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An evaluation made about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation
Attribution
What are the three components of the tri component model of attitudes?
Affective, behavioural, cognitive
Focusing on one stimulus or task across a prolonged, continuous period of time.
sustained attention
Write down the stages of sensation and perception
Reception, transduction, transmission, selection, organisation, interpretation
The variable that is manipulated by the researcher
IV
List one of the 5 cognitive biases
Confirmation bias, actor observer bias, self-serving bias, false-consensus bias, halo effect
An evaluation of something, such as a person, object, event or idea.
attitude
What are the give basic flavours we can sense?
Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami
Refers to splitting attention across two or more stimuli at one time.
divided attention
which experimental design is being described?
Participants in each group are exposed to every condition
Disadvantage – can produce order effects
within subjects design
A negative label associated with disapproval or rejection by others who are not labelled in that way
stigma
The psychological tension that occurs when our thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviours do not align with one another
cognitive dissonance
What are the two types of perceptual processing?
Bottom up and top down
List one biological factor that may influence gustatory perception
age, genetics (supertaster)
The variable that is measured by the researcher & serves as a baseline for comparison.
DV
A group that an individual belongs to or identifies with
A group that an individual does not belong to or identify with
(two definitions)
In group and out group
Occurs when we judge behaviour as being caused by something personal within an individual
internal attribution
involves exclusively focusing attention on a specific stimulus or task while ignoring all other stimuli
selective attention
is a disorder involving the loss or impairment of the ability to recognise familiar stimuli through the use of one or more senses, despite the senses functioning normally otherwise.
Usually occurs as the result of brain damage
2 different forms of this
Agnosia
What type of sampling procedure is this?
Ensures that everyone in the population has an equal chance of being selected
random sampling
Tendency to explain other people’s behaviour in terms of internal factors, while ignoring possible external factors.
Fundamental attribution error
The unjust treatment of people due to their membership within a certain social category
Discrimination
What are the two types of photo receptors that lie in the retina?
rods and cones
individuals who have significantly low thresholds for taste stimuli and an unusually high number of taste buds
supertaster
List one ethical guideline
Voluntary participation, informed consent, withdrawal rights, debriefing, deception, confidentiality