Data set
The arithmetic average.
Mean
Observing behavior in natural settings without intervention.
Naturalistic observation
Recieves information and stimuli
Dendrites
Favoring information that confirms existing beliefs
Confirmation bias
Emotional center, especially for fear and aggression
Amygdala
Middle value when data is ordered from least to greatest.
Median
Measures relationships between variables without establishing causation
Correlation
Contains nucleus and critical organelles
Soma
Overestimating the accuracy of one's knowledge or judgments
Overconfidence
Lobe responsible for planning, decison-making, and motor function
Frontal
Most frequent value in data set
Mode
Research that manipulates variables to test causation
Experiment
Shaft that carries signals through the cell
Axon
Seeing past events as more predictable after they happen
Hindsight bias
Lobe that processes somatosensory information (touch, spatial)
Parietal
Difference between the highest and lowest values.
Range
In-depth examination of one individual or group
Case study
Insulate the axon and speed up signal transmission
Myelin sheaths
Researcher's expectations influence outcomes
Experimenter bias
Lobe responsible for visual processing
Occipital
Average spread around the mean
Standard deviation
Statistical combination of many studies to find overall effects
Meta-analysis
Send information through the synapse to other neurons
Axon terminals
Participants respond in ways that make them look good
Social desirability bias
Lobe responsible for auditory processing and language comprehension
Temporal