Category: Science
Created by: tim.zhaotianqi
Number of Blossarys: 40
An interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors, and how these processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology.
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
A society’s widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world.
The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen it. Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. Important for test preparation.
Studies that seek clues to cause- effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant).
When two variables correlate, any combination of three explanations is possible. Either one may cause the other, or both may be affected by an underlying “third factor”.
Survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion.