Recall (DOK 1)
This brain structure is responsible for fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
This learning method uses rewards and punishments to shape behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
This is a flaw in surveys that happens when people give dishonest answers.
What is response bias?
This is what you’d create to test if more sleep improves memory.
What is an experiment?
This neurotransmitter is linked to pleasure and movement.
What is dopamine?
This is the variable that the experimenter changes.
What is the independent variable?
These chemicals pass signals between neurons.
What are neurotransmitters?
This evolutionary psychology concept says behaviors that help us survive get passed on.
What is natural selection?
This brain ability helps stroke victims recover by adapting functions.
What is brain plasticity?
This process confirms research findings are consistent.
What is replication?
He is known as the father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This brain region helps with planning and decision-making.
What is the frontal lobe?
This effect causes people to change behavior just because they believe they got treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
This kind of model would show how genes and environment shape behavior.
What is a nature vs. nurture interaction model?
This bias causes researchers to only notice results that match their expectations.
What is confirmation bias?
This part of the nervous system activates the fight-or-flight response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This electrical signal travels down a neuron.
What is an action potential?
This brain structure, if damaged, would affect the formation of new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This proposal would include social media use and anxiety levels.
What is a multi-variable research design?
This in-class demo involves pairing a bell with candy to trigger salivation.
What is classical conditioning?
This research method involves studying one individual in detail.
What is a case study?
This ethical principle means participants agree to be in the study.
What is informed consent?
“Music affects mood” becomes testable when rephrased like this.
‘People who listen to upbeat music will report higher happiness scores’?
These three approaches treat anxiety differently: one with medicine, one with behavior, one with thoughts.
What are biological, behavioral, and cognitive approaches?
These studies help separate nature from nurture using identical siblings raised apart.
What are twin studies?