Research Methods
The Brain
Sensation and Perception
Learning
Social Psychology
100

Research Method that uses controlled variables

What is experiment?

100

The part of the brain used for balance.                                            

What is CEREBELLUM?

100

the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response

What is PRIMING?

100

When learning something becomes an involuntary and automatic reaction.

What is Classical Conditioning?

100

A strategy to get someone to agree to doing something is to ask them to do a small favor before a bigger one.

What is The door phenomenon?

200

A study based on unethical experiments/events

What is Case Study?

200

The part of the brain used for comprehending language.

What is Broca's area?

200


A phenonmenon in which people prefer similar continuous patterns as opposed to distrupted ones.


What is Continuity?


200

a stimulus that naturally and automatically elicits a specific response without any prior learning or conditioning

What is unconditions stimulus?

200
Ideas on a specific group of people 




















Stereotype

What is Stereotype?


300

A statistical relationship between two variables.

What is Corralation?

300

24-hour pattern

What is circadian rhythm?

300

This condition occurs when the hair cells in someone's cochlea are damaged.

What is Nerve Deafness?

300

After repeated exposure to uncontrollable stressful events, things stop escaping those situations, even when they can

What is learned helplessness?

300

The tendency for people not to act in an emergency when there are others around            

What is The bystander effect?

400

A list of questions aimed at extracting specific data from a particular group of people.

What is Survay?

400

What are the three main sections of the brain?

What is Hindbrain, midbrain, forebrain?

400

The thing that keeps track of where our body is in space

What is vestibular?

400

The experiment that illistrated that children learn by seeing others display aggression

What is The Bandura BoBo doll study?

400

The tendency for people to go along with the views or actions of others  

What is Confomity?

500

The explanation of an experiment that makes sure that all participants are informed

What is Debrief?

500

Controls metabolic rate

What is thyroid gland?

500

A form of perception in which objects moving closer to you appear to be bigger

What is Looming?

500

a long-lasting change in behavior resulting from experience

What is LEARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

500

The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

What is Scapegoat theory?