Midterm Review Flashcards
What does human behaviour being multiply determined mean?
Human behaviour is produced by many factors.
Define what correlation is not causation means.
Seeing two variables move together does not necessarily mean one causes the other.
Define nature vs nurture.
Nature refers to genetics while nurture refers to a person’s environment.
What studies do not have an independent variable?
Correlational studies.
What is internal validity?
It is the degree of confidence that the relationship you are testing is not influenced by other variables.
What is external validity?
The extent to which the results from a study can be applied to other situations, groups, and events.
What is a between-subjects design?
Researchers assign different groups to the control or experimental conditions.
Communication between neurons is ___ while communication within a neuron is ___.
Chemical, electrical.
What are the steps of an action potential?
Depolarization, repolarization, and hyperpolarization.
What is localization of function in the brain?
Certain functions have specific locations in the brain.
What is transduction?
The process of converting external energy into electrical activity within neurons.
Define acuity.
Sharpness of vision.
What is Broca’s area responsible for?
Speech.
What is epigenetics?
A field that examines how environmental influences affect the expression of genes.
What is Occam’s razor?
When two competing ideas both explain a phenomenon, choose the simpler of the two.
