Research Methods
Normative, faith, and logic questions are this type of question.
What are non-scientific questions?
This is a person's typical style of behavior and emotion.
What is a (personality) trait?
Symptoms need to be present for this amount of time to be diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder.
What is two weeks?
This is the type of memory for how to do things, like riding a bike.
What is procedural memory?
The argument that humans are born as "blank slates" believes personality is determined by this.
What is the environment/nurture?
This is the process of collecting evidence and recording observations systematically.
What is the scientific method?
This is the altering of behavior so it matches the norms of a group.
What is conformity?
This is the name of the disorder that involves intense terror and psychological arousal.
What is panic disorder?
An electric shock is an example of this type of stimulus in classical conditioning.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
This connects the cerebral hemispheres to each other.
What is the corpus callosum?
This is the manipulated variable, like amount of drug taken.
What is the independent variable?
This is the name for what can happen when a large group of people are around when someone gets hurt and nobody calls for help.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
This therapy is thought to be especially beneficial for grief, addiction, and social anxiety.
What is a group therapy?
This occurs when memories impede the recollection of other memories, like when learning French impairs Spanish memories.
What is interference?
Individuals who are raised in cultures with cows and who do not become lactose intolerant demonstrate this principle of nature-nurture.
What is co-evolution?
This is the process of selecting research participants by chance from the population.
What is random sampling?
This is the name of the theory that consists of the structures id, ego, and superego.
This type of drug is used to treat many anxiety disorders.
What are SSRIs?
This is the name for learning complex behavior through a step-by-step process, especially in animal training.
What is shaping?
These are the three structures of the brain stem.
What is the medulla, pons, and midbrain?
This does not prove causation.
What is correlation?
This is the name for when a person tries to do well on a task, but is reminded of some negative attribute related to their group.
What is stereotype threat?
Flat affect, the absence of typical emotional expression, is a _______ symptom of schizophrenia.
What is negative?
Making your child do extra chores after fighting with their younger sibling is an example of...
What is positive punishment?
This lobe is responsible for processing somatosensory information.