| A | B |
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| stereotypes | A generalized belief about a group of people |
| homeostasis | The bodies tendency to maintain a balanced internal state |
| ingroup bias | Students at UBC are convinced that their school is better than others |
| Fluid intelligence | Refers to a persons ability to reason speedily and abstractly |
| Maslow | Evidence contradicting ________ theory. For two weeks Bob has been on a hunger strike in order to protest his counties involvement in war. |
| bystander effect | On a busy lunch hour in downtown Vancouver, many people go about their business even though a woman is screaming for help from a fourth story window |
| informational social influence | Maria recently heard a speech calling for a ban on aerosol sprays because they in danger the earth’s ozone layer. She immediately stopped using them |
| CAT scan | Examines the brain by taking a series if x-rays and combining them to create a 3D image. |
| bottom-up processing | When sensation enters our bodies and works its way up to higher level processing |
| teratogens | Harmful agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during development |
| Jean Piaget | He believed that a child’s mind is not just a miniature adult’s mind |
| Weber’s law | Our thresholds for detecting differences are roughly constant proportion of the size of the original stimulus |
| glial cells | They help neurons grow, they insulate the neurons and they release chemicals that foster neuron growth |
| Sensorneural hearing loss | Hearing loss due to damage to the hair cell receptors or auditory nerves |
| conservation | The principle that states that quantity stays the same even though the shape and size changes |
| dendrites | Branch like extensions from the cell body that receive signals from other neurons |
| Operational Definition | Describes how researchers are going to define the variables being tested |
| Absolute threshold | The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimuli 50% of the time |
| naturalistic observation | A method used to record the subjects behavior in a natural setting |
| Operational Definition | Describes how researchers are going to define the variables being tested |
