The Brain
This lobe of the brain is responsible for bodily sensations such as touch, pain, pressure, and temperature.
What is the Parietal?
This person argued for the existence of the unconscious and for the hidden meaning of dreams. He also thought childhood experiences had a large influence on personality.
Who is (Sigmund) Freud?
Groups tend to make more extreme decisions than its individual members would have made if acting on their own
What is Group Polarization?
A research strategy in which neither the subjects or the experimenters know which condition or treatment the subject is in.
What is a Double Blind?
An approach to problem-solving in which there are a number of potentially correct responses, often associated with creativity.
What is Divergent thinking?
This nervous system regulates the fight-or-flight response.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)?
Known as the founder of behaviorism, this researcher examined the generalization of conditioned fear in a boy known as “Little Albert.”
Who is (John) Watson?
Individuals often go along with a group`s potentially bad decision because of a desire for group unanimity.
What is Groupthink?
Researchers collect data as they occur in nature, without any manipulation by the observer.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
A defined set of step-by-step procedures that provides the correct answer to a particular problem.
What is an algorithm?
This part of the brain helps with balance & coordination.
What is the Cerebellum?
This person used nonsense syllables to become famous for his “forgetting curve.”
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
The tension that results from a mismatch in one's beliefs and actions.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
The only research method that can demonstrate cause and effect relationships.
What is experiment?
Rules-of-thumb that can be applied to guide decision-making based on a more limited subset of the available information.
What is Heuristics?
This part of a neuron insulates and helps messages travel more quickly down the axon.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
An American psychologist who is best known for her research to the misinformation effect and false memories.
Who is (Elizabeth) Loftus?
Carly cares about the environment but buys a gas-guzzling SUV because she thinks her small impact won’t matter that much. Example of?
What is the Social Trap?
Good researchers ensure they randomly place participants into either the control or experimental condition.
What is Random assignment?
Miller's law argues that the brain can hold this number of objects on average in short-term memory
What is 7?
If you are unable to move your left hand, this hemisphere & lobe of your brain might be injured
What is the Right Frontal?
Influenced by the events of the Holocaust, this researcher was a professor at Yale who conducted questionable experiments on obedience.
The 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese highlighted a phenomenon marked by a diffusion of responsibility.
What is the Bystander Effect?
A p-value of less than or equal to .05 indicates that the result of a research study was unlikely due to chance.
What is Statistical Significance?
Explicit memories are often stored in this part of the brain while implicit memories are stored here
What are the basal ganglia and the cerebellum?