Social
This social psychology phenomenon describes how people are more likely to agree to a large request after first agreeing to a small one.
What is the Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon?
This research method involves an in-depth investigation of a single individual, group, or event.
What is a case study?
These neurotransmitters help relieve pain and produce feelings of pleasure and well-being.
What are endorphins?
This process occurs when sensitivity to a constant, unchanging stimulus decreases over time.
What is sensory adaptation?
This type of learning occurs when a stimulus becomes associated with a stimulus that naturally triggers a response.
What is classical conditioning?
This occurs when individuals put in less effort when working in a group than working alone.
What is social loafing?
What is naturalistic observation?
What is the medulla?
This theory of color vision proposes that the retina contains three types of cones sensitive to red, green, and blue.
What is the trichromatic theory?
In classical conditioning, this stimulus naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning.
What is the unconditioned stimulus?
This occurs when people lose self-awareness and personal responsibility in a group.
What is deindividuation?
This type of research follows the same participants over an extended period of time to observe changes.
What is a longitudinal study?
This part of the brain is responsible for language comprehension and understanding speech.
What is the Wernicke's area?
This perceptual principle involves distinguishing an object from its background.
What is figure ground?
This form of learning involves a decreased response to a repeated harmless stimulus.
What is habituation?
This group process causes members opinions to become more extreme after discussing them with like-minded individuals.
What is group polarization?
This effect occurs when participants show changes simply because they believe they are receiving treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
This network of neurons responds to changes in your environment and helps regulate alertness.
What is the reticular formation?
This sense helps maintain balance and spatial orientation by detecting head movements and position.
What is the vestibular sense?
This learning occurs when someone avoids a food after it has been associated with an illness.
What is taste aversion?
This explains why individuals are less likely to help someone in need when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
This ethical research practice involves misleading participants about the true purpose of a study.
What is deception?
This division of the autonomic nervous system prepares the body for fight or flight responses.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
These specialized cells on the tongue detect sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami flavors.
What are taste receptors?
This phenomenon occurs when repeated exposure to uncontrollable events leads individuals to stop trying to change their situation.
What is learned helplessness?