Quantitative Research Methods
Independent variable.
What does IV stand for?
Qualitative data.
What is data that can't be quantified?
The way the brain gets rid of useless neural networks.
What is neural pruning?
What is the theory of relative localisation?
The ways researchers pick out people to participate in their studies.
What are Sampling techniques?
A research method with high internal validity but low external validity.
What is a lab experiment?
A Research method where many samples representative of specific things have a conversation together.
What is a Focus Group?
What happens to your brain when you learn.
What is neurogenesis? OR What is the growth of new neurons/neural networks?
The part of the brain responisble for encoding short-term memory to long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The most generalisable sampling technique.
What is Simple Random sampling?
The first study we analysed in this class.
What is Albert et al. (1986)?
The effect of an IV on a DV.
What is something you don't observe during qualitative research?
The mechanism that allowed one man to talk with his motor cortex.
What is Neuroplasticity? OR What is the reallocation of brain functions?
The part of the brain mainly responsible for balance.
What is the cerebellum?
When a participant is asked to invite other participants and ask them to do the same.
What is Snowball sampling?
Inversely proportional.
What is the relation between internal and external validity?
The most common Qualitative research method.
What are case studies?
The most significant change a brain can do to itself to heal.
What is the reallocation of brain functions?
The SPECIFIC part of the brain responsible for higher-order functions. Humans have the largest of the animal kingdom.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The least biased sampling technique.
What is simple random sampling?
This research method can only establish correlation.
What is a quasi-experiment? OR What is a naturalistic experiment?
The experiment used to test the morality of Nazis. We studied it in TOK.
What is the Milgram experiment?
The sheer severity of the wound he sustained during childhood.
What was the reason HM's brain couldn't reallocate the function of his wound?
The part of the brain blind people use to echolocate.
What is the visual cortex?
The most commonly used sampling method.
What is Convenience/Purposive sampling?