Research Methods
A presumptive explanation which is the starting point for further investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
An experiment to study the behaviour of normal behaviour when individuals are assigned a role of criminal or guard.
What is the Stanford Prison experiment?
Main type of cell in brain tissue.
What is a neuron?
Sense of persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities, moving slowly
Depression
A restriction in the design of your study.
What are limitations?
Experiment to identify learned prejudice and discrimination in children.
What is the brown eye, blue eye experiment?
Part of the brain responsible for proactive decision making.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
Confused thinking, delusions and hallucinations
What is Schizophrenia?
Whether or not your study is right or wrong, or affects people in a positive or negative way.
What is ethics?
Experiment to identify someone's likelihood to conform to peer pressure.
What is the Asch experiment?
The part of the brain responsible for memory, emotion, and the body's flight-or-fight response.
What is the amygdala?
Experiencing intense highs, intense lows, and depression
Bipolar disorder
Where someone's personal, subjective feelings affect one's judgement.
What is bias?
A study which tried to condition a nine-month old child to develop an irrational fear, using sound.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
Degenerative brain disease that affects cognition, coordination and memory.
What is Alzheimer's?
What is phobia disorder?
The overall way the research is put together, to make the research robust and useful.
What is study design?
Experiment which tried to work out how humans link one thing with another.
The part of the brain is important for language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's Area?
Exaggerated feelings of self-importance, reduced empathy
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?