Research Methods
When both the participants and the researcher do not know what is happening
What is Double Blind Study?
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
When one completely gives up after failing multiple times with no change
What is Learned Helplessness?
The part of the brain that helps with balance
What is Cerebellum?
Who is known for the Attribution Theory?
Who is Fritz Heider?
When the researcher has no interaction with the participant
What is Naturalistic Observation?
The process of organize and interpreting sensory information.
What is Perception?
In Classical Conditioning a stimulus that does not elicit a particular response
What is Neutral Stimulus?
The lobe of the brain that is located in the back of the head that processes visual information. The Occipital lobe
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Who founded Fundamental Attribution Error
Who are David Napolitan &/or George Goethals?
What is Survey?
Failing to notice changes in the environment.
What is Changed Blindness?
The process of aquiring new and relatively enduring new information or behaviors
What is Learning
Part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord
What is the Brainstem
The tendency to blame someone for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.
What is Defensive Attribution?
When participants have an equal chance to be placed into one of the three groups, and are randomly placed in an experiment
What is Random Assignment?
Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up the brains integration of sensory information
What is Bottom-up Processing?
A type of learning where one learns to link one or two stimuli and anticipate events
What is Classical Conditioning
The part of the brain that transmits sensory information to the cerebal cortex
What is Thalamus?
Actions that was hold conciously and can readily describe
What is Explicit Attitudes?
A positive correlation between two things when one predicts the outcome of the other
Placebo Effect?
The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
What is Absolute Threshold?
An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
What is Habituation
Helps regulate emotion, memory and motivation
What is the Limbic System?
Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speakers attractiveness or endorsements by respected people?
What is Peripheral Route Persuasion?