Research Methods
A research controlled experience designed to test the relationship between two variables.
What is an experiment?
This model asserts that environmental input advances from sensory memory to short-term memory through attention and from short-term to long-term through rehearsal, transfer, and retrieval.
What is the multi-store model?
The ability of the brain to change continuously throughout an individuals life.
This theory claims that in-group favoritism and out-group discrimination are both effects of social categorization.
What is social identity theory?
This hypothesis claims that people are influenced by both the desirability of their potential match and their perception of the probability of obtaining the desired person.
What is the matching hypothesis?
A researcher-controlled experience that uses pre-existing attributes of the participants as the independent variable.
What is a quasi-experiment?
According to the working memory model, this is the term for the auditory repetition in our minds that keeps memories alive through rehearsal.
What is the phonological loop?
Harris and Fiske found that images of people considered outsiders to the participants elicited no reaction in this part of the brain.
The tendency to seek out information that confirms a belief and to ignore information that challenges it.
What is confirmation bias?
This theory claims that the benefits of a relationship must outweigh the cost to an individual.
A term for the most commonly available population in well-funded psychology research regions who are overrepresented and non-representative of the global population.
What is WEIRD?
What is dual process theory?
These are tree-like branches that carry signals from one neuron to the next.
What are dendrites?
A type of cognitive bias that takes place when two statistically infrequent events co-occur.
What is illusory correlation?
This study aimed to investigate attributes both men and women seek in a romantic partner and included 10,000 participants from 37 cultures who completed questionnaires.
What is Buss?
This can occur when elements influence the investigator to analyze the data in a non-objective manner, including their beliefs, values, and hoped-for results.
What is researcher bias?
This study investigated if schema processing influences encoding and retrieval of memories by giving one group the schema of a robber and the other group the schema of a potential home-buyer before reading them a story.
What is Anderson and Pichert?
This measures changes in blood flow in the active brain. This is one of the most frequently used technologies in biopsychological research today.
What is fMRI?
This study's aim was to consider the role of illusory correlation in the overestimation of negative behaviors of minority groups by US police.
What is Smith and Alpert?
The rapid elimination of connections between neurons as well as neurons themselves to increase efficiency in the brain that happens between age 1 and adolescence.
What is synaptic pruning?
This research method lends itself particularly well to the study of cultural influences on behavior and cognition.
This study aimed to investigate the link between race and diagnoses of schizophrenia and can be used to support a discussion of confirmation bias or dual process theory.
What is Pavkov and Lewis?
According to Maguire's study in 2000, this part of the brain was significantly larger in taxi drivers than non-taxi drivers.
What is the hippocampus?
This study supports both social identity theory and social cognitive theory and investigates the extent to which attitudes toward an out-group member can be manipulated through emotional valence.
What is Joyce and Harwood?
What is concrete operational stage?