bonus vocab/terms Flashcards
psychometric psychology
- job in psychology
- a person is an expert at giving & scoring psychological tests
generalizable research
- your subjects represent your population (race, gender, age, etc.)
- it means you did a good random sample
inferential statistics
find a stat for a smaller sample, & make an inference about the whole population
descriptive statistics
everyone you wanted to know about taking your survey, & you look at their results
heritability
a measure of how likely genetics contributes to a person’s abilities
cortisol
stress hormone
potassium & sodium
two elements associated with action potentials
temporal lobe
- lobe for hearing
- also associated with memory
parietal lobe
- lobe for the sense of touch
- also associated with the judgement of objects (height, weight, size)
Michael Gazzaniga
studied split-brain patients
synesthesia
- when sense interact in weird ways
ex. someone tastes color
auditory nerve
part of the ear that sends info to the brain
supertaster
someone who can taste better than average – most think it is a genetic thing
tactile sense
sense of touch
semicircular canals
parts of the ear that contain the vestibular sense & help with balance