evelyn Hooker
If an infant is confident that his/her caregiver is sensitive and responsive, we would classify this infant as having a __________ attachment.
Secure
We use bottom-up processing when learning how to read. Once we know how to read, we use ________ processing.
top-down
You tell a patient that you are giving them a medication to treat their depression, but you actually give them a sugar pill. If the participant reports that the medicine is helping his/her depression, this would be an example of a ________ effect.
Placebo
The _______ connects the brain to the spinal cord and is responsible for basic survival functions.
brain stem
He was a pioneer in industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology.
Hugo Munsterberg
A parenting style characterized by low expectations and low warmth/responsiveness.
Uninvolved
When an amputee feels pain in their missing limb, it is called _________.
phantom limb pain
Factors that undermine the ability to draw causal inferences from an experiment are called _________.
The part of a neuron that extends away from the cell body and is the main input to the neuron is called a ______.
dendrite
Skinner and Watson focused on what was observable and measurable. They were not interested in feelings, culture, or the subconscious. This field of psychology is called _________.
A parenting style characterized by low expectations/control and high warmth/responsiveness.
Permissive
The primary visual cortex is located in which brain lobe?
Occipital lobe
The process of asking participants if they would like to participate in research and telling them what will happen in the study is called ________.
This is fatty tissue that insulates the axons of the neurons and is necessary for normal conduction of electrical impulses among neurons.
Myelin sheath
This branch of psychology can be summed up as "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" and was a precursor to cognitive psychology.
Gestalt Psychology
A parenting style characterized by high expectations/control and low warmth/responsiveness.
Authoritarian
We use rods for dim light vision and _____ for color vision.
cones
The degree to which an effect has been obtained under conditions that are typical for what happens in everyday life is called ________ validity.
ecological
The thick bundle of nerve cells that connects the two hemispheres of the brain and allows them to communicate is called the __________.
He was the first to measure the speed of a neural impulse.
Hermann von Helmholtz
A parenting style characterized by high expectations/control and high warmth/responsiveness.
Authoritative
The finding that responses to multimodal stimuli are typically greater than the sum of the independent responses to each unimodal component if it were presented on its own.
Superadditive effect of multisensory integration