Biological Psychology
The space between two neurons.
The stage where a child lacks object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The greater the number of people present in an emergency, the less likely it is that each one will act, as each person assumes that another will take responsibility
What is diffusion of responsibility?
A relatively enduring and general evaluation of an object, person, group, issue, or concept on a dimension ranging from negative to positive
What are attitudes?
Data collection using both qualitative and quantitative data
What is mixed methods?
The researcher who popularised frontal lobotomies.
Who is Freeman?
The brain’s ability to compensate for lost functionality due to brain damage as well as in response to interaction with the environment by reorganising its structure.
What is adaptive plasticity?
The changing of an individual’s behaviour as a result of influence/social pressure from an authority figure.
What is obedience?
The first process in Social Identity Theory.
What is social categorisation?
Participants are randomly assigned to either a treatment group or a control group.
What is random allocation?
A brain neuroimaging technique that detects changes in oxygen levels in the blood flowing through the brain and combines this data into a detailed computer-enhanced 3D representation of the active brain.
What is an fMRI?
If an infant is unable to develop a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with its mother, then the child would have difficulty forming relationships with other people and be at risk of behavioural disorders
What is the maternal deprivation hypothesis?
Conforming because the individual respects the group and believes they have more knowledge than them
What is informational influence?
Also accept: informational social influence.
An interaction or relationship between people or groups who are on the same social level
What is equal-status contact?
Whether the results from a study can be applied to the population
Generalisability
The part of the brain that filters information from all the senses except the nose and passes it on to the appropriate part of the brain for processing
What is the thalamus?
The death of certain neurons and the retraction of axons that make connections which are useful.
What is synaptic pruning?
The researcher who developed Social Influence Theory.
Who is Kelman?
Compliance, Identification, Internalisation
The attribution of one’s own or another’s actions to internal or psychological causes specific to the person concerned (such as traits, moods, attitudes, judgments, abilities, or effort).
What are dispositional attributions?
You might use this measure of central tendency if there are outliers in your dataset.
What is median?
The branch of the nervous system that maintains an energy level appropriate for normal bodily functioning.
Write in full.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The interaction that was the most important in determining the attachment a child had.
What is reaction to reunion?
The five factors on your syllabus that influence the extent to which we are likely to conform (NOT including the two 'reasons').
What are:
group size
unanimity
culture
deindividuation
social loafing?
The tendency to overemphasise dispositional factors and underemphasise situational factors when making attributions about other people.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The participant has the right to have the collection, storage, and sharing of their personal information protected
What is confidentiality?