Perception
Name two types of attention.
sustained, divided or selective
How many dots appear on a pair of dice?
42
The ethical concept of 'beneficence' is best described as...
the commitment to maximising benefits and minimising the risks and harms involved in taking a particular position or course of action.
Identify one cognitive bias.
Anchoring, Attentional, Confirmation, False-consensus, Hindsight, Misinformation, Optimism, Dunning-Kruger effect
Explain one psychological factor that influences visual perception.
Gestalt principles, perceptual set, context, motivation, past experience or memory.
What are the names of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's kids?
North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm
Describe one sampling technique.
Random sampling - sampling that ensures every member of the population of research interest has an equal chance of being selected to be part of the sample.
Stratified sampling - selecting a sample from a population comprising of various subgroups in such a way that each subgroup is represented.
What is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Venus
Explain cognitive dissonance using an example.
unpleasant psychological state that occurs when people become aware that there is inconsistency among their beliefs/attitudes and their behaviour.
Any example that is correct.
The very slight difference in the location of the images on the retinas due to the different angle of view from the eyes, which enables us to make judgements about the depth or distance of an object is....
Retinal disparity
What month of the year are most people born in?
August.
Alison suggests that drinking high energy drinks impairs performance on memorising key terms. What is the IV and DV for this scenario.
IV: Drinking high-energy drinks (whether or not participants consume a high-energy drink).
DV: Performance on memorising key terms (the level of success or impairment in memorising key terms).
What is the only word in the English Language that ends in 'mt'?
Dreamt
Describe one factor that affects conformity.
Group size, unanimity, informational influence, normative influence, culture, social loafing
Describe one biological and one social factor influencing gustatory perception. Provide an example of each.
Bio: genetics, age, number of taste receptors, sense of smell, pregnancy.
Social: culture, ethnicity, life experience, peer influence
Name 7 animals of the Chinese zodiac.
Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig.
Outline 3 ethical guidelines that should be considered when conducting a study.
Confidentiality, Debriefing, Informed Consent, Use of deception, Voluntary Participation, Withdrawal Rights.
What sports team is Will Smith a part-time owner of?
Philadelphia 76ers
Explain 2 ways to reduce prejudice.
Superordinate goal, cognitive intervention, intergroup contact, mutual interdependence, equality of status
Explain synaesthesia with an example.
Synaesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon where stimulation of one sensory pathway involuntarily triggers another, such as seeing colors when hearing music. For example, someone with synaesthesia might perceive the number "3" as green.
Aureolin is a shade of what color?
Yellow
Explain internal and external validity.
Internal validity refers to the extent to which an investigation actually investigated what it set out to investigate and/or claims to have investigated.
External validity refers to the extent to which the results obtained for a study can be applied beyond the samle that generated them.
Name 4 land locked countries.
Explain the fundamental attribution error with an example.
The tendency to overs estimate the influence of personal factors and underestimate the impact of situational factors on other people's behaviour. When we do this we attribute a person's behaviour to internal rather than situational.