Research Methods
The science of behaviour and mental processes.
The science of behaviour and mental processes.What is psychology?
This is a change in response as a result of experience.
What is learning?
These are generalisations that we develop about categories of objects, places, events, & people.
What are schemas?
This is the first memory store in the information processing model (aka modal model of the mind).
What is the sensory memory?
Personal attributes that centre on skill at information processing, problem-solving and adapting to new or changing environments
What is intelligence?
An explicit, testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur.
What is an hypothesis?
This type of learning explains why your cat comes running when it hears you open the can of food.
What is classical conditioning?
This is the term for time-saving mental shortcuts.
What is a heuristic?
This memory store has an infinite capacity (as far as we can tell, at least).
What is long-term memory?
An index of intelligence that reflects the degree to which a person’s score on an intelligence test deviates from the average score of others in the same age group.
What is an intelligence quotient?
A type of measure that is limited by how honestly participants answer the experimenters’ questions.
What is a self-report measure?
These are three (3) of the most influential learning researchers.
Who are Pavlov, Watson, & Skinner?
This is the tendency to pay more attention to evidence in support of your hypothesis (or prior belief) than to evidence that refutes it.
What is a confirmation bias?
This control process help us to focus on relevant information and ignore irrelevant information.
What is attention?
A memory model in which information is seen as passing through sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory
What is the information-processing model of memory?
A research method that examines cause and effect relationships.
What is an experiment?
This type of learning explains why we put our seatbelt on when we get in the car.
What is negative reinforcement?
This is a representation of particular situations or arrangements of objects that guide our interaction with them.
What is a mental model?
This effect demonstrates that we process routine information automatically (at least to some extent).
What is the Stroop interference effect?
The basic power of reasoning and problem solving
What is fluid intelligence?
A type of validity that addresses the extent to which research results are generalizable.
What is external validity?
This is the concept that explains that learning can occur even without reinforcement/punishment.
What is latent learning?
This is the tendency to use familiar objects in familiar rather than creative ways.
What is functional fixedness?
This type of memory captures our own past experiences.
What is episodic memory?
Eight semi-independent kinds of intelligence postulated by Howard Gardner
What are multiple intelligences?