Science Inquiry Skills
The collection of numerical data.
What is quantitative research?
The ____ _______ ______ arouses the body in response to a perceived threat or emergency.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
What is positive psychology?
What is the way in which emotions vary in between individuals and cultures?
The standard guide that individuals identify good, desirable and acceptable conduct.
What is an ethic?
(or ethical practice?)
An advantage of _________ ___, is that the conditions are strictly controlled to minimise influence of extraneous variables.
What is an advantage of quantitative data?
The two branches of the _____ ____ ____ is the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
A person can be said to be ______ if they perceive that their life is going well.
When is a person considered flourishing?
According to this psychologist's theory, emotion contains a personal (subjective) experience that involves a mixture of physiological responses, subjective feelings and expressive behaviour.
What is Paul Ekman's theory?
or
Who is Paul Ekman?
If I asked you how many hours of sleep you had last night, your response is your estimate (personal opinion)
What is a subjective [quantitative] measure?
The ______ ______ ____ links the central nervous system (CNS) with the body's internal organs and glands, providing feedback to the brain on their activities.
Martin Seligman
Who is the founder of positive psychology?
this method of investigating subjective feelings often asks the person involved to describe or relate how they are feeling.
What is a self-report method?
What are two family protective factors? (that helps build resilience)
Example: Miss Vanyai has carefully watched and recorded behaviour as it has occurred.
What is an observational research design?
The process when your nervous system levels out your heart rate, levels out breathing rate, and constricts pupils.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
What is mental health?
This theorist believed that emotions are instinctive and innate as they were acquired through evolution. He also believed that facial expressions are used so emotions can be accurately recognised by other people.
What is the universality of expressive behaviour?
or
What did Darwin believe about Emotion?
this type of intervention in mental health is designed to be a structured psychological treatment which recognises that the way we think (cognition) and act (behaviour) affects the way we feel.
What is CBT?
(Cognitive Behavioural therapy).
A _____ _____ provides a standard of comparison against which the experimenter can compare performance of the experimental group (to see if the IV has effected the DV)
A _____, is an individual nerve cell that has specialised function. The role of the _____ is to receive sensory information from the external environment and from within the body to transmit it to the CNS.
What is a neuron?
The main components are the pleasant life, the good life and the meaningful life.
What is the three routes to happiness?
Physiological changes associated with guilt and anxiety both show up on a polygraph as an increased state of arousal, so it is hard to make a distinction between the two.
What is a limitation of the polygraph test?
What is mindfulness?