Cognitive
This is the first stage in the multi-store memory model in which outside stimuli/information is captured. It precedes both the short-term and long-term memory stores.
What is the Sensory Buffer (Memory Store)?
These are chemical messengers in our body's endocrine system. They are released into and travel through the bloodstream.
What are Hormones?
A _______ group is defined as a collection of individuals who share a core set of beliefs and values while a _______ group is defined as a collection of individuals who share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity.
What are a Cultural Group (1) and a Social Group (2)?
Some studies lack the ability for researchers to add appropriate controls. However, this type of experiment also carries the highest ecological validity.
What is a Natural Experiment?
A matched-pairs design helps to eliminate this common issue in experimental research.
What is Participant Variability?
Schemas are mental representations that organize our knowledge, beliefs, and expectations. However, the limitation of schemas, and schema theory as a whole, is that they are simply referred to as this.
What is a Theoretical Construct?
When analyzing twin studies, a dizygotic (DZ) twin, on average, shares this fraction of their genotype with their sibling.
What is One-Half (50%)?
Socialization is the process of becoming a member of a social group. As a young boy, John regularly socializes with his family, his teacher, and his friends at school. This degree of socialization often encompasses learning the basic rules and norms of living in a group.
What is Primary Socialization?
To overcome researcher bias, psychologists often employ this trick to prevent both participants and experimenters from inferring certain demand characteristics.
This is a sampling method that involves participants referring other people to take part in the study. As a result, it is not always a random and representative sample.
What is Snowball Sampling?
This is the cognitive process of choosing between given alternatives or making a choice between available options.
Hormones can only influence cells that have receptors for a particular hormone. These cells have this special name.
What is a Target Cell?
What is Discriminating (Discrimination)?
This ethical guideline is often scrutinized for participants of a certain age group.
What is Informed Consent?
If this act is minor in nature, does not result in extreme psychological distress, and is followed by a full debriefing, then it may be employed in a psychological study.
What is Deception?
These are the two factors that dictate the strength and quality of an individual's flashbulb memory.
What is a Surprise Factor and Personal Consequentiality?
Dopamine and Glutamate are ________ neurotransmitters while Serotonin is a ________ neurotransmitter.
What are Excitatory (1) and Inhibitory (2)?
With reference to Berry's Model of Acculturation, this acculturation strategy emerges when individuals reject both their ethnic culture and the dominant host culture.
What is Marginalization?
This method is often employed in biological studies that analyze the genetic heritability of certain behaviors. This method was used in Cecile Lubrano Bethelier et al. when analyzing obesity.
What is a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS)?
There are two methods used to study genetic similarity in the biological approach. These methods, however, should not be used on a methods question on the IB exam.
What are Twin and Adoption Studies?
Jack is a father who believes that all dogs are harmful. Once, while scouring through social media, Jack comes across a video of a dog viciously attacking a child. He shows this to his son who wants a pet dog. Jack is exhibiting this bias.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This is the idea phenomenon when a brain area A assumes the functions of brain rea Y, for example, due to injury.
What is Cortical Remapping?
Stereotypes can be formed through a variety of cognitive mechanisms. A certain mechanism relies on the ability for one to infer a relationship between two statistically infrequent events to co-occur. As illustrated by Hamilton and Gifford, this mechanism results in the formation of stereotypes.
What is Illusory Correlation?
This limitation is a bias that is common in sociocultural research because it relies extensively on participant self-reported data.
What is Social Desirability Bias?
This brain scan provides perfect temporal resolution but poor spatial resolution. It is only good for detecting changes in the overall patterns of brain activity.
What is an Electroencephalography (EEG)?