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Key Psychologists
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Research Methods
Learning Theories and Development
100
Learning through association
Define the term classical condtioning
100
Albert Bandura
Which psychologist started research into social learning theory?
100
To investigate whether ordinary people would follow orders and give an innocent person a potentially harmful electric shock.
What is the aim of Milgram's main piece of research on obedience?
100
Quantitative Data
What is the name given to data that is expressed numerically?
100
Dogs
What animal did Pavlov test?
200
A personality pattern reflecting a desire for security, order, power, and status, with a desire for structured lines of authority, a conventional set of values or outlook, a demand for unquestioning obedience, and a tendency to be hostile toward or use as scapegoats individuals of minority or nontraditional groups.
Define the term authoritarian personality
200
Stanley Milgram
Who carried out the famous study that included delivering shocks to participants?
200
A questionnaire was used to detect an authoritarian personality
What is the research method used by Adorno in his study on the authoritarian personality?
200
Right to withdraw
Give an example of an ethical guideline
200
Attention, retention, reproduction and motivation
What are the names of the four main social learning 'stages'?
300
Looking at each question and deciding whether it makes sense in terms of the construct being measured. If it seems to make sense it is seen as having this quality.
Define the term face validity
300
John B. Watson
What is the name of the psychologist who studied 'Little Albert'?
300
65% to 22.5%
How do results compare for delivering shocks up to 450 volts in the original Milgram experiment compared to the telephonic instructions variation?
300
Stratified, volunteer and opportunity
Name 3 types of sampling methods
300
It has a commitment to scientific research methods
What is a strength of SLT?
400
The distance of each value from the arithmetic mean.
Define the term standard deviation
400
Theodor Adorno
Name the main psychologist who came up with the F-scale/authoritarian personality
400
Experiment 13
Which variation number (Milgram) tested an 'ordinary man gives orders'?
400
The mean, median and the mode
What are the main measures of central tendancy
400
1 participant
How many participants took part in Watson's research into classical conditioning?
500
The principle of having a level of professionalism when conducting research.
Define the term competence
500
French and Raven
Who are the main psychologists that came up with Social Power Theory?
500
The use of animal studies means that it not generalisible to human populations
Why is research into classical conditioning criticised?
500
Measures of dispersion
What type of measure is the range and standard deviation?
500
to determine whether players would still feel less human after committing acts of cyber violence against a computer generated/controlled avatar.
What is the aim of Bastian et al.'s (2012) second study?