front 1 Random sampling | back 1 randomly sampling to create a representative sample |
front 2 Random assignment | back 2 randomly assigning participants into different groups to eliminate confounding variables |
front 3 Quasi experiment | back 3 experiment that does not involve random assignment but strives to find cause and effect |
front 4 sampling bias | back 4 error that occurs due to not properly selecting participants for research |
front 5 peripheral nervous system | back 5 it controls our somatic and autonomic (voluntary, involuntary) |
front 6 sensory neurons (afferent) | back 6 incoming message from the sense receptors to the CNS |
front 7 motor neurons (efferent) | back 7 outgoing message from CNS to the peripheral nervous system |
front 8 cerebral cortex | back 8 responsible for consciousness |
front 9 somatosensory cortex | back 9 responsible for sensory info |
front 10 motor cortex | back 10 responsible for voluntarily muscle movement |
front 11 epigenetics | back 11 how behaviors can affect how genes work |
front 12 molecular genetics | back 12 which genes are associated with personality |
front 13 basal ganglia | back 13 processes movement-related info |
front 14 GABA | back 14 inhibition of brain activity |
front 15 acetylcholine | back 15 memory and learning |
front 16 bottom-up processing | back 16 sense receptors to the level of brain |
front 17 top-down processing | back 17 experience and expectations creates mental processes |
front 18 absolute threshold | back 18 minimum stimulus needed for it to be detected fifty percent of the time |
front 19 difference threshold | back 19 minimum difference needed to detect a difference between two stimuli required for 50% detection |
front 20 Weber's law | back 20 the size of JND is proportional to the intensity of the stimulus |
front 21 subliminal threshold | back 21 stimuli that are below one's absolute threshold |
front 22 signal detection theory | back 22 judging a person's ability to differcinate a stimulus's absense/presence |
front 23 perceptual set | back 23 mental predisposition to percieve one thing and not another |
front 24 cochlea | back 24 physical stimuli of soundwave being converted into a neural impulse |
front 25 place theory | back 25 sound frequencies stimulate basilar membrane at specific places |
front 26 frequency theory | back 26 rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone |
front 27 conduction deafness | back 27 caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea |
front 28 astigmatism | back 28 cornea is irregularly shaped and could impact a person's ability to focus |
front 29 gate control theory | back 29 block pain or allow it to be sensed |