Brain Parts
This part of the brain is responsible for basic life functions like heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
A type of study where neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving the treatment.
What is a double-blind procedure?
Pavlov is best known for studying this type of learning.
What is classical conditioning?
Piaget's first stage of cognitive development, from birth to 2 years.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The tendency for people to comply with a request after first agreeing to a smaller request.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
The "sensory switchboard" of the brain that relays messages to the cortex.
What is the thalamus?
This type of correlation means that as one variable increases, the other decreases.
What is a negative correlation?
A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response.
What is an unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?
The parenting style that is somewhere between permissive and authoritarian
What is authoritative?
When people perform better on simple tasks in the presence of others.
What is social facilitation?
This structure helps coordinate voluntary movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
A measure of how well a test or experiment measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
Learning based on consequences like rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
Harlow’s monkey study showed the importance of this in attachment.
What is contact comfort?
The theory that we act to reduce discomfort when our thoughts and actions are inconsistent.
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
The part of the brain involved in forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The reappearance of a conditioned response after a rest period.
What is spontaneous recovery?
The concept that objects continue to exist even when they are not visible.
What is object permanence?
The phenomenon where individuals exert less effort in a group task.
What is social loafing?
The area in the frontal lobe responsible for speech production.
What is Broca's area?
This term refers to the likelihood that the results of a study occurred by chance.
What is statistical significance?
Adding something unpleasant to decrease a behavior is called this.
What is positive punishment?
Kohlberg’s highest level of moral reasoning, involving universal ethical principles.
What is postconventional morality?
The loss of self-awareness in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
What is deindividuation?