Neurotransmission
The part of the neuron that receives the message initially.
What is the dendrite?
The "knew it all along" flaw of research.
What is hindsight bias?
The brain part that connects the two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
The part of the brain that deals with the production of speech.
What is Broca's Area?
What is the myelin sheath?
If I'm studying whether adding ice to water leads people to drink more water, the independent variable is:
The part of the brain that monitors touch sensations for each body part.
What is the somatosensory cortex? Half points for parietal lobe.
What is the biological perspective?
The part of the neuron that determines if the threshold is met.
What is the axon hillock?
When in resting potential, the axon is _________________. (polarized or depolarized)
What is polarized?
List the three descriptive methods.
What are naturalistic observations, surveys, and case studies?
Part of the brain that deals with digestion, body temperature, and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus?
Explaining a person's behavior by viewing the person's goals for the future.
What is the humanistic perspective?
The process of the sending neuron reabsorbing unused neurotransmitters in the synapse.
What is reuptake?
These carry the neurotransmitters into the synapse.
What are the vesicles?
I'm adding five minutes of DEAR time to each class and ensuring that students are reading age appropriate material in order to see the impact on writing skills, as based on a writing test. What are my operational definitions? Give two.
Five minutes, level of age appropriateness, writing test construction, etc.
The part of the brainstem that regulates alertness and arousal.
What is the reticular formation (RAS)?
Evaluating how a person problem solves and views a situation.
What is the cognitive perspective?
The reason an experiment is different from descriptive methods.
What is - its manipulation of variables? Searching for cause and effect?
After firing, there is a period in which the neuron cannot fire again. This is called the:
What is the refractory period?
I'm doing a study on how the length of a class period impacts student engagement. What would be some confounding variables? List two.
The four lobes.
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes?
Explaining someone's relationship choices based on how likely they are to bear children.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
A study is comparing listening to Taylor Swift with mood. The research method used is:
What is a correlational method?