bonus vocab/terms

Question 1

psychometric psychology

Answer 1

• job in psychology
• a person is an expert at giving & scoring psychological tests

Question 2

generalizable research

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• your subjects represent your population (race, gender, age, etc.)
• it means you did a good random sample

Question 3

inferential statistics

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find a stat for a smaller sample, & make an inference about the whole population

Question 4

descriptive statistics

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everyone you wanted to know about taking your survey, & you look at their results

Question 5

heritability

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a measure of how likely genetics contributes to a person’s abilities

Question 6

cortisol

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stress hormone

Question 7

potassium & sodium

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two elements associated with action potentials

Question 8

temporal lobe

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• lobe for hearing
• also associated with memory

Question 9

parietal lobe

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• lobe for the sense of touch
• also associated with the judgement of objects (height, weight, size)

Question 10

Michael Gazzaniga

Answer 10

studied split-brain patients

Question 11

synesthesia

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• when sense interact in weird ways

ex. someone tastes color

Question 12

auditory nerve

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part of the ear that sends info to the brain

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supertaster

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someone who can taste better than average – most think it is a genetic thing

Question 14

tactile sense

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sense of touch

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semicircular canals

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parts of the ear that contain the vestibular sense & help with balance

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social learning theory

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• same as observational learning or modeling
• created by Bandura (bobo doll guy)

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elaborative rehersal

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encoding something new with something already meaningful or existing memory

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maintenace rehersal

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repeating something over & over so you don’t forget

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source monitoring

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knowing where you learned a piece of information

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consolidation

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turning a short term memory into a long term memory

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divergent thinking

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brainstorming many solutions to a problem

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predictable-world bias

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see patterns in random things

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gross motor skills

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large muscle groups

ex. walking, standing, running, jumping

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fine motor skills

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small muscle groups
ex. picking up item with fingers, writing

Question 25

imaginary audience phenomenon

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thinking people are watching you or noticing you when they aren't

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menarche

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girls first menstruation

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gender typing

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aware of gender, adopt attributes with the gender you identify as

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approach-approach conflict

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choose between 2 equally good choices

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approach-avoidance conflict

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making a choice with something that has good & bad consequence

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avoidance-avoidance conflict

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choosing between 2 bad choices

Question 31

NEO-PI-3 personality test

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tests for the big 5 personality traits

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evolutionary perspective of attraction

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people are attracted to those wirh reproductive viability

Question 33

David Rosenhan study

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experiment where people get admitted in psychiatric wards pretending to have disorders, & then had a hard time getting out

Question 34

major neurocognitive disorder

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new label for dementia