In this type of a procedure, neither the participants nor the researcher giving the treatment knows which group is receiving which treatment.
What is a double - blind procedure?
This part of our brain stem is crucial for heart rate and breathing.
What is the medulla?
This refers to the idea that we only focus on a small part of what is going on around us at a given moment.
What is selective attention?
During this second stage of prenatal development, the baby begins crucial organ development and lasts roughly from week 3 to week 8.
What is the embryonic stage?
This is one of the countrys that Mr. Meyaard has spent at least than 2 days in outside of the United States.
What is South Africa, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Israel, & Dominican Republic?
The most commonly occurring data point is called this.
What is the mode?
These types of neurons travel out of the brain and to various body parts when our brain tells a body part to move.
What are motor (efferent) neurons?
This style of problem solving acts as a shortcut. It is quick but prone to error.
What is a heuristic?
The culturally preferred timing of social events is referred to as this.
What is social clock?
This popular novel written by Paulo Coelho was the most recent book Mr. Meyaard finished reading.
What is "The Alchemist"?
One important part of today's ethical code includes the researchers obtaining this prior to a subject being a part of their study.
What is informed consent?
The endocrine system uses these messengers which are released by various glands throughout the body.
What are hormones?
A momentary auditory memory, it lasts roughly 3 - 4 seconds.
What is echoic memory?
One of Erikson's stage of development during which we develop a self confidence in our abilities or an inferiority complex. Occurs between 6 years old up to puberty.
What is competence vs. inferiority?
This actor played J. Robert Oppenheimer in the 2023 biographical drama film "Oppenheimer".
Who is Cillian Murphy?
This percentage of the data falls within 2 standard deviations of the mean in a normal curve.
What is 95%?
This hemisphere tends to be more emotional, creative, non - verbal, and adventurous.
What is the right hemisphere?
Try touching two pencils together with one eye closed and you will notice the usefulness of this binocular depth cue.
A parenting style considered "too soft" by psychologists.
What is permissive?
This is the most commonly used password in the world.
What is 123456?
A graph that shows two distinct modes or peaks in the data can be described as this type of distribution.
What is a bimodal distribution?
The two different part of the peripheral nervous system are referred to this and this.
What are the autonomic and somatic?
Did this really happen or did I dream it? Did I read that in a book or see it in a movie? Asking these types of questions demonstrate this classic memory error.
What is source amnesia?
This is the number of morphemes in the word "Desirability".
What is 3?
desire + able + ity
This is precisely what Mr. Meyaard had for breakfast this morning.
Probably one of the following:
4 scrambled eggs with feta cheese & hot sauce
4 over easy eggs with parmesan cheese & hot sauce