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Research Methods
Biological Basis
Sensation and Perception
States of Consciousness
Misc.
100
I knew it all along phenomenon.
What is hindsight bias?
100
Neurotransmitter linked to pain control.
What are endorphins?
100
Failing to see objects when our awareness is elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
100
Biological Clock.
What is circadian rhythm?
100
Pavlov's type of learning.
What is classical conditioning?
200
A statement of procedures used to define variables.
What is an operational definition?
200
Brain's ability to change.
What is plasticity?
200
Predisposing one's memory, perception, or response.
What is priming?
200
Stages 1, 2, 3, and 4.
What is NREM Sleep?
200
Hopelessness and resignation to adverse conditions.
What is learned helplessness?
300
Correlation.
What is how well on factor predicts another?
300
Aphasia.
What is impairment of language?
300
Blind spot.
What is the point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye?
300
Latent Content.
What is the underlying meaning of a dream.
300
Extrinsic motivation.
What is the desire to perform an action for a promised reward.
400
This factor is manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
400
Controls eating, drinking, body temperature and aids the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
400
Red-Green, Yellow-Blue, and Black-White.
What is the opponent process theory?
400
Reducing anxiety, but impairing judgement and memory.
What are barbiturates?
400
Tendency to recall the first and last of a list.
What is the serial positioning effect?
500
This can produce the same results.
What is a confounding variable?
500
Arouses the body and mobilizes it in stressful situations.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
Perceiving objects as unchanging.
What is perceptual constancy?
500
Alcohol.
What is a depressant?
500
Attributing the wrong source of an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.
What is source amnesia?