Brain
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
What does ADHD stand for?
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
The tendency to allow our overall positive impression of a person to influence our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities.
Halo effect
This is the ability to distribute our attention so that two or more activities may be performed simultaneously.
Divided attention
2 types of sampling in study design
Random
Stratified
The structures of the hindbrain
Medulla
Pons
Cerebellum
Name two of the criteria we can use when categorising behaviour as typical or atypical
Social norms OR
Cultural perspectives OR
Malapative behaviours OR
Personal Distress OR
Statistical Rarity
American psychologist ________ investigated factors that can influence obedience to an authority figure.
Stanley Milgram
This explanation for the Muller-Lyer illusion proposes that the illusion occurs because of its similarity to familiar architectural features in the real three-dimensional world we experience as part of everyday life.
Carpentered world hypothesis
Difference between random sampling and random allocation
sampling is when you are finding your sample, allocation is when you have your sample and you are allocating them to groups
Is a Positron emission tomography (PET) scan a functional or structural imaging technique?
Functional
Provide the age ranges for Piaget's stages
0-2
2-7
7-12
12+
This is a way of thinking by individual members of a group characterised by a strong tendency to seek agreement when decision-making or problem-solving, thereby overriding any realistic consideration of possible alternative, better options.
Groupthink
Monocular depth cues (provide at least 4)
Accommodation, pictorial depth cues
4 things needed in a hypothesis
IV
DV
Direction of prediction
Population
Name the two processes that occur in the brain as part of neuroplasticity
Rerouting and sprouting
Identify the IV or Harlow's experiment
Whether or not the rhesus monkey was reared on a wire or cloth monkey
This is the tendency to overestimate personal factors, and underestimate situational factors when judging other people's behaviour.
Fundamental attribution error
Inability to recognise people when looking at their faces
Prosopagnosia
Difference between repeatability and reproducibility
repeatability is running the same conditions again, reproducibility is running with different conditions
Both to see if you get same results
Define CTE and TBI. Explain how they are connected using an example.
A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is damage to the brain caused by an external force, such as a blow or jolt to the head whereas Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive, degenerative brain disease linked to repeated TBIs or concussions. A boxer may develop CTE after experiencing multiple TBIs during their career.
2 differences between critical and sensitive periods of development, plus an example of each
- definite start and end for critical periods, shorter, if missed then there is no going back
Mallard ducks - imprinting
- sensitive periods are longer, less defined, possible to do some learning later
Language learning - humans
These factors influenced the rate of conformity in Asch's famous line length experiments (hint:come up with at least 5)
Unanimity, Informational Influence, Group size, Normative Influence, Culture, Social Loafing
The main type of synaesthesia
Grapheme - colour synaesthesia
Difference between systematic and random errors
systematic errors always tend to occur in one direction and are often related with a measuring device issue
Random errors occur in all directions and with different magnitudes