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Research Methods
Neurobiology
Development
Sensation and Perception
Learning
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The part of the experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter
What is (Independent variable)
100
long extension of the neuron that carries an action potential
What is (axon)
100
Studied moral development using the case study approach
What is (Kohlberg)
100
The part of the eye that focuses the light coming in
What is (lens)
100
The father of operant conditioning
What is (Skinner)
200
Research method by which people are unknowingly observed in their native environments
What is (naturalistic observation)
200
Lobe of the cerebral cortex that contains the sensory cortex.
What is (parietal)
200
Adjusting one’s schema to fit new information
What is (accommodation)
200
According to the monocular depth cue, relative height, things closer appear to be _____.
What is (lower)
200
Another word for observational learning
What is (modeling)
300
300 – any inert substance given to the control group in an experiment
What is (placebo)
300
part of the limbic system that contains “pleasure centers”.
What is (hypothalamus)
300
Knowing that items continue to exist even when we no longer sense them
What is (object permanence)
300
The sense of knowing the location of our limbs
What is (kinesthesis)
300
sudden reappearance of an extinguished conditioned behavior following a rest period
What is (spontaneous recovery)
400
Value of the correlation coefficient if there is a perfect relationship where as one variable goes up the other goes down
What is (-1)
400
Part of brain located in left temporal lobe that controls speech comprehension
What is (Wernicke’s)
400
Knowing that volume and area remain constant even if the shape of an object is changed
What is (conservation)
400
Focusing one’s attention of a particular stimulus and blocking out everything else.
What is (selective attention)
400
Reinforcers that are not innately satisfying, such as money
What is (secondary)
500
A sample in which the trait examined varies symmetrically around the mean.
What is (normal distribution)
500
Parkinson’s patients have lower than normal amounts of this neurotransmitter
What is (dopamine)
500
Type of intelligence that describes one’s ability to reason quickly and abstractly.
What is (fluid)
500
Distance of an object from our face is determined by how different the images from the two eyes are
What is (retinal disparity)
500
promising a reward for doing what one already like to do causes one to lose their intrinsic motivation to do it.
What is (over justification effect)