Social Psych
If someone cuts me off on the highway and I assume they are a jerk, I'm possibly committing this error.
The fundamental attribution error
What is the name of the variable that is measured in a study?
The dependent variable.
This experiment measured the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform.
Arch's Conformity Experiment.
The Kitty Genovese story is an example of what phenomon in psychology?
The bystander effect
The Cerebral Cortex
I know smoking is bad but I smoke anyway and say things like, "I smoke to relieve stress" or "I only smoke on the weekends." I'm demonstrating...
Cognitive Dissonance
What is the name of the variable that is manipulated or categorized by the researcher/s in a study?
Independent variable
True or False. Milgram's experiment would have likely worked the same if the learner was in the same room as the teacher.
False. A key part of this experiment was the fact that the victim was depersonalized or at a distance.
Name three neurotransmitters that we learned about in class.
Acetylcholine, Dopamine, Serotonin, Noreprinephrine, GABA, Glutamate, Endorphins
This is a phenomenon you may have experienced when working on a group project for school.
Social loafing
What is the name given to a variable that might affect the dependent variable, but is not what the researchers are interested in studying?
Extraneous or confounding variable.
This man had a large tube enter his head causing damage to his frontal lobe and helping us learn more about the function of the brain.
Phineas Gage
Name the two main parts of the Central Nervous System.
Brain and Spinal Cord
The idea that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people represents what phenomenon.
Just-world phenomenon
This type of study is an in depth look at a single person or small group.
Case study
In this study, the prinicipal investigator immersed himself too far into the study that he was unable to see the singificant issues that arose.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Selecting participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing nay preexisting differences between the groups is called:
Random Assignment
Name each of the lobes and identify where they are located on your head.
Frontal (forehead), Pareital (top of head), Occipital (back of head), Temporal (side of head)
If you get robbed walking home from work and you think that you should have known that it was going to happen, you are engaging in what behavior?
Hindsight bias
A common phrase in psychology is that correlation does not mean what?
Causation
The visual cliff was thought to measure fear but in later studies it appeared to measure this instead.
Depth perception
What is REM sleep and what happens during it?
Rapid eye movement sleep or paradoxical sleep where your eyes dart around and the motor cortex is active.
This large band of neural fibers connects both brain hemispheres and carries messages between them.
Corpus Callosum