You're Being Mean
Another term for mean
What is average?
A vision condition that causes someone to only see two colors
What is dichromatism?
Hearing your name in a crowded room even though you weren't trying to hear it
What is cocktail party effect?
Time frame of early development wherein things like language are most easily learned
What is critical/sensitive period?
When a group member "rides the coat-tails" of other group members instead of actually doing the work
What is social loafing?
Medication used to treat anxiety
Antianxiety medication/drugs
While it is not legally binding, researchers can obtain this from children in accordance with ethical guidelines
What is informed assent?
Another word for heredity
What is nature?
Having fins, gills, and scales is a common _______ for a fish
What is schema?
A child's belief that inanimate objects like stuffed animals are alive
What is animism?
We often make this judgement about someone's character when we see them make a mistake instead of blaming the situation
What is dispositional attribution?
The meaning of the acronym ADHD
What is attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder?
When some kind of treatment is given to one or more groups, researchers are likely using this research method
What is experiment?
The spinal cord and this organ form the central nervous system
What is the brain?
Differentiating foreground from background according to Gestalt psychology
What is figure-ground?
A study that follows a subject for a long period of time, maybe even their whole life
What is longitudinal study?
Comparing yourself to a beautiful and talented celebrity
What is upward social comparison?
A type of catatonia that involves being frozen in uncomfortable positions
What is stupor?
Ex. A non-experimental research study that focuses on 100 people
What is a survey?
These cells hold our neurons in place and give them nutrients
What are glial cells?
Forgetting all of your old memories
What is retrograde amnesia?
Guides and support that children might need while learning in their zone of proximal development
What is scaffolding?
What is projective test?
Chronic high blood pressure caused by persistent stress
What is hypertension?
The relationship that the Fourth of July and fireworks sales probably have as variables
What is strong positive correlation?
A part of the limbic system that regulates body temperature and controls eating and drinking
What is the hypothalamus?
Information that you remember unconsciously and don't have to regularly rehearse
What are implicit memories?
What is formal operational stage?
An ego defense mechanism wherein you take out your frustration on someone else instead of dealing with your emotions
What is displacement?
The minimum amount of time that a severe manic episode must last according to the DSM-5 definition of bipolar I
What is one week?
Demographic information helps us consider this aspect of research design
What is generalizability?
Our brain's speech and language center, may cause word salad if damaged
What is Wernicke's Area?
Remembering something more easily because you are in the same environment as when you learned it
What is context-dependent memory?
A unit of sound within a word
What is phoneme?
The description we give to our own emotions
What is cognitive label?
The first stage of general adaptation syndrome
What is alarm reaction?
This statistic measures how much data points/scores vary in relation to the mean
What is standard deviation?
Deafness that results from damage to the hearing centers in the brain
What is sensorineural deafness?
If a test has a high level of this, it measured what it was intended to measure
What is validity?
A period of time wherein young adults may explore different identities as they transition to the next phase of life
What is emerging adulthood?
Having to choose between two equally undesirable things
What is avoidance-avoidance?
The idea that we can become more resilient after experiencing trauma
What is posttraumatic growth?