Research Methods
this is the first thing that must be received from participants in psychological study
What is informed consent?
The lobe associated with the somatosensory cortex
What is the parietal lobe?
The master gland of the endocrine system
What is the pituitary gland?
The sense that does NOT require stimuli to travel through a medium
What is vision?
The field of psychology which focuses on workplace dynamics
What is industrial-organizational (IO) psychology?
this is the ethical principle concerning protecting certain populations from exploitation
What is principle of justice/protecting vulnerable populations
Neurotransmitters enter this area before attaching to the receptor site of the next neuron's dendrites
What is the synapse?
What is ephinephrene and norepinephrine?
The afterimage effect demonstrates this theory of perception of color
What is the opponents-process theory?
Freud famously is known as the figurehead of this school of psychology
What is psychodynamic psychology?
The principle that a research hypothesis should follow which means that you should be able to find evidence that disproves the hypothesis
What is a falsifiability?
Works by latching onto a receptor site and preventing neurotransmitter attachment
What is an antagonist?
This method of studying the brain involves temporary deactivation of a select region
What is TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)?
What are binocular depth cues?
Split-brain patients demonstrate this phenomenon of the brain
What is brain lateralization?
A way to structure a study to avoid experimentor bias
What is double-blind?
A feature of both the motor and somatsensory cortex
What is contralateral control?
gland involved in maintaining energy in the body
What is the pancreas?
The reason why you stop noticing the cold pool water after a few minutes
What is sensory adaptation?
The action potential operates in this manner in terms of firing an electric signal
What is all-or-nothing?
When conclusions to a study may be incorrect due to lack of generalizability, it is a threat to this principle of research
What is external validity?
The part of the limbic system is associated with storing long-term memory
What is the hippocampus?
The theory that involves the idea that our genes determine the boundaries for which the environment decides where we fall within those boundaries
What is range of reaction?
This type of hearing loss occurs with age
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
The system of the nervous system involved in slowing heart rate and stimulating digestion
What is the parasympathetic devision of the ANS?