Conducting an Experiment
What is an educated guess to the outcome of an experiment?
What is a hypotheisis?
This part of the brain helps Coordinate movement
This famous experiment separated College students into guard and prisoners
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
These are the information processing cells in the nervous system
What are Neurons?
These are the chemical messengers sent out by glands
What are Hormones?
This is the idea that a researcher can't hurt their participants physically or mentally
What is Harm reduction/Do No Harm?
What is the Brain Stem?
This experiment looked at how people learn aggression by observing children beating up a doll.
What is the Bobo doll experiment?
This consists of the Brain and the spinal Chord
What is the Central Nervous system?
This gland regulates metabolism and appetite
What is the Thyroid?
This is when a researcher keeps the participant's identities private
What is confidentiality?
This is known as the Master Gland in the Brain
What is the Pituitary gland?
This experiment looked at self-control by seeing if babies could delay the gratification of getting a marshmallow
What is the marshmallow test?
This nervous system prepares your body for stress and activates the fight or flight response
What is the Sympathetic nervous system?
This Hormone tells the body when to go to sleep
What is Melatonin?
This is what a researcher changes in an experiment
What is an independent variable?
This part of the brain handles Concious thought
What is the Cerebrum?
This experiment looked at how people with following orders by having them deliver fake electric shocks to an actor
This Nervous sytem deals with voluntary movement and sends out Afferent and efferent signals
What is the Somatic Nervous system?
This gland produces Insulin
What is the Pancreas?
This is the idea that participants in an experiment must agree to participate in an experiment and know what they are getting into.
What is informed Consent?
These are the Male Gonads
What are Testes?
This experiment measured conformity using a test where a person had to match the length of lines
What is the Asch experiment?
This is the space between Neurons
What is the Synaptic Cleft?
This is a disorder associated with a lack of Insulin
What is diabetes?