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Ullsperger et al. (2005) used a larger stimulus set in their flanker experiment in order to eliminate this confound; however, they created a different confound.

What are feature repetitions and contingency learning confounds?

100

This type of t-test is used to determine whether a difference between two means is significant in a within-subjects design

What is a paired t-test?

100

This step in preprocessing temporally aligns the data from different slices

What is slice timing?

100

The type of fMRI analysis links different patterns of activity across voxels to different conditions

What is multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA)?

100

Submitting a paper for a class than you already submitted in another class can be consider this.

What is self-plagiarism?

200

Activation in which brain region predicts the call volume of advertisements for smoking cessation?

What is the medial prefrontal cortex?

200

This quantity indexes the degree to which individual sample means vary around the group mean 

What is the standard deviation?

200

This is necessary to interpret the difference between two selective average BOLD responses in rapid-event related designs

What is equating the overlap?

200

This type of rapid fMRI design allows one to (1) randomize the order of different conditions AND (2) estimate the magnitude of each condition’s BOLD response relative to a low-level baseline

What is a jittered, event-related design?

200
Deception is warranted in research under these conditions.
What is the study could not be done without and the benefits outweigh risks?
300

Botvinick et al. (1999) argue that lower ACC activity on ___ trials than on ___ trials reflects lower conflict.

What are iI trials and cI trials?

300

What is the most stringent method of correcting for multiple comparisons?

What is the Bonferroni correction?

300

Name one problem with using selective averaging to analyze fMRI data.

What is 1) unable to correct for or model noise; and what is 2) must equate the overlap?

300

This type of experimental design can be used to test whether the assumption of pure insertion is violated.

What is factorial design?

300
What study led to the creation of the Belmont Report?
What is the Tuskegee syphilis study?
400

According to the Colcombe et al. (2004), exercise had this effect on ACC activity during a flanker task.

What is reduced?

400

RESELs are the unit analysis for this method of correcting for multiple comparisons

What is Gaussian random field theory?

400

Researchers use this method of correcting for multiple comparisons is used when they focus on a specific area of the brain

What is region of interest (ROI) analysis?

400

In this type of fMRI design, it is difficult to estimate the baseline.

What is a rapid, unjittered event-related design?

400
Name 2 things that a researcher could do to protect the confidentiality of subjects’ data?
What is use ID codes, password protect documents, lock files, get a CoC?
500
Kerns et al. (2004) found that activity in these 2 brain regions was related to behavioral adjustments on the Stroop task.
What is the ACC and PFC?
500

As the statistical threshold decreases, this type of error increases

What is Type I error?

500

What type of fMRI design allows one to avoid making the assumption of pure insertion?

What is a parametric design?

500

If a researcher wants to conduct a fMRI study of the Stroop task, what would be the best design?

What is event-related?

500
Name 3 things that should be in an informed consent document
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