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According to this theory, dreams are caused by the mind attempting to make sense of brain activity while we sleep.
What is the Activation Synthesis Theory?
A case study where a man was interviewed about his dreams over a period of 15 years.
What is Freud's dream analysis of the Wolfman (1918).
This exists when the increasing of one variable results in the increase of the other variable.
What is a positive correlation?
This is another name for a nerve cell.
What is neuron?
Questions that have set responses to choose from.
What are closed questions?
According to this theory, if you grow up with gangsters as role models, you may be more likely to become one.
What is the Social Learning Theory?
A study looking at dispositional factors and their influence on youth involvement in Tottenham.
What is the NatCen (2011) study?
A term used when finding the mean, median, or mode of a data set.
What is central tendency?
Chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gap between two neurons.
What are neurotransmitters?
A way of making sure participants data remain anonymous or unidentifiable.
What is confidentiality?
He theorized that dreams often have important underlying meaning, and can be a method of wish fulfillment.
Who is (Sigmund) Freud?
Although the results of this study support the Social Learning Theory, it was criticized for having low levels of ecological validity and construct validity.
What is the Cooper & Mackie (1986) study.
Another name for numerical data.
What is an quantitative?
This part of the brain is associated with decision making and impulse control.
What is the frontal lobe (prefrontal cortex)?
How a variable is measured in relation to the whole concept.
What is construct validity?
According to Piaget, when we form a new schema or alter an existing schema, we are demonstrating this.
What is accommodation?
This study investigated if advertising could affect how people remember their childhood experiences.
What is Braun et al. (2002).
This states that there will be no effect on the dependent variable.
What is the null hypothesis?
A structure in the brain that helps control key bodily functions, like the release of hormones.
What is the hypothalamus?
If the needs of the group are more important than the needs of an individual, you might be a member of this.
What is a collectivist culture?
This theory suggests that our memories are influenced by prior experiences/schemas and may not be an exact representation of what happened.
What is the theory of Reconstructive Memory?
This study looked at the achievement of 373 students from New York.
What is the Blackwell et al. (2007) study.
Data is collected over a number of years about participants.
What is a longitudinal study?
The volume of grey matter of this brain structure is positively correlated with self-esteem.
What is the hippocampus?
An organism awareness of its own self and surroundings.
What is consciousness?