Create an Example
Create an example for when the brain may have plasticity.
When a young girl had her corpus callosum severed, she was able to recover and learn to live despite her hemispheres being separated.
The type of processing that happens when our brains give us information about what we are perceiving based on our expectations and past knowledge.
What is top-down processing?
A chemical substance which is released into other neurons to send messages to the brain.
What is a neurotransmitter?
The variable which is the result of the experiment, and dependent on another variable which was manipulated.
What is the dependent variable?
The scientific observation of the human mind, behavior, and emotions.
What is psychology?
Create an example of a phenotype.
A person has hair that becomes lighter when it is summertime due to the sun.
The part of your eye which senses light and your peripheral vision
What are rods?
The part of a neuron which receives a neurotransmitter.
What is a dendrite?
The type of studies which include surveys, interviews, and naturalistic observation.
What are descriptive studies?
What is the biological, psychological, and social/environmental factors?
Create an example of a positive correlation.
When the heat gets higher, more ice cream is sold.
The type of pain that occurs when someone is missing a limb, and yet can still feel pain.
What is phantom limb?
The lobe of your brain which is responsible for thinking and cognitive skills, as well as your personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
The way we define and measure a specific aspect or variable in an experiment.
What is an operational definition?
The effect that happens when you are unable to stop autoomatic processes, such as having a difficult time saying the color of a word instead of reading it.
What is the Stroop Effect?
Create an example of behaviorism.
When a child get candy for getting a good grade on a test, she is more likely to continue to study in order to get a good grade on her next tests.
The part of the ear which is responsible for actually hearing and the last stop in a sound waves journey.
What is the inner ear?
The part of your nervous system which makes you alert and aroused when something dangerous happens.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Name the three traits every psychologist must have.
What is curiosity, humbleness, and skeptical?
The part of the eye which transmits information from the eye to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
Create an example of an experiment with an independent variable and a dependent variable.
Someone wants to test whether coffee affects a persons speed. They give one group coffee and the other water, and then challenge them to a race. The independent variable is the coffee, and the dependent variable is the speed of the person.
The phrase that was given to explain how we group things up based on how close they are to each other.
What is the gestalt principle of proximity?
The part of your brain which is most known for learning and encoding memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The bias that happens when you look back and believe an unpredictable event was easily predictable.
What is the hindsight bias?
Name at least three parts of things you must do to ensure your experiment is ethical.
What is informed consent, debriefing,confidentiality, deception, getting approval from the APA board, etc.