Research Methods
This research approach uses numbers and measurements and aims to find general patterns.
What is quantitative (positivist) research?
This term refers to the historical system of direct political, social, and cultural domination established by Europeans over conquered peoples.
What is Western colonialism?
This division of the nervous system controls automatic functions like heart rate and digestion.
In this form of learning, a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a naturally occurring stimulus to produce a learned response.
What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?
This personality theorist developed the hierarchy of needs, with self-actualization at the top.
Who is ABRAHAM MASLOW?
This research approach uses stories and descriptions and aims to understand experiences deeply.
What is QUALitative (interpretivist) research?
According to the decolonial framework, this concept describes how patterns of power, knowledge, and control continue to shape our world even after formal colonialism ended.
What is coloniality?
This brain structure is involved in the formation of new memories and is part of the limbic system.
What is the HIPPOCAMPUS?
This development theorist proposed stages of cognitive development including sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Who is PIAGET?
This research ethics principle emphasizes that participants must be fully informed about the study before agreeing to participate.
What is INFORMED CONSENT?
This research approach uses community involvement and aims to create positive change.
What is Critical Theory?
This scholar emphasized the process of "DISRUPT -- DELINK -- UNLEARN -- RELEARN" as central to decoloniality.
Who is Mignolo (2011)?
This neurotransmitter is associated with pleasure, reward, and movement, and its dysfunction is linked to Parkinson's disease.
What is DOPAMINE?
In Erikson's psychosocial development theory, the conflict of "Identity vs. Role Confusion" occurs during this life stage.
What is ADOLESCENCE?
In operant conditioning, this refers to removing a negative stimulus to increase a behavior.
What is NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT?
A researcher's fundamental beliefs about what reality is (ontology), how we can know about it (epistemology), and how we should study it (methodology) form this concept.
What is a RESEARCH PARADIGM?
This concept in decolonial psychology describes how colonized peoples were treated as "objects" to be studied rather than creators of knowledge, and continues to affect whose perspectives count as "scientific."
What is objectification or epistemic violence?
This brain structure activates the body's fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response when it detects a threat, triggering the release of stress hormones.
What is the AMYGDALA?
This learning theory, developed by Albert Bandura, emphasizes the role of observation, modeling, and vicarious reinforcement.
What is SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY?
In research ethics, this principle emphasizes minimizing harm to participants.
What is NONMALEFICENCE?
This philosophy in decolonial research emphasizes that research should be conducted "with" rather than "on" communities and includes their involvement in decision-making.
What is the "Nothing About Us Without Us" philosophy?
These scholars emphasize that Indigenous sovereignty and "land back" are central to true decolonization.
Who are Tuck and Yang (2012)?
This concept in biopsychology challenges the view that behavior is solely determined by either nature or nurture, suggesting that genes and environment constantly interact.
What is EPIGENETICS?
This development theory, proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, examines how different environmental systems influence development.
What is ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY?
From a decolonial perspective, this practice involves researchers acknowledging their own social positions and how these influence their research.
What is POSITIONALITY?