Darwin's theory of non verbal communication
Name one key term associated with Darwin's theory of non verbal communication
Adaptive/evolution/innate/serviceable habits/genes
Was Gibson's direct theory of perception related to nature or nurture?
Nature
Who conducted the serial position study of memory?
Murdock
What is meant by 'self report'?
When participants give their own answers
What is meant by a serviceable habit?
A habit which we still do as it used to be beneficial, but is not any longer
What is meant by motion parallax?
The way in which our visual field changes with movement; close objects seem to move more than objects which are far away.
Who conducted the war of the ghosts study?
Bartlett
What is an extraneous variable?
Something that is not the IV but can affect the DV
Give two pieces of evidence to suggest that Darwin was right about none verbal communication
Sensory deprived babies / babies facial expressions / social releasers
What are the two key visual interpretations that Gibson proposed?
Motion parallax and optic flow
Name 3 key elements of the MSM?
SM, LTM, STM, maintenance rehearsal
Name two types of sampling in psychology
opportunity, stratified, systematic, random
What is the name of the features babies have that make adults want to care for them?
What is meant by optic flow?
when we use information from movement to perceive our environment
What are the two types of interference and what is causes retrieval failure?
proactive, retroactive, context dependent forgetting
Directional = states how the results will go / turn out
None directional = states there will be a 'difference' or 'relationship' but not what type or direction it will go in
This person found that blind children and a control group showed similar facial expressions, such as surprise
Thompson (1941)
Give one piece of evidence to support Gibson's theory
The Gibson and Walk visual cliff study
Who conducted the study into false memories?
Loftus and Palmer
Name all types of experimental method and experimental design
lab, field, independent, repeated, matched pairs, natural