The purpose of a study indicating which behaviour or mental process will be studied.
What is aim
100
over a period of time
What is longitudinal
100
the norms and values that define a society.
What is culture
100
acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information
What is learning
100
Human beings are information processors and manipulate stimuli received from the environment. These mental processes guide behaviour
What is cognitive principle 1
200
The group whose behaviour the researcher wishes to investigate.
What is target population
200
human behavior is the result of biological or environmental factors
What is nature vs. nurture
200
behavior patterns that are typical of specific groups
What is cultural norms
200
the unfolding of behaviors that are genetically programmed for all humans
What is maturation
200
The mind can be studied scientifically by developing theories and using a number of scientific research methods
What is cognitive principal 2
300
The step-by-step process used by the researcher to carry out the study.
What is procedure
300
a process which the neurotransmitters are released by the neurons and activated the next neuron across the synapse.
What is neurotransmission
300
“as it really is”
What is naturalistic
300
correlational research study that involves repeated observations of the same variables over long periods of time — often many decades. It is a type of observational study
What is longitudinal research
300
Cognitive processes are influenced by social and cultural factors
What is cognitive principle 3
400
The people who take part in a psychological study
What is participants
400
Patients with problems producing speech, but were able to understand it
What is broca's asphasia
400
how people interpret and explain casual relationships in the social world
What is attribution
400
a class of research methods that involve observation of all of a population, or a representative subset, at one specific point in time
What is cross-sectional design
400
Memory, language, thinking, attention and perception
What is cognitive processes
500
these state how the researcher interpreted the data that was collected
What is findings
500
Patients can produce speech, but could not understand it
What is Wernicke's aphasia
500
when people tend to make an attribution about behavior depending on whether they are performing it themselves or observing somebody else doing it
What is actor-observer effect
500
theoretical framework for understanding and analyzing how culture shapes child development
What is developmental niche
500
"all the processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used"
What is definition of cognition (Ulric Neisser, 1967)