Science Inquiry Skills
This sampling process involves assigning participants to groups to ensure equal chances of ending up in each group. This is referred to as
What is random allocation?
Milgram's study was performed to demonstrate the level of ________ humans would show in following the instructions of an authority figure
What is obedience?
This SHE concept refers to when psychologists and stakeholders work together to advance research and understanding through shared evidence. It is called ....
What is Collaboration?
A table showing the number of acts of kindness completed in Rundle Mall each day in May would be gathering what type of data?
What is quantitative?
What are the four processes required for observational learning?
Attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation
Qualitative data uses this process in a focus group to analyse the detailed data that is obtained in written or oral format - common themes are identified and collated
What is content analysis?
Which route of persuasion is being illustrated by an advertisement that uses music, colour, slogans and celebrities to get people to change their attitudes?
What is the peripheral route?
The role of our neurotransmitters and genetics in determining our behaviour would fit under which level of the biopsychosocial model??
What is the biological level?
Research Question - Does consuming caffeine lead to faster reaction times?
What is the IV or independent variable in this study?
What is caffeine consumption?
In Little Albert's conditioned emotional response experiment which ethics were breached by Watson and Rayner?
What is all of the ethical guidelines?
This type of data involves numerical information but is easily influenced by personal opinions, interpretations or judgements. ______ _______ data
What is subjective quantitative?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the term where participants form an interpretation of the experiment's purpose and subconsciously change their behavior to fit that interpretation.
This elaboration of SHE concepts refers to the way in which advances in research and technology can lead to advances in psychological understanding. This could involve adjusting or improving research methods and practices. The SHE concept is .....
What is Development?
When a participant engages in inappropriate behaviour a parent, teacher or employer may use this type of program to change the behaviour to get the participant to act more appropriately?
What is a behaviour modification program?
When I put on sunscreen to avoid getting sunburnt what operant conditioning principle am I demonstrating?
What is negative reinforcement?
This is a type of research where participants are tested for the specific impact of a cause and the effect that it has on a person or animals' response
What is an experiment?
When the participants in either study no longer felt they were responsible for their behaviour and experienced anonymity this was called ___________
What is deindividuation?
Personality traits can influence how individuals respond to stressors and cope with challenges. This fits into which level of the BPS Model of health and wellbeing?
What is psychological?
This type of qualitative research design involves recruiting experts in their field and developing and distributing questionnaires in order to reach expert consensus on a topic
What is the Delphi Technique?
When conducting research on classical conditioning some behaviours are learnt much more easily than others due to the organisms ancestry or biology? This refers to the concept of
What is biological preparedness or predisposition?
DAILY DOUBLE
A sample that matches and accurately reflects the important and varied characteristics of the population as closely as possible is called a _______ sample
Zimbardo's prison experiment on compliance demonstrated the impact that the location and environment can have on results. These are called _________ factors or variables
What are situational variables?
This type of therapy fits into the Psychological level of the BPS model and refers to changing our way of thinking in order to change the way we behave and therefore positively impacting our mental health. What type of therapy does this refer to?
What is CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
This type of validity occurs when the results of a study reflect real-world conditions and contexts which are practical to everyday situations
What is ecological validity?
The brain cells of a monkey are active when it picks up the ball. The same brain cells of a monkey are activated when it does not pick up a ball but observes another monkey picking up a ball. This refers to which learning concept?
What are mirror cells?