All About Experiments
Descriptive & Correlational Methods
Stress
Stress: Portrait of a Killer
Potpourri
100
The assignment of participants to experimental or control groups
What is random assignment?
pg 38
100
An in depth look at a single individual
What is a case study?
pg 31
100
Trey wants to drive his father's car. When he asks, he is told that he is too young (15 years old). The stress he feels as a result of having his refused is called ______.
What is frustration?
100
According to the research presented in the documentary, stress hormones, heart rate, and blood pressure are related to one's position in this
What is the social hierarchy?
100
This term refers to stress that can occur in conjunction with positive life events
What is eustress?
200
A carefully regulated procedure in which the researcher manipulates one or more variables that are believed to influence some other variable?
What is an experiment?
pg 37
200
You can use this to collect scientific data quickly, however, remember that people do not always tell the truth
What is a survey or questionnaire?
pg 31
200
According to the textbook, the process of being torn in two or more directions at the same time by opposing motives is called this
What is conflict?
200
The first physical ailment that was believed to be caused by stress was this
What are ulcers?
200
Stress can unravel these DNA strands
What are telomeres?
300
This type of variable is the variable the researcher is measuring
The DV or dependent variable
300
This type of research allows a scientist to examine the relationship between variables
What is correlational research?
300
Benny is one of the most laid-back people around. His attitude is to take everything in stride "one day at a time." He would rather go fishing and enjoy the scenery than work overtime at the office. Benny's approach to life is best described as typical of this type of personality
a) Type A
b) Type B
c) internal
d) external
What is a type B personality
300
Stress makes it more likely for someone to put on weight here
What is around the belly and/or major organs
300
Byron is feeling very stressed about repeated problems with his college roommates about keeping their apartment clean as well as fears about all of the crime in his neighborhood. The sources of his stress would be best classified as this
What are daily hassles?
400
The influence of the experimenter's expectations on the outcome of the research
What is experimenter bias?
400
This statistic describes the direction and strength of the relationship between two variables
What is a correlation coefficient?
400
Regina feels that she cannot survive without the approval of others. Psychologist Albert Ellis would consider this a/an _____belief
What is an irrational belief?
400
Individuals born during this particular event in time were more likely to have physical and psychological illnesses later in life. This led scientists to believe that a fetus or an infant can be affected by stress across their lifetime.
What is the dutch hunger winter?
400
Auto emissions, cigarette smoke, and industrial smog are examples of these
What are ambient/environmental stressors?
500
A change in a participant's illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect, rather than the actual treatment
What is the placebo effect?
pg 43
500
Tom is on a strict diet when he sees the most delicious-looking double chocolate cheesecake he has ever seen. Part of him really wants to devour the whole cake, but another part of him can't stop thinking about all the calories in the cake. The type of conflict Tom is experiencing is called a/an ______ conflict.
What is an approach-avoidance conflict?
500
Stressed rats will be more likely to have this
What are fewer brain cells or neuronal connections?
500
These bacteria can live in the digestive tract. Chronic stress may weaken one's immune system. Over time, this may produce ulcers, in the lining of one's stomach or the upper part of the small intestine
What are Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)?