Research Methods/Data Interpretation
An in-depth, detailed investigation of a single individual or group to gather qualitative data to understand complex behaviors or principles.
What is a case study?
Includes the brain and the spinal cord, and is the body's processing center.
What is the central nervous system?
A type of psychoactive drug that reduce neural activity and slow down bodily functions by affecting the CNS. They are commonly known as "downers".
What is a depressant?
The lobe of the cerebral cortex that is located at the back of the head and is responsible for interpreting visual input.
What is the occipital lobe?
The part of the ear that is responsible for maintaining balance.
What is the semicircular canals?
Examines the statistical relationship between two or more variables, measuring how they change together without the researcher manipulating any of them.
What is correlational research?
The nervous system that includes the somatic and autonomic nervous system
What is the peripheral nervous system?
A brief, rapid electrical impulse neurons use to communicate, firing down the axon like an "all or nothing" signal when a threshold is reached.
What is an action potential?
Part of the midbrain that is the main sensory switchboard for all senses except smell.
What is the thalamus?
This neurotransmitter is known as the body's natural pain killer.
What are endorphins?
Collects data from a diverse group at a single moment in time, acting as a "snapshot" to see how variables differ across these groups.
What is a cross-sectional study?
The nervous system responsible for the "Fight or Flight" response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
A substance that binds to receptor sites on neurons and mimics or enhances the effects of a natural neurotransmitter.
What is an agonist?
A part of the midbrain that regulates basic drives of the "Four F's": feeding, fighting, fleeing, fornication
What is the hypothalamus?
The biological clock that operates in human beings to adjust their functioning to night-and-day periodicity
What is the circadian rhythm?
A research method that follows the same group of participants over an extended period, allowing researchers to observe and analyze changes and trends over time.
What is a longitudinal study?
Heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and digestion are all functions in this system.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
A type of drug that leads to no activation and inhibits the actions of neurotransmitters. Thorazine limits how much dopamine enters the synapse.
What is a antagonist?
What is the medulla oblongata?
Alzheimer's disease is closely associated with this neurotransmitter.
What is Acetylcholine (ACh)?
A technique used to combine and analyze the results from multiple independent studies on the same topic.
What is meta-analysis?
Communicates sensory information to the central nervous system
What is the somatic sensory neurons?
Neurotransmitters not absorbed by the receiving neurons, drift away are broken down by enzymes or are reabsorbed by the sending neuron
What is repuptake?
Part of the brainstem that manages vital functions like sleep, breathing, balance and facial expressions.
What is the pons?
The process of external stimuli becoming perceptions, thoughts, and emotions
What is transduction?