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100
This refers to when members in larger group settings 'slack off', expecting others to pick up the slack.
What is social loafing?
100
This is the process by which nerve cells regenerate
What is nuerogenesis?
100
Less than or equal to this p value is considered "statistically significant" in the majority of psychology research
What is 0.05?
100
This is the most widely accepted personality test.
What is Myres-Briggs?
100
What is the most popular major at UGA?
What is psychology?
200
This refers to the phenomenon of how groups tend to make riskier decisions as a group, rather than individuals.
What is the risky shift effect?
200
This is a latin term for a distorted human that represents a how the brain distributes sensory processing power across the body.
What is homunculus?
200
This phenomenon occurs when a participant is given a false treatment, yet they believe it has worked.
What is the placebo effect?
200
This personality trait amongst the 'Big Five' is the most highly correlated with success in roles such as sales and leadership.
What is extraversion?
200
This is the OLD name of the current course Psychopathology (PSYC 3230)
What is Abnormal Psychology?
300
This branch of applied mathematics studies strategic decision making outcomes, such as the prisoner dilemma.
What is Game Theory?
300
This refers to the part of the brain that is most largely responsible for regulating emotions.
What is the amygdala?
300
This is considered an unethical research practice, where researchers manipulate data to find significant results.
What is p-hacking?
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What is data-dredging?
300
This personality disorder can be described as Grandoise or Vunerable
What is Narcissim?
What is NPD?
300
This psychology professor is the PI for the UGA child development lab
Who is Dr. Frick?
400
This 1961 study demonstrated how participants would give high voltage "shocks" to an "learner", under the discretion of a "professor"
What are the Milgram Studies?
400
This condition occurs due to impairment of motor planning and programing of speech articulation due to left hemisphere damage.
What is apraxia?
400
This is one of the three criteria for establishing causation, stating that variable X must come before variable Y, and not vice versa.
What is temporal precedence?
400
Unlike personality, this refers to biological tendencies to act a certain way.
What is temperament?
400
Who is the head of the UGA Psychology Department?
Who is Dr. Malissa Clark?
500
The size of a species' social network is directly related to the volume of part of their brains?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
500
This term describes the primary projection pathways of the eyes.
What is IPSILATERAL?
500
This issue occurs in statistical analysis where residuals increase in a 'fan' shape as x values increase?
What is heteroskedacity?
500
Considered a psuedoscience, this is the study of how the brain and skull physiology affect features like cognition and personality.
What is phrenology?
500
This current UGA Professor has been featured on the Today Show and the Joe Rogan Podcast
Who is Dr. Campbell?