Research Methods
A variable that has the potential to affect the dependent variable
What is an extraneous variable?
Changes in an individual's relationship with other people and skills in interacting with others
What is social development?
Variations in neurological development and functioning within and between groups of people
What is neurodiversity?
The procedure of removing parts of the brain
What is ablation?
A progressive and fatal brain disease associated with repeated head injuries and concussions
What is CTE?
An experimental research design in which participants only complete one condition
What is between groups?
The debate about the most important factor in psychological development
What is nature vs nurture?
an action that impairs an individual's ability to meet the demands of everyday life
What is maladaptive behaviour?
A device used to take coloured images of the brain to show function activity
What is a PET scan?
What is a non-traumatic brain injury?
A method for preventing order effects during a within subjects design
What is counterbalancing?
A period in which a skill or function must be learnt or it may never develop
What is a critical period?
A neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by impaired social interactions, verbal and non-verbal communication difficulties, narrow interests, and repetitive behaviours.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
A part of the brain involved in filtering sensory information to the relevant brain area
What is the Thalamus?
Rerouting and sprouting are key factors of this
What is adaptive plasticity?
Inconsistent variations in measurement that impact of data precision
What are Random errors?
The biologically programed process of growth that facilitates all aspects of our development
What is maturation?
Normality is based on what is acceptable in different contexts
What is the situational approach?
One of its roles involve attaching emotion to sensory information and memory
What is the temporal lobe
The process of removing unused pathways in the brain to allow for the strengthening of frequently used pathways
What is synaptic pruning?
The sampling technique used is an important component in determining this
What is external validity?
Children who understand that properties of objects remain consistent even when appearance is altered are said to have developed this
What is conservation?
An adverse and often self-oriented emotional response that is inconsistent to how an individual usually reacts
What is personal distress?
Its organisation is proportional to the complexity of body part movement
What is the primary motor cortex?
Damage to this area of the brain may result in an inability to tell left from right
What is the parietal lobe?