Research Methods
A process by which participants are invited simply because they are close to hand sources of data for researchers.
What is convenience sampling?
A fatty layer coating some axons that protects the axon and assists with the speedy delivery of the nerve impulse.
What is a myelin sheath?
Learning by association.
What is classical conditioning?
The stable forms of behaviour that people display in any and every situation.
What are traits?
The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
What is conservation?
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What is statistical significance?
A type of recreational drug that changes our perceptions and give us sensory images without input from the senses.
What are hallucinogens?
A technique for modifying behaviour where the basis of behaviour looked at thoughts, feelings, and actions and the way they affect each other.
The highest motive in the hierarchy for human behaviour. This motive takes over only when all deficiency needs are met.
What are growth needs?
A consideration in motivation by which an individual observes a model behave in a certain way and experience a consequence perceived as desirable by the observer, and as a result, the observer behaves as the model did
What is vicarious reinforcement?
A change in participants behaviour due to their expectation about the treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
The transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
A process of counter-conditioning that exists on the key idea that two incompatible emotional states cannot exist at the same time.
What is reciprocal inhibition?
The 'overlapping' of the true self, ideal self, and self-image.
What is congruence?
The level where moral thinking based on a desire to please others or to follow accepted rules and values.
What is conventional morality?
The principle that states that the participant has the right to have the collection, storage, and sharing of their personal information protected.
What is confidentiality?
The area of the brain that is responsible for the comprehension of language and the formulation of meaningful sentences.
What is Wernicke's area?
A behaviour is reinforced after an unpredictable period of time.
What is a variable interval?
Distinctive but stable patterns of “if-then” situation-behaviour reactions.
What are personality signatures?
The process of interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas.
What is assimilation?
An extraneous variable in an experimental design that correlates with both the dependent and independent variables.
What is a confounding variable?
An inhibitory neurotransmitter that regulates pleasure.
What is dopamine?
A process that occurs when a person or animal responds to the conditioned stimulus only, but not to any other stimulus that is similar to the conditioned stimulus.
What is discrimination?
Our beliefs about whether we can successfully complete tasks.
What is self-efficacy?
The psychological crisis where the main goal is to develop and maintain successful relationships with others.
What is intimacy vs isolation?