Biological
The best study to use for an SAQ that spans the following questions: Explain the influence of one hormone on behaviour OR Localization of Function OR Emotion and Memory.
What is McGaugh and Cahill?
The second area of the Multistore Model of Memory
What is STM?
The artists of the paintings used to create the 2 'minimal groups' in Tajfel's Social Identity Study
Who are Klee & Kandinsky
The researcher behind evolutionary theories of mate selection.
Who is Buss or Trivers?
This term refers to a limitation resulting from the highly artificial nature of laboratory experiments.
What is ecological validity?
The assumption that each action or set of actions corresponds to a certain part of the brain.
What is localization of function?
Another name for System 1 thinking (which they could use in an SAQ)
What is intuitive thinking?
An explanation of stereotype formation which states when two relatively unusual events occur simultaneously, and incorrect inference is drawn from this co‐occurrence
What is Illusory Correlation?
This biological theory of etiology for MDD is focused on one particular neurotransmitter.
Many medications are based on this presumed relationship.
The Serotonin Hypothesis.
This sampling method typically suffers from homogeneity of personality types - particularly extroversion
What is volunteer sampling
A technique which involves injecting a mild radioactive substance, enabling researchers to view activity in parts of the brain
What is a PET scan?
The rule we apply which guides us to use the first information we encounter in order to make a subsequent judgement/decision.
What is anchoring bias?
A strategy for acculturation which involves the acceptance of some new cultural behaviours whilst still maintaining some of your original cultural identity
What is Integration?
Chou and Blizinsky suggest that this is responsible for sensitivity to social factors. May play a role in prevalence of MDD.
SERT: Short Serotonin transporter allele.
This ethical consideration is worthy of discussion when you have actively mislead the participants in your experiment - making them believe something that is untrue.
What is deception by commission?
The process in which a chemical agent, released by a brain cell, travels across a synapse to either inhibit or excite a target cell
neurotransmission
The missing component from this list: Central Executive, Phonological Loop, VSSP
What is the episodic buffer?
The set of beliefs, values and behaviours shared by a group of group of people, which are characteristic of that group and are communicated from one generation to the next.
What is culture?
The 3rd level of social penetration and self disclosure
What is Goals, ambitions and dreams?
A good way of identifying any errors in your instructions, design, materials or procedure prior to collecting data.
What is a pilot test?
The interactionist approach that suggests biological predispositions along are not sufficient to explain behaviour and that they exert their influence only when in combination with environmental conditions.
What is epigenetics?
Diathesis-Stress would also be considered.
The process by which we choose to let transactive memory stores hold information for us.
What is cognitive offloading?
The 4 cognitive processes involved in our decisions about how to behave, according to Social Cognitive Theory
What are: Attention, Retention, Reproduction and Motivation?
The most critical horseman in terms on contribution to relationship breakdown
What is contempt?
These are 2 ethical considerations worthy of discussion in Clarke & Hatfield's study.
What are lack of informed consent and debrief