Psych
This is the action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information.
Observation
This is the tendency to search for information that confirms a preconception.
Confirmation Bias
This lobe is responsible for processing somatosensory (touch, temperature, pain) information, Orientation in space
Parietal
A focus on the conditions under which a change in behavior/learning occurs.
Conditioning
A research technique that questions a sample of people to collect information about their attitudes or behaviors.
Surveys
The participants in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable.
Experimental Group
The founder of modern day Psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
This Lobe is responsible for Higher Order thinking skills (abstract reasoning, problem-solving, organization), Voluntary Movement, and Personality
Frontal
A previously neutral stimulus that gains the power to cause a response.
Conditioned Stimulus
The process of actively storing the units of information that have been encoded.
Storing
A sample that fairly represents a population because each member of the population has an equal chance of being included.
Random Sample
An inactive substance or condition used to control for confounding variables.
Placebo
This receives sensory information from all over the body (brain, sense organs, spinal cord) and uses it to coordinate fine muscle movements (balance, posture)
Cerebellum
Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with a desirable event or state.
Positive Reinforcement
WILD CARD
Choose any team in the room. Everyone on that team has to either A) Do 15 pushups each OR B) Give you all their points.
The variable that the researcher will actively manipulate and if the hypothesis is correct, that will cause a change in the dependent variable.
Independent Variable
A testable prediction about the outcome of research.
Hypothesis
This lobe is responsible for receiving and processing auditory (heard) information, Facial recognition, and Understanding language (left side only)
Temporal
A response which is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
Classical Conditioning
This lobe is responsibe for interpretation and processing of visual information.
Occipital
A research method that follows the same group of individuals over a long period of time.
Longitudinal Study
A research method that compares people of different ages at one time.
Cross-Sectional Study
This controls automatic functions (breathing, swallowing, regulating heart rate, sleep and blood pressure)
Brainstem
Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with the removal of an undesirable event or state.
Negative Reinforcement
A mental grouping based on shared similarity.
Concept