Research Methods
A social psychologist is interested in whether chocolate improves memory.
What is the independent variable?
Chocolate
What is the correct name for the machine designed to detect and record changes in physiological characteristics, such as a person's pulse and breathing rates, used especially as a lie detector
Polygraph
Mental Health is represented along a...
Continuum
Any state of consciousness where our awareness is distinctly different to its normal levels is known as..
An altered state of consciousness
What are the two types of sleep?
Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) & Rapid Eye Movement (REM)
Which stage of sleep is dreaming most likely to occur?
REM
A social psychologist is interested in whether people will enjoy a video game more if they are paid for playing it.
What is the dependent variable?
Enjoyment of the video game
What is the name for the account a bystander or victim gives in the courtroom, describing what that person observed that occurred during the specific incident under investigation
Eyewitness Testimony
Which approach to normality suggests that thoughts, feelings & behaviours are viewed as normal if the individual is able to cope with living independently in society.
Functional Approach to Normality
Which type of attention involves choosing and attending to a specific stimulus to the exclusion of others
Selective attention
Which theory proposes that sleep provides ‘time out’
to help us recover from depleting activities during waking time that use up the
physical and mental resources?
Restoration theory
What is the name of the type of dreaming when you become aware that you are dreaming and are able to recognise your thoughts and emotions as the
dream happens?
Lucid Dreaming
Students who watch television while studying will perform better in an exam than students who do not watch television.
What is the experimental group?
Students who watch television
Which part of the brain is responsible for a person’s ability to feel remorse and guilt?
Amygdala
Which approach to normality suggests that thoughts, feelings & behavior that may be considered normal is one situation may be considered abnormal in another.
Situational Approach to normality
What is the name of the device that detects, amplifies and records electrical activity in the brain in the form of brainwaves.
Electroencephalograph (EEG)
Which stage of sleep is described as ‘moderately deep sleep’ and only lasts about 10 minutes?
NREM3
Identify one difference between a nightmare and a night terror
Either:
Nightmares occur during REM sleep and night terrors occur during NREM 3 & 4
Nightmares are usually remembered, night terrors not usually remembered
What is the name of the research design where each participant is randomly allocated to one of two (or more) entirely separate groups
Independent Groups
Which part of the brain is responsible for higher cognitive abilities such as problem-solving, decision making, planning and reasoning?
Prefrontal Cortex
Which factor increases susceptibility or vulnerability to developing a mental disorder (not causal)
Predisposing risk factor
Which psychological measure of consciousness refers to the extent to which a person controls the kind of content that enters their consciousness and thus what they pay attention to
Content limitations
Sleep phenomena such as sleep walking, night terrors, sleep talking and bedwetting may occur during which stage of sleep?
NREM4
Which dream theory proposes that dreams are meaningless narratives stitched together by the forebrain to make sense of the activation of biochemical changes in the brain.
Activation Synthesis Theory
What is the name of the research design that uses the same participants in both the experimental and control groups (conditions)
Repeated Measures
What is the name for environmental cues in a particular context (setting) that were present when a memory was formed
Context-dependent cues
Which factor maintains or prolongs the occurrence of a specific mental disorder and inhibits recovery?
Perpetuating risk factor
Which psychological measure of consciousness refers to the degree of awareness and efficiency of your perceptions and cognitions are changed in altered states of consciousness
Perceptual and Cognitive Distortions
In which stage of sleep do we enter into a relaxed state known as a hypnogogic state which is characterised by the sleeper seeing hallucinatory images and the sleeper experiences involuntary muscle movements such as the hypnic jerk?
NREM1
What is a limitation of the problem-solving dream theory?
Tends to only be for problems that can be visualised