Research Methods
This research method involves manipulating variables in a controlled environment.
What is a lab experiment?
Social roles, crowds, and authority are examples of this type of influence on behaviour.
What is a contextual influence?
This school of thought explains behaviour through rewards and punishments.
What is behaviourist?
This type of learning was demonstrated by Pavlov’s dogs.
What is classical conditioning?
In the nature vs nurture debate, this refers to genetics and inherited traits.
What is nature?
This research method gathers information using questionnaires or polls.
What is a survey?
Motivation, perception, and temperament are all examples of this type of influence.
What are internal psychological factors?
This school of thought focuses on unconscious motives and early childhood experiences.
What is psychodynamic?
This experiment showed that children can learn aggression by watching others.
What is Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment?
This attachment style shows trust, comfort, and security with caregivers.
What is secure attachment?
This research method involves watching behaviour without interfering.
What is observation?
Behaving differently in a crowd than when alone demonstrates the importance of this concept.
What is context influencing behaviour?
This school of thought emphasizes personal growth and self-actualization.
What is humanistic?
This behaviour was being measured in Milgram’s shock experiment.
What is obedience to authority?
Egocentrism and imaginative thinking are features of this Piaget stage.
What is the preoperational stage?
In an experiment, this group provides a baseline for comparison.
What is the control group?
This is often considered the window or open door that allows one to experience the world around them.
What is sensation?
This psychological perspective studies thinking, memory, and interpretation.
What is cognitive?
Ethical concerns over participant distress caused this experiment to end early.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The “C” in the Big Five personality traits stands for this characteristic.
What is conscientiousness?
This research method studies the same individuals over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
This internal factor explains why people interpret the same situation differently.
What is perception?
Procrastination explained as avoidance of unconscious anxiety best fits this school of thought.
What is psychodynamic?
Harlow developed strong theories regarding the effects of social isolation by studying this test subject.
What is monkeys?
An extrovert being quiet in a formal setting demonstrates this idea about personality.
What is personality being expressed differently depending on context?