Research Methods
Emotion is defined as physiological, emotional-behavioral, and cognitive change
What is operational definition of emotion?
A neuron
What is the common specialized cell in the nervous system?
According to Alfred Kinsey's research in the 50's, attraction between people in a population is better described as a spectrum instead of categories
What is the continuum of sexual orientation?
According the the Big Five Factor Model of Personality, this trait describes our tendency to worry and jump to the worst conclusions about people and situations
What is Neuroticism?
This therapy emphasizes patient's unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalysis?
This research method includes control condition, random assignment to groups, and manipulation of the independent variable
What is experimental design?
Action potential starts on the dendrites, which receive the signal, travels through the soma and down the axon to the axonal terminal
These three factors play a role in whether people feel motivated to do their job
We commit this mental error when we attribute negative behavior of members of our "in group" to the circumstances, while negative behavior of members of our "out group" to their personality
What is the ultimate attribution error?
This is the most prevalent type of anxiety disorder
What is phobia?
This value indicates the strength of a relationship between two variables. It ranges from -1 to +1.
What is the r coefficient?
Variety of chemicals that activate or deactivate receptors on dendrites
What are neurotransmitters?
This level of Abraham Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs describes achieving one's full potential
What is self-actualization?
What is obedience?
These three factors interact to make individuals more or less likely to develop a mental illness
What are psychological, biological, and situational/specific predispositions?
Experimental design
What is the only way to determine cause and effect relationship between two variables?
This part of the brain is responsible for processing space
What is parietal lobe?
This emotion is more likely to provide cognitive distraction instead of allowing us to take responsibility or to hold someone else accountable for their actions
What is blame?
When considering different ways to think of the self, this describes how our values and beliefs drive our actions
What is social agent?
This mental disorder is characterized by shifts in mood, with episodes tending toward energized goal-directed behavior and limited sleep
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
The probability of observing a particular event in a larger population
What is the p-value?
This hemisphere is usually associated with processing of details and shows activation during language tasks for most people
What is the left hemisphere?
While the first system participates in arousing the body in times of stress and combat, the other helps the body settle down and relax
What is the difference between Sympathetic Nervous System and the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
This term predicts that after political rallies people will feel more strongly about their own political stance than before the rally
What is group polarization?
Commonly prescribed for psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, this medication works by lessening amounts of dopamine available in the synapses
What is anti-psychotic medication?