Research & Science Practices
What ethical principle requires that participants must be told the full purpose afterward?
What is debriefing?
Which neurotransmitter is associated with movement and reward?
What is dopamine?
What type of memory lasts only a few seconds and deals with immediate sensory input?
What is sensory memory?
Who is the theorist behind the psychosocial stages of development?
Who is Erik Erikson?
What is the term for positive, motivating stress?
What is eustress?
What measure of central tendency is most affected by outliers?
What is the mean?
What brain structure is involved in forming new memories?
What is the hippocampus?
Which heuristic leads us to judge based on what most easily comes to mind?
What is the availability heuristic?
What learning type involves association between two stimuli?
What is classical conditioning?
What theory explains the body’s three-phase response to stress?
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
What type of study uses the same group of people over a long period of time?
What is longitudinal research?
What part of the nervous system controls voluntary movement?
What is the somatic nervous system?
What process involves organizing items into familiar, manageable units?
What is chunking?
What is the term for when a behavior is strengthened by removal of an aversive stimulus?
What is negative reinforcement?
What category of disorder includes phobias and panic attacks?
What are anxiety disorders?
What is the term for data collection that does not involve manipulation of variables?
What is naturalistic observation?
What endocrine gland is responsible for the "fight-or-flight" response?
What is the adrenal gland?
What is the inability to see a new use for an object called?
What is functional fixedness?
What cognitive development stage includes hypothetical reasoning?
What is the formal operational stage?
What is the term for a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression?
What is bipolar disorder?
What is the term for the smallest amount of stimulus we can detect 50% of the time?
What is the absolute threshold?
What brain imaging technique shows structure and activity using blood flow?
What is fMRI?
What model includes encoding, storage, and retrieval of memory?
What is the information-processing model?
What parenting style is both demanding and responsive?
What is authoritative parenting?
What type of therapy involves challenging irrational thoughts?
What is cognitive therapy?