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Research Methods
Neurobiology
Sensation and Perception
Learning
Disorders and Therapy
100
Independent Variable
What is the part of the experiment (variable) that is manipulated by the experimenter?
100
Axon
What is the long extension of the neuron that carries an action potential?
100
Lens
What is the part of the eye that focuses the light coming in?
100
B. F. Skinner
Who is the father of operant conditioning?
100
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What is a disorder in which one worries all the time for no reason?
200
Naturalistic Observation
What is a research method in which people are unknowingly observed in their native environments?
200
Parietal
What is the lobe of the cerebral cortex that contains the sensory cortex?
200
Retinal Disparity
What is the binocular depth clue that occurs when each of our eyes see different images?
200
Modeling
What is another word for observational learning coined by Albert Bandura?
200
Psychoanalysis
What is the name for the therapy style developed by Freud?
300
placebo
What is any inert substance given to the control group in an experiment?
300
Hypothalamus
What is the part of the limbic system that contains “pleasure centers”?
300
selective attention
What is focusing one’s attention of a particular stimulus and blocking out everything else?
300
spontaneous recovery
What is the sudden reappearance of an extinguished conditioned behavior following a rest period?
300
Bipolar disorder
What is the disorder in which a person will experience alternating between periods of intense happiness and severe depression?
400
-1
What is the value of the correlation coefficient if there is a perfect relationship where as one variable goes up the other goes down?
400
Wernicke's Area
What is the part of brain located in left temporal lobe that controls speech comprehension?
400
Retrieval
What is the process of getting information out of memory?
400
Client-centered therapy
What is the therapy style developed by Carl Rogers?
500
Normal distribution
What is a sample in which the trait examined varies symmetrically around the mean? Hint: draw what this would mean!
500
Dendrites
What is the part of the neuron that receives signals from other neurons?
500
Cocktail Party effect
What is hearing without awareness?
500
Serial Position Effect
What is the tendency to remember more items at the beginning and the end of a list rather than the middle?
500
Dysthymia
What is the chronic, low level depression that often lasts for years?