Research Designs
The independent variable is manipulated in this design.
What is an experimental design?
The variable that is measured in any given research.
What is the dependent variable?
The name given to any action that can be observed or measured.
What is behaviour?
The principle that refers to people's knowledge of the research they are participating in.
What is informed consent?
The type of cake I brought in for the BPS model.
What is a mud cake?
This design type involves finding a relationship between variables rather than a cause and effect relationship.
What is observational research?
The variable that is pre-existing in an observational design.
What is the independent variable?
This person can prescribe medication as a treatment for disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
The number of ethical principles you need to remember.
What is 6?
The total number of people in this class.
What is 24?
This design gives the researcher the most control over extraneous variables.
What is an experimental design?
The name given to variables that could POTENTIALLY impact upon a research study.
What is an extraneous variable?
The model of explanation for behaviour which is determined by the physical and chemical processes of the body?
What is the biological level of explanation?
The principle being violated when you aren't allowed to leave a research study.
What is the right to withdraw?
The 'B' choice offered by Derren, after giving the audience the 'A' choice of being the 5000th Customer and winning a prize.
What is being accused of shoplifting?
This design is based on participant's opinions.
What is qualitative research?
The type of extraneous variable which refers to the effect of the environment on the study.
What is situational variables?
Trauma can often be explained from this level of the Biopsychosocial Model.
What is the psychological level?
Being required to participate in this Jeopardy game violates this principle.
What is voluntary participation?
The number of minutes that passed before Derren's experiment was no longer unfaked.
What is 50?
This design is the preferred one to use when manipulating variables is unethical.
What is an observational design?
The name of variables that actually DID impact upon the independent variable.
What is confounding variable?
The exact definition (word for word) of psychology.
What is the scientific study of thoughts, feelings and behaviour and the factors that influence these?
This can only happen when debriefing occurs.
What is deception?
The psychological concept of focus in Derren Brown's experiment.
What is Deindividuation?