Study evaluation
What is the acronym that helps you remember strategies for evaluation studies?
MAGEC
What are the examples of 2 methods that do not provide a cause and effect relationship?
observation, case study, interview, correlation
What is the definition of "psychology?"
The scientific study of human behaviour and mental processes.
The group in an experiment that receives a treatment that is expected to have an effect is called the ....(what)... group?
Treatment group
Name 3 ethical considerations
Informed consent, Right to withraw, anonimity, confidentiality, do no harm, debriefing, justified deception, ethics review board, animal welfare
What are the 4 types of observations?
Covert, overt, participant, non-participant
When one variable increases, so does the other. What's this called?
A positive correlation.
What is it called when you give someone a treatment (e.g. pill or injection) that has no biological effects, but may have an effect if the person believes it will?
A placebo.
When do we have gender bias in a study?
When the sample is made up of only one gender
Why it's important to understand the relationship between studies and theories?
One reason is because studies form the important pieces of evidence that support the theories.
When one variable increases, the other decreases. What is this called?
Negative correlation.
Name one part of the brain that we will study in Criminology in our second unit (at least one part of the brain was mentioned in activities in the workbook)
frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex are both acceptable answers, as is the amygdala.
What do we call a situation in which the situation in which participants are tested is very artificial because so many EVs were controlled?
Low ecological validity
Why are true experiments used to investigate causal relationships?
Because extraneous variables can be controlled, so the IV can be isolated as the only variable influencing the DV.
What are two cons of using brain scanning technology?
Claustrophobia, loud, expensive, loe ecological validity, can only test one person at a time, etc.
What is a quasi-experiment?
An experiment in which the IV is naturally occuring and/or the random allocation to variables isn't possible
Name one neurotransmitter (at least one was mentioned in activities in this introduction unit).
Serotonin. Others include acetylcholine and dopamine.
Define ethical consideration
Issues that should be taken into account when planning, carrying out and reporting a study in order to protect the participants that are taking part.
What are two reasons why we might not be able to conclude a causational relationship from a study?
1) There are too many extraneous or confounding variables. 2) We do not know the direction of the relationship in the study (i.e. which variable is affecting which).
Covert observation
What is it called when we're not sure of the direction of influence in a relationship between two variables?
Bidirectional ambiguity
When is your psychology teacher's birthday?
October 24 obviously