Research
In an experiment, the variable that is manipulated or assigned
What is the IV?
Part of the neuron that receives the NT
What are dendrites?
Researcher who showed that monkeys preferred cloth mother and that touch was an important part of attachment
Who is Harry Harlow?
Lobe where the sensory cortex is located
What is parietal?
Stage of sleep where dreams are most likely to occur
What is REM?
Smalled unit of language with meaning
What is a morpheme?
Golden ticket population for Nature-Nurture studies?
Who are twins and adopted kids?
Flaws in the research design are known as
What are confounding variables?
When research is consistent and produces consistent results
What is reliability?
Division of the autonomic NS that calms our body - lowers heart rate and BP, allows for digestion, etc
What is the parasympathetic?
According to Baumrind, demanding, strict parents who show little affection
Who are authoritarian parents?
The place where the optic nerve exists the eye causes this
What is the blind spot?
Cocaine and crack are examples of this class of drugs
What are stimulants?
Whorf's theory that language binds or limits thought
What is linguistic determinism (relativity)?
Father of psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Experimental group that gets nothing special and is used as a basis for comparison
What is the control group?
3 measures of central tendency
What are the mean, median, and the mode?
The pineal, pituitary, and adrenal glands are part of this system
What is the endocrine system?
Someone who decided right and wrong based on others' actions is at this level of Kohlberg's development
What is conventional?
If Johnny stares at a blue spot for a long time and looks away, he will likely see a flash of
What is yellow? (after image)
Painful experiece associated with termination of a drug
What is withdrawal?
Rules that govern where words are placed in a sentence
What is syntax?
The benefit of a cross sectional study
What is time/efficiency (it's quick and cheap)?
Deciding exactly how to measure your variables is known as
What is an operational definition?
Having a random/representative sample allows me to do this with my findings
What is generalize?
Damage to the medulla will cause
What is death?
Konrad Lorenz's geese and "Genie" both demonstarted this phenomenon
What is critical period?
2 binocular cues of depth perception (name one)
What are convergence and retinal disparity?
The body's roughly 24 hour biological clock
What is the circadian rhythm?
John is an ardent supporter of tarrifs and seeks out economist reports that argue in line with his views
What is confirmation bias?
Amplitude determines _______ for vision and _______ for hearing
What is brightness and loudness?
An in depth, detailed study of 1 person or unit is
What is a case study?
This control guarantees that my experimental and control groups are relatively equal
What is random assignment?
The corpus callosum may be severed to treat
What are epileptic seizures?
Piaget's stage where a child engages in pretend play, is egocentric, and language explodes
What is preoperational?
The JND is proportional to the size of the original stimulus - my music is really loud and I need a big change to notice
What is Weber's Law?
Many with this problem have found hypnosis to be an effective treatment
What is pain?
Solving a maze by going to the finish line and figuring out the process by working backwards
What is means end technique?
The formula for standard deviation
What is the square root of the variance?
A fake participant in a study often used as a form of deception
Who is a confederate?
The statistical variable that represents correlation coefficient
What is r?
Cells that come alive at night and clean out the brains toxins while we sleep
What are glial cells?
Erikson's old age stage - looking back on your life
What is integrity V. despair?
Where sensation stops and perception begins (we convert external energy in the environment into neural impulses)
What is transduction?
The least common sleep disorder; treated with meds
What is narcolepsy?
Researcher who believed in the LAD and the nature influence of language
Whow is Noam Chomsky?
The mean will be higher than the median if the distribution is
What is positively skewed?
The committee at a university that previews research proposals for ethical considerations
What is the IRB?