Vocab 1
both researcher and participants are unaware of who has placebo and who has treatment
what is a double- blind study?
a set of expected behaviors for a male or female
What is a gender role?
our awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is consciousness?
behaviour that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus
what is respondent behaviour?
its easiest if the group agrees
what is groupthink?
tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have for seen it. ("i knew it all along¨)
what is hindsight bias?
twins who develop from separate eggs
what are fraternal twins?
recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
what is insomnia?
the reappearance after a rest period of an extinguished conditioned response
what is spontaneous recovery?
less hard work with group work
what is social loafing?
assigning control and experimental groups by chance, minimizing preexisting differences
what is random assignment?
every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us
what is environment?
a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks
what is narcolepsy?
an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behaviour toward closer and closer approximations of a desired goal
what is shaping?
behaviour intended to hurt someone
what is aggression?
experimental effects caused by expectations alone.
what is placebo effect?
the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behaviour
what are behaviour genetics?
false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of of an external visual experience
what are hallucinations?
a mental representation of the layout of ones enviroment
what is cognitive map?
loss of self awareness in a group
what is deindividuation?
condition of an experiment that contrasts with the experimental group to serve as a comparison
what is a control group?
children learn from their culture a concept what it means to be male or female
rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams normally occur
what is REM sleep?
the effect of promising a reward for what one already likes to do
what is overjustification?
constant frustration leads to aggression
what is frustration- aggression principal?