This ion rushes into the neuron during an action potential.
What is sodium?
100
Behaviorists study and try to change people's and animal's behaviors. They do not think you should research these.
What are thoughts
100
This variable is purposefully changed or manipulated by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
100
A scientific theory must be this.
What is testable?
100
Language is thought to be located in this side of the brain.
What is the left hemisphere?
200
This principle states that depending on the amount of stimulation, an action potential will or will not happen. There is no in-between.
What is the all-or-none principle.
200
This perspective is interested in how individuals are unique, their freedom and their potential personal growth.
What is the humanistic viewpoint?
200
This definition explains exactly how each variable is measured.
What is the operational definition?
200
Psychologists complete their training through graduate school, whereas psychiatrists complete their training through this institution.
What is medical school?
200
This regulates emotion, memory and motivation.
What is the limbic system?
300
During this time, a neuron will not have another action potential, no matter what.
What is the absolute refractory period?
300
Estimating the probability of an event based on your experience with past similar events is known as this.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
300
Experimenters use this strategy to make sure subjects in each condition are basically even in terms of things like intelligence and age, also known as subject variables.
What is random assignment?
300
These are the three measurements of central tendency.
What are mean, median and mode?
300
This tool monitors and records electrical brain activity over time.
What is an electroencephalograph or EEG?
400
The name given to something that mimics the actions of a neurotransmitter in the brain.
What is an agonist?
400
The belief that two events occurring together causally is known as this.
What is the illusory correlation?
400
Experimenters must be careful about how they ask about or measure sensitive things like a persons level racism, otherwise they won't get an honest answer due to this.
What is social desirability bias?
400
Studying only White, middle class males ignores this important context of research.
What is the sociocultural/sociohistorical context?
400
This system conserves energy through actions like slowing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
500
Opiates mimic the behavior of this neurotransmitter.
What are endorphins?
500
Double-blind studies do not let the experimenter know which is the control group and which is the experimental group to prevent this.
What is experimenter bias?
500
This number, ranging from -1 to 1, tells you how strongly two variables are related to each other.
What is the correlation coefficient?
500
If a finding in an experiment is most likely not due to chance, we say the finding is this.
What is statistically significant?
500
These cells are special in that they activate not only when you do a specific behaviors, but also when watching someone else do that behavior.