Research Methods
What is correlational research?
Memory is processed here.
Hippocampus
A thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the brain's left and right hemispheres.
What is corpus callosum?
Transduction happens here in the eye.
What is the retina?
This is the second stage of the three stage memory model
What is short term memory?
Researchers include a measurement of a variable within a study.
What is operational definition?
This area of the brain stem is important in controlling breathing.
What is the medulla?
This neurotransmitter is disrupting a high school senior who starts experiencing disruptions in her movement when she cannot contract certain muscles.
What is Acetylcholine?
An individual’s ability to focus on a particular conversation in a noisy and crowded room.
What is selective attention?
A mental shortcut that people use to make quick decisions by relying on information that's most readily available to them.
What is availability heuristic?
A psychologist using this prospective might attribute anxiety or fear to a traumatic childhood event that led to unresolved conflict.
What is psychodynamic perspective?
The brain's ability to change its structure and function in response to internal or external stimuli.
What is brain plasticity (neuroplasticity)?
A network of neurons in the brainstem that controls the brain's arousal state and sleep-wake cycle.
What is the reticular activation system?
A psychological phenomenon that occurs when someone fails to notice an unexpected object or event that is in plain sight.
What is inattentional blindness?
As a child, Annie experienced a serious fall that damaged her cerebellum. This memory system would be most affected.
What is procedural memory?
These are measures of central tendency.
What are mean, mode, median?
A process that strengthens synapses in the brain, which is thought to play a role in memory formation.
What is long-term potentiation?
The concept that the ratio of the smallest noticeable change in a stimulus to the original stimulus's intensity is a constant. This means that the amount of change that is just noticeable is a constant proportion of the original stimulus.
What is Weber's Law?
People who are color blind experience deficiency in this part of the eye.
A psychological phenomenon that describes how people are more likely to recall memories that match their current mood.
What is an mood congruent memory?
A statistical process that combines data from multiple studies to answer a research question and draw new conclusions.
What is meta-analysis?
A neural pathway that controls a reflex, which is an involuntary, rapid response to a stimulus. Happens in the spinal cord.
What is a reflex arc?
A neurobiological explanation of dreaming that suggests dreams are a result of the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural activity in the brainstem during REM sleep.
What is Activation Synthesis Theory?
A school of thought that studies how people perceive the world around them as a whole, rather than as individual parts.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
Old information impedes the retrieval of new information.
What is Proactive Interference?