Cognitive
Storage capacity of STM.
What is 7+-2?
Measures of performance that can be clearly and easily observed/measured.
What are objective measures?
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?
An Organisational Psychologist considers organisational behaviour the ________ level, group level, and organisational level.
What is the individual level?
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?
When an employer or manager rates the performance of their employees.
What is a downward appraisal?
Mental illness that can result in hyperactivation of the brain.
What is anxiety?
Involves selecting participants who are readily available without any attempt to make the same representative from a population.
What is convenience sampling?
When are said to have high levels of assertiveness, but low levels of cooperativeness in the workplace.
What is competing?
Memory system that stores information for 1/3 of a second.
What is iconic memory?
Tendency to rate an employee based on an overall impression of performance (eg. “generally good” or “generally bad”).
What is the Halo Effect?
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?
Comprised of unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that are result from working in an organisation over time.
What are basic assumptions?
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?