What happens when I squish it?
It is the variable that is manipulated within the experiment
What is the dependent variable?
He is the patient who is best known for losing his ability to encode future memories after having his hippocampus removed
Who is patient HM?
He is the famous researcher who performed an experiment where he conditioned dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell.
Who is Pavlov?
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The name of all 3 TAs
Who are Ahira, Stephanie, and Tatiana?
What the acronym IMRaD stands for
What are Introduction, methods, Results, and Discussion?
He is the philosopher best known for his theory of dualism, a theory which implies a separation between the mind and body.
who is Descartes?
It is the learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired, when a response which is first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
What is classical conditioning?
It is the neurotransmitter associated with motivation, motor control, and attention.
What is dopamine?
It’s where Katie Insel completed her undergraduate degree
What is Columbia University?!!
It’s the part of the research article that gives a brief summary of what the article is about
what is an abstract?
He is the father of psychology. The first psychological laboratory was established by this person.
Who is Wlhem Wundt? OR Who is Wundt?
It is the part of the brain associated with self-regulation, response inhibition, planning, and complex decision making
What is the PFC? OR what is the prefrontal cortex?
It is one of the factors (discussed in lecture) that play a large role in addiction
What is Age? OR what is the environment? OR what is mental health? OR what is genetic risk/predisposition?
(NOTE: another answer may be accepted at Maria’s discretion)
They are the three fields that all TAs are majoring in…
What are neuroscience, social work, and writing/linguistics?
It’s a study design in which different groups of people are exposed to the different experimental conditions.
What is a between-subject design? OR what is between-subject?
He is the psychologist who came up with the concept of the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow? OR Who is Maslow?
It is the part of the brain that produces dopamine
What is the midbrain?
They are the two psychologists that discovered the “Brain stimulation reward”
Who are Odds and Milner?
It is the institution that both Maria Anderson and Michaela Porubonova are doing research at....
What is SUNY Farmingdale? OR What is Farmingdale?
It’s an unmeasured variable that drives an observed correlation between a hypothesized IV and DV by causally influencing both.
what is a confound variable? OR what is a confounding variable?
They are the two psychologists associated with behaviorism
Who are B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson? OR Who are Skinner and Watson?
It includes the dorsal and ventral striatum as well as the amygdala; It is early developing and has to do with impulse.
What is the accelerating network?
They are the three regions of the brain that form part of the mesolimbic dopamine system?
What are the prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and ventral tegmental area?
It is the name of one of the icebreakers we did on the first day
What is “would you rather”? OR What is the Name Game? OR What is stand up, sit down?