Final Proj
The Works Cited slide needs how many resources minimum? (One of which is the textbook!)
"The tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information that supports your preexisting beliefs, while ignoring contradictory evidence."
CONFIRMATION BIAS
In research, the experimental group is often compared against a __________ group (in which people do not receive treatment).
CONTROL
Which portion of the brain enables aggression and fear? (Hint: two lima-bean-sized neural clusters)
AMYGDALA
Vocab term: "A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind."
DREAM(S)
What are the two components of your project planning? (The Google Docs you completed already!)
PROJECT PLANNING (BRAINSTORMING) SHEET & RESOURCE DUMP (RESEARCH)
"Overestimating the accuracy of your own knowledge and judgments."
OVERCONFIDENCE (BIAS)
What are the two different types of variables?
INDEPENDENT & DEPENDENT
Which third of the brain controls some movement and transmits information that enables seeing and hearing?
MIDBRAIN
Vocab term: "All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating."
COGNITION
In addition to your presentation, what are the other two components of your project?
CLASS HANDOUT & ACTIVITY
"The tendency to favor people who belong to the same group as you."
IN-GROUP BIAS
Which type of research uses numerical data to represent degrees of a variable?
QUANTITATIVE (RESEARCH)
Which third of the brain contains brainstem structures that direct essential survival functions? (ex. breathing, sleeping, coordination, balance)
HINDBRAIN
Vocab term: "Our agreed-upon systems of spoken, written, or signed words, and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning."
LANGUAGE
Regardless of when you present, the project due date was when?
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10th
"The 'I knew it all along' phenomenon. The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that you foresaw it."
HINDSIGHT BIAS
Which type of research uses in-depth narratives as data to represent degrees of a variable?
Which third of the brain manages complex cognitive activities, sensory/associative functions, and voluntary motor activities?
FOREBRAIN
Vocab Term: "The process of getting information out of memory storage."
RETRIEVAL
"How does one's psychological predisposition influence their likelihood to join a cult?" is an example of a _________ ___________.
RESEARCH QUESTION
"Judging the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples of it come to mind (e.g., fearing airplane crashes more than car accidents because crash stories are more memorable)."
AVAILABILITY HEURISTIC
Through ______ ________, researchers give potential participants enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether or not they want to participate.
INFORMED CONSENT
"Cerebellum" means "________ ______."
LITTLE BRAIN
Vocab term: "The brain's ability to change, esp. during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience."
NEUROPLASTICITY