Science Practices
A cheap way of collecting mass amount of data.
What is a survey?
An individual nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system
What is a neuron?
The difference between sensation and perception.
What is sensation is the stimuli and perception is how we interpret it?
Mr. Geston's favorite color.
What is blue?
A type of associative learning where a neutral stimulus, when paired with an unconditioned stimulus, triggers a learned response, called the conditioned response.
What is classical conditioning?
The range of correlation.
What is -1 through 1?
Chemical messengers, mostly those manufactured by the endocrine glands, that are produced in one tissue and affect another
What are hormones?
The name for cognitive framework or a mental blueprint that helps individuals organize and interpret information
What is schema?
The college Mr. Geston attended.
What is Texas A&M?
Adding a punishment to decrease the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.
What is positive punishment?
Why should the feral child case study never be an experiment?
What is no informed consent and causes potential long term damages?
The ability for our brains to form new connections after the neurons are damaged.
What is plasticity?
The strongest type of memory.
What is sensory memory?
Mr. Geston's favorite person.
According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, this is a period from approximately ages 7 to 11 where children begin to use logic in concrete situations. They develop the ability to think logically about real, tangible objects and events, but still struggle with abstract or hypothetical concepts.
What is the concrete operational stage?
The P value that is commonly accepted as a way for you to reject the null hypothesis.
What is less than or equal to 0.05?
The four things the hypothalamus is responsible for.
What is
FOOD
FIGHT
FLIGHT
FORNICATION ?
Calling your new girlfriend your old girlfriend's name is an example of this.
What is proactive interference?
Mr. Geston's favorite vacation spot.
What is Iceland?
Gamblers going crazy over a winning the same amount of money they could make in 8 hours working versus 8 hours gambling is an example of this.
What is a Skinner's box?
Alt Answer: What is operant conditioning?
The proper way to use deception in research.
A signaling molecule, the main ones being acetylcholine, glutamate, GABA, glycine, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin.
What is a neurotransmitter?
A person locking in at beer pong when they are six drinks in could be a result of this.
What is state dependent learning?
Mr. Geston's favorite Anime.
When med students learn about diseases and experience "symptoms" of them.
What is med school student syndrome?
What is a cultural bound syndrome?