Cognitive
Storage capacity of STM.
A defence via which a defendant argues that although they broke the law, they should not be held responsible for doing so.
What is diminished responsibility?
Primary neurotransmitter responsible for the formation of addiction.
What is dopamine?
The complex interaction between an individual's biology, psychology, and social environment.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
Process which allows information to transfer from sensory memory to short-term memory.
What is paying attention?
The organisation of items into related groups during recall?
What is clustering?
Things that are analysed to build a profile.
What is evidence?
Acts as the middleman, relaying information between the peripheral nervous system and the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
Ethical consideration which states that participants cannot be forced to take part in an experiment or treatment.
What is voluntary participation?
Items at the beginning of a list are the most likely to be recalled.
What is the primacy effect?
When information is recovered from memory into conscious awareness.
What is retrieval?
Kills impulsively and at random locations. Uses whatever weapons are available. Socially inadequate. Uses excessive violence.
What is a disorganised killer?
Mental illness that can result in decreased functioning of the brain.
What is depression?
Involves selecting participants who are readily available without any attempt to make the same representative from a population
What is convenience sampling?
Categories of offenders displaying different clusters of behaviour and attitudes.
What are typologies?
Memory system that stores information for 1/3 of a second.
What is iconic memory?
They seek to deal with their sense of loneliness by trying to establish a close relationship with someone else in an inappropriate manner.
What is an intimacy-seeking stalker?
Determines whether a neuron will be activated.
What is the soma?
The extent to which the results obtained from a research study are consistent, dependable and stable.
What is reliability?
Uses a radioactive substance to measure the brain activity and functioning.
What is a PET Scan?
German psychologist widely regarded as the first person to scientifically study forgetting.
Who is Herman Ebbinghaus?
A question that is phrased in such a way as to suggest what answer is desired.
What is a leading question?
Primary cortex found within the occipital lobe.
What is the primary visual cortex?
Provides a standard or baseline against which the performance of the experimental group can be compared to in order to determine whether the IV caused a change in the DV.
What is a control group?
The prejudice against or discrimination of a particular individual or group, based on particular characteristics.
What is a stigma?