The Brain and Bio
This lobe of the brain is responsible for bodily sensations such as touch, pain, pressure, and temperature.
Parietal Lobe
The Psychologist known for his 4 stages of cognitive development.
Jean Piaget
A mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest for two weeks or more.
Major Depressive Disorder
This part of the brain processes implicit memories.
cerebellum
Groups who agree with each other tend to become more extreme in their beliefs.
Group Polarization
A research strategy in which neither the subjects or the experimenters know which condition or treatment the subject is in.
Double-Blind
This nervous system regulates the fight-or-flight response.
Sympathetic Nervous System
The time where certain attachments must form for proper development/it is easy to learn or form those attachments.
Critical Period
The book used by clinicians to diagnose mental disorders
DSM 5
Howard Gardner identified this many intelligences.
8
Individuals often go along with a group`s potentially bad decision because of a desire for group harmony.
Group Think
The only research method that can demonstrate cause and effect relationships.
Experiment
This part of a neuron insulates and helps messages travel more quickly down the axon.
Myelin Sheath
This type of parenting style is characterized by high expectations and high responsiveness.
Authoritative
This disorder involves experiencing flashbacks, nightmares, and anxiety after a traumatic event.
PTSD
This describes the phenomenon of IQ scores rising consistently over time.
Flynn Effect
The 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese highlighted a phenomenon marked by a diffusion of responsibility.
Bystander Effect
Good researchers ensure they randomly place participants into either the control or experimental condition.
Random Assignment
This part of the brain is involved with the incorporation of explicit memories.
Hippocampus
A type of learning where behavior is strengthened if followed by reinforcement.
Operant Conditioning
A common symptom of schizophrenia involving hearing voices or seeing things that aren’t there.
Hallucinations
This type of memory is essentially unlimited.
Long Term Memory
The tension that results from a mismatch in one's beliefs and actions.
Cognitive Dissonance
In order for studies to be replicated, researchers must come up with this to ensure that they comprehensively describe the research variables.
Operational Definition
This is the brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron, triggering the release of neurotransmitters.
Action Potential
Vygotsky's term for the range between what a child can do alone and what they can do with help
Zone of Proximal Development
A disorder characterized by two or more alternating identities, parts, or "personalities"
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Miller's law argues that the human brain can hold a certain number of objects in short-term memory. How many?
7 +/- 2
Some people will exert less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone.
Social Loafing
A p-value of less than or equal to .05 indicates that the result of a research study was unlikely due to chance.