Sampling methods
This sampling method pursues readily available participants.
What is opportunity/convenience sampling?
This model proposes memory is stored in sensory, short-term, and long-term stores.
What is multi-store model?
This behavior occurs when individuals adjust actions to match a group.
What is conformity?
This type of study manipulates an independent variable to measure its effect.
What is an experiment?
This study found that the wording of questions could distort eyewitness memory of a car accident.
What is Loftus and Palmer's car crash study?
This sampling method relies on participants recruiting other participants.
What is snowball sampling?
This theory explains how mental frameworks influence perception and memory.
What is schema theory?
Tajfel demonstrated that people favor their in-group even when group assignment is arbitrary. This is known as...
What is the minimal group paradigm?
This term refers to consistency of results across time.
What is reliability?
This researcher demonstrated in-group favoritism and discrimination using arbitrary groups of boys in the minimal group paradigm.
What is Tajfel?
This sampling method is non random due to picking particular participants relevant to the aim of the study
This type of memory distortion occurs when people recall events differently from how they happened.
What is reconstructive memory?
Masculine v feminine, individual v collective, power-distance - what am I talking about?
What are cultual dimensions?
This involves multiple researchers analyzing the same data to reduce bias and increase credibility.
What is researcher triangulation?
This study examined how schemas influence memory by asking participants to recall objects from an office or waiting room.
Who are Brewer and Treyens?
This non-random sampling method relies on participants choosing to take part in a study.
What is volunteer sampling?
This type of thinking is fast, automatic, and relies on heuristics, often leading to biases.
What is system 1 (intuitive) thinking?
We learn behaviour by watching - if these four conditions are met
What is attention, retention, motivation, reproduction?
This type of validity is threatened when a study’s findings cannot be generalized beyond the research setting.
What is ecological validity?
This study examined the effect of stereotypes on intellectual performance among Black and White students.
Who are Steele and Aronson?
Everyone in the population has an equal chance of being selected!
What is random sampling?
Component of the WMM that integrates information from the phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and LTM into coherent, multi-modal scenes.
What is the episodic buffer?
The process of cultural change of an individual when exposed to different cultures
What is acculturation?
This type of experiment manipulates an independent variable in a natural setting.
What is field experiment?
This study suggested that vivid memories are formed for shocking public events, especially when personally relevant, supporting the concept of “flashbulb memory.”
What is Brown and Kulik?