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A research strategy that identifies the relationships between two or more variables in order to describe how these variables change together.
What is correlational research
100
The brief wave of electrical charge that sweeps down the axon during the transmission of a nerve impulse.
What is action potential
100
holds that a simple task is performed best when arousal levels are relatively high and complex tasks are best performed when arousal levels are lower.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson law
100
A classical conditioning procedure for weakening a conditioned response by associating the fear-provoking stimulus with a new response that is incompatible with the fear.
What is counterconditioning
100
Researched the effects of various leadership styles, team structures, and team dynamics.
Who is Kurt Lewins
200
A factor that can change in an experiment in response to changes in the independent variable.
What is the dependant variable
200
storage site for neurotransmitters
What is what are sypnatic vessels
200
Learning by which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response.
What is classical conditioning (Pavlonian Conditioning)
200
The weakening of the conditioned response in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus.
What is extinction
200
The body's tendency to maintain an equilibrium, or steady state.
What is Homeostasis
300
gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empiricism values such research more than other kinds. Empirical evidence (the record of one's direct observations or experiences) can be analyzed quantitatively or qualitatively.
What is emperical method
300
fatty substance that insulates axons
What is the myelin sheath
300
The process of learning to respond to certain stimuli and not to others.
What is discrimination
300
A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicits the conditioned response after being associated with the unconditioned stimulus.
What is a conditioned stimulus (CS)
300
A person with an internal locus of control believes that he or she can influence events and their outcomes, while someone with an external locus of control blames outside forces for everything.
What is Internal and External Locus of control
400
The manipulated experimental factor in an experiment.
What is the independent variable
400
In (1933) The Feminist Revolutionist who stimulated a feminist revolution in psychology by presenting a critique of psychology in science.Criticized male psychologists for constructing the psychology of women entirely out of their own cultural biases and without experimental tests.
Who is Naomi Weisstein
400
The tendency of a new stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus to elicit a response that is similar to the conditioned response.
What is generalization
400
states that we feel emotions and experience physiological reactions such as sweating, trembling and muscle tension simultaneously
What is the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
400
frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital. This is the largest part of the brain and is composed of right and left hemispheres.
What is the cerebrum
500
An idea that is arrived at logically from a theory. It is a prediction that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis
500
axon terminal containing synaptic vessels
What are terminal buttons
500
In operant conditioning, learning refers to changes in behavior as a result of experiences that occur after a response. Operant conditioning involves changing voluntary behaviors. A behavior response is followed by either reinforcement or punishment.
What is Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
500
The tendency of individuals to perform better simply because of being singled out and made to feel important.
What is the Hawthorne effect
500
nerve layer that lines the back of the eye, senses light, and creates electrical impulses that travel through the optic nerve to the brain
What is the Retina