Let Me Do Some Research
Study of a cohort over many years.
Longitudinal study
The brain and spinal cord
Central Nervous System CNS
He designed a test to help measure mental age. Wanted to held kids be successful in school.
Binet
Process of physical energy into electrical-chemical energy the brain can understand
Transduction
Gestalt
Could these results apply to a larger population?
Generalization
A man jumps out from behind a tree and scares Jan. Her heart rate increases, her pupil dilates and she is on full fight or flight. This nervous system kicked this on...
Sympathetic nervous system
Believes in 8 (or 9) types of intelligence.
Gardener
Process where the lens changes shape to bend light to hit the back of the eye
Accomodation
Minimum stimulation needed to detect something 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
How population is divided into group in an experiment.
Random assignment
Jan realizes a man who scared her was chasing his dog. Her heart rate decreases and she starts to relax. This system calms her down.
Parasympathetic NS
Using research to identify clusters of related items
Factor analysis
The kid sitting next to you smells pretty bad, but after a while you don't notice it anymore.
Sensory adaptation
We don't see that gorilla in the background because we are looking at the basketball players.
Inattentional blindness
Using the results of many studies.
Meta-analysis
When a neuron fires and an electrical impulse travels down an axon.
Action Potential
Test that measured learned knowledge
Achievement
Cells in the retina that "see" in the dark and in our peripheral vision.
Rods
We watch a scary movie, and then hear noise in the backyard and think it is a killer on the loose!
Priming
Researcher says "If I can repeat a study and get similar results, then I know they are valid."
Replication
Time when the neuron cannot fire again.
Refractory period
IQ tests have increased over the last 100 years
Flynn Effect
Location of transduction in the ear
The cochlea
Color constancy