MCAT Content from Questions Flashcards
Attachment v. Avoidant styles
Attachment- when child has little separation anxiety when the caregiver leaves but they explore their surroundings. Seek contact when caregiver comes back.
Avoidant- little separation anxiety when parents leave, don’t explore their environment and resist caregiver when they come back.
What are the four brain regions?
- Parietal lobe
- Hippocampus
- Prefrontal cortex
- Amygdala
- Parietal lobe- integrates sensory information.
- Hippocampus- memory encoding.
- Prefrontal cortex- executive functioning and decision making.
-Amygdala- emotional encoding.
Self- efficacy
Someone’s belief about their ability to perform a certain behavior.
Survey methods v. Interviews
Survey methods ask close-ended questions.
Interviews- asks open ended questions.
Ethnographic methods
In- person observations that observe people in their cultural settings over a long- period of time.
Experimental method
Study method that words to separate groups into experimental groups and by manipulating variables.
Comparative methods
Study of method that focuses on comparing groups in the experiment.
Continuous reinforcement v. Partial reinforcement
Continuous reinforcement has a faster rate of acquisition and faster rate of extinction.
Partial reinforcement has a slower rate of acquisition and a slower rate of extinction.
Xenophobia
Fear or suspensions of cultures that are different from our own.
Scapegoating
When someone purposefully assign blame for something when the real reason is abstract.
Hawthorne effect
When someone changes their behavior when someone is observing them.
Demand characteristics
When research design provides hints the hypothesis to the participants in effect shaping their responses.
Describe the following types of definitions:
- Hypothetical
- hypothetical - definition that describes the expected relationship between two variables.
- Conceptual- a definition that focuses on the social contexts.
-Thematic - a definition that focuses on the application to a larger area.
- Operation - definition that focuses on the defining ways to measure or observe a concept.
