Research Methods
While studies like experiments are weak to the Hawthorne Effect, studies like a ________________________ have high ecological validity, and avoid the Hawthorne effect.
What is a Naturalistic Observation?
The process of converting energy from one form to another is known as ________.
What is transduction?
If you forget all of the Pledge of Allegiance besides, "With liberty and justice for all." You are likely experiencing this subdivision of the Serial Position Effect.
What is Recency?
A child has a chronological age of 8 and a mental age of 10. What is their intelligence?
What is 125? (10/8 x 100)
Recently, the government was shut down as Senate Democrats attempted to urge Senate Republicans to extend ACA subsidies. The ACA is an acronym for this piece of legislation.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
In a study examining the impact of alcohol on driving ability, a valid operational definition of alcohol consumed would be (provide a valid operational definition)
Cocaine is classified as this type of Psychoactive Drug.
What is a stimulant?
After a concussion, Robert is unable to form new memories. He is likely suffering from this form of amnesia.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
You, as a high school student, likely have the highest _________ intelligence that you will ever have for the rest of your life, as it gets weaker over a lifetime.
What is fluid intelligence?
In the trading card game, Magic the Gathering, white mana is produced by this land type.
What are Plains?
Tolerance could be a potential _____________ variable in a study on alcohol's impact on driving ability.
What is a confounding variable?
Your thalamus, amygdala and hypothalamus all fall within the _____________ system, a cluster of internal brain structures essential for sensory and emotional processing.
What is the Limbic System?
As you study for your Exam on Friday, you are encouraged to implement __________ practice, rather than cramming the night before.
What is distributed practice?
This researcher gave us the Model for the Forgetting Curve. It's ironic if you forgot his name!
Who is Ebbinghaus?
While Mr. MacKinnon went to Westfield State for his Bachelor's degree, he went to this school for his Master's degree.
What is Westfield State University?
Sanjay scored a 1060 and a 1059 on both of his SAT exams, which he took 4 months apart from one another. Due to the consistency in his scores, it can be said that this exam had high __________________.
What is Test-Retest Reliability?
Motor neurons, responsible for taking signals away from the CNS and coordinating movement, are also known by this name.
What are Efferent Neurons?
According to the Levels of Processing Model, the strongest encoding of memory relies on __________ processing, or considering words for their meaning rather than their looks or sounds.
What is Semantic Processing?
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences helps to explain __________ syndrome, in which someone can be severely deficient in one intelligence but extremely gifted in another.
What is Savant Syndrome?
Nintendo, the company that produces games like Mario and Animal Crossing, was founded in this Decade. (Closest gets it)
What are the 1880's?
While some intelligence tests measure things like current mental age, or pattern recognition ability, ______________ tests measure one's ability to perform well in a field in the future.
What are Aptitude tests?
This stage of Sleep is sometimes referred to as "Paradoxical Sleep" because the brain waves during this stage closely resemble that of an awake person.
What is REM?
According to the Working Memory Model, elements like the phonological loop parallel this visual processing system.
What is the Visuospatial Sketchpad?
While the Stanford-Binet test was originally used for measuring childhood intelligence, tests like the _______, developed by David Weschler serve as more adequate measures of adult intelligence.
What is the WAIS?
The Charlie Brown soundtracks were performed by this famous Jazz Musician.
Who is Vince Guaraldi?