Super PSYCHed
what are the three philosophical debates of psychology
free will vs determinism, mind-brain problem, nature vs. nurture
this lobe deals with processing visual representation
occipital lobe
this type of research involves practical problems
applied research
this kind of procedure makes it so that the participants in a study have an equal likelihood of being put into their experiment group
random assignment
this structure on the neuron increases the speed of action potentials
myelin sheath
this group in an experiment receives a treatment that is like the experimental treatment but should produce no effects
placebo group
this lobe deals with auditory processing
temporal lobe
this type of sample studies people from different cultures
cross-cultural sample
in this kind of study, both the participants and the experimenters are unaware of the treatment the participants are receiving
double-blind study
the two main categories of neurotransmitters are ______ and _______
inhibitory and excitatory
the autonomic nervous system can be broken down into two more categories: the ______ and ________
DCBA tells us the direction of the ________
action potential
this type of population sample is easy to get, but difficult to generalize to the whole population
convenience sample
cues that tell participants what is expected of them and what the experimenter hopes to find
demand characteristics
this illegal stimulant works by mimicking dopamine binding to dopamine receptors
cocaine
bobby recently hit his head super hard. the damage has caused him issues with spatial processing and motor control. what lobe might have been damaged?
parietal lobe
how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work
epigenetics
- 1 or + 1
the idea that a psychological hypothesis can be proven wrong through an experiment
falsifiability
this tells us that action potentials either happen or they do not and the strength of the action potentials do not vary
all or none law
this nervous system is associated with rest and digest
parasympathetic nervous system
the right hemisphere of the brain controls
the left side of the body
if the p is less than _____, the results of the study are statistically significant
0.05
HARKing stands for
hypothesizing after results are known
the peripheral nervous system can be broken down into two categories: the _________ and the _________
autonomic nervous system and somatic nervous system