Frontal Lobe
Responsible for personality and high order mental processes.
Frontal Lobe
Researcher who believed that emotional reactions in disturbed people become exaggerated due to abnormal processes in the frontal lobes and lobotomies disrupt would disrupt these processes.
Freeman
A participant must decide to participate in an experiment of their own free will.
Voluntary Participation
A condition that the experimenter systemically manipulates, changes, or varies in order to determine its effect on another variable
Independent Variable
Used to establish cause-and-effect relationships by manipulating variables to see if changes in one variable cause changes in another variable
Experimental Research
Responsible for voluntary body movements.
Primary Motor Cortex
What was the most notable change in Phineas Gage after his accident?
His personality
The researcher must fully inform the participants of the true nature and purpose of the experiment, and obtain their written permission
Informed Consent
Variables that do not change throughout trials in an experiment
Control Variable
An in-depth descriptive study of the behaviour of an individual using a variety of data collection techniques.
Case Study
Responsible for executive functions (attention, impulse control, social regulation, problem solving & decision making, working memory)
Pre-frontal Cortex
A surgeon inserts a leucotome through the eye socket and drives it through a thin layer of bone with a mallet to access the brain.
Transorbital Lobotomy
Withholding information from the participant about a study’s true purpose, before the experiment begins.
Deception
Predicts the nature of the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable, and predicts in which direction the change will take place
Directional Hypothesis
A sample that consists of those people who are readily available to the researcher.
Convenience Sampling
Controls muscles which are responsible for the production of fluent speech and contains structures responsible for understanding grammatical rules.
Broca's Area
The type of research method Phineas Gage is classified as
Case Study
Refers to the participant’s right to privacy in terms of access, storage and disposal of information related to the research.
Confidentiality
The three types of extraneous variables
Participant, Environment and Researcher
The extent to which an assessment tool measures what it’s meant to measure.
Validity
The the right hemisphere is responsible for the left side of the body, and vice-versa.
Contralateral
The idea that specific parts of the cerebral cortex are relatively specialised for particular functions.
Localisation of function
Outline one role of ethics committees
deciding whether a research proposal meets all the requirements of the National Statement and is therefore ethically acceptable
deciding whether the researcher(s) is adequately experienced and qualified
monitoring approved research (e.g. through progress reports, random inspections of research sites, interviews with participants)
handling complaints (e.g. from participants, the wider community)
ensuring accountability of the researcher (e.g. the researcher understands, accepts and maintains responsibility for all aspects of their research).
A variable other than the IV that has had an unwanted effect on the DV, making it impossible to determine which of the variables has produced the predicted change in the DV
Confounding Variable
The extent to which results or findings obtained from a sample are applicable to a broader population
Generalisability