Science of Psych
What are the four types of psychological science research?
Cultural, Social, Biological, Individual
What is the order of the memory system?
What is the difference between convenience sampling and random sampling?
Convenience sampling occurs when there is a group that can be used because it is convenient (the first 100 people to walk into the dining hall of a sample of 100 UD students), while random sampling is strictly randomized (putting all UDID numbers into a random number generator and using the ones that it comes up with)
Which lobe helps with self regulation?
Frontal lobe (Allows you to engage in metacognition)
Which lobe processes information first after your eyes?
Occipital
What is confirmation bias?
The idea that the first thing you see agrees with your opinion it is automatically right. (Ex. First link on Google agrees with your stance, but every other one following does not)
What phrase refers to memorizing something by chunking?
Chunking based on schemas (Ex. Memorizing phone numbers based on the three chunks of numbers)
Why do researchers use random assignment?
To ensure that each group has equal participants (experimental vs control)
True or False: Plasticity refers to the change of the brain as compensation for injury
True! It also is due to development
Which lobe helps determine your place relative to another?
Parietal
What is post-hoc fallacy?
The idea that if one event precedes another, it automatically has a correlation. (Ex. I turned on the light, and my dog started barking, so every time I turn on a light, my dog will bark)
What are two ways you can practice memorizing?
Retrieval Practice (Ex. creating a quizlet and studying it once a day) and Spaced Practice (Studying Psych every other day to let the information sit)
If I cannot correlate whether my lack of sleep leads to poor grade performance or my poor grade performance leads to a lack of sleep, which method does this show?
Directionality problem
What type of variable changes when conducting an experiment?
Independent (Dependent variable changes based on the independent variable, or, what is being changed)
What receptor in your eye helps the most during sensation?
Cones
What is the difference between inattentional and change blindness?
Inattentional blindness is not noticing something due to focusing on something else (Gorilla walking across the screen while focusing on basketball passes), while change blindness is not noticing a significant change (a surfboard blocking the view of a person, and it being a different person after the surfboard goes away)
What process occurs while transferring information from short-term to long-term?
Encoding (Ex. Remembering song lyrics by recognizing the music behind it)
What are the four goals of science?
Descriptive, Control, Prediction, and Explanation
What does the myelin sheath do?
It is a layer that protects the nerve cells.
What type of processing is the blue dress controversy?
Top-down (We use already known information to make the interpretation)
What is availability heuristic?
What is the process of moving information from active stored memory to inactive altered memory?
Reconsolidation (Ex. Meeting someone and remembering the information they told you, then retrieving the memory when seeing them a second time)
Internal - The extent to which a study reflects the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
External - The extent to which the findings of a study can be generalized.
Construct - How well the study measures what it is supposed to be measuring.
Polygenic
When your two eyes point in parallel lines out to something, (ex. a seat in a lecture hall)
Convergence