Research Methods & Ethics
What is a testable prediction about the relationship between two variables?
What is a hypothesis?
What part of the brain processes visual information?
What is the occipital lobe?
What is mental health?
What is a state of wellbeing where an individual can cope with normal life stresses?
What is a materialistic purchase?
What is buying an object like a phone or clothes?
What is typical behaviour?
What is behaviour that is common or expected in a certain context?
Name the variable being measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
What carries messages from the brain to the body?
What is a motor neuron?
Name one symptom of anxiety.
What is excessive worry, restlessness, or rapid heartbeat?
What is Maslow’s bottom level of need?
What is physiological needs?
Define stigma.
What is a negative stereotype or label attached to mental illness?
Define the term 'extraneous variable'.
What is a variable other than the IV that could affect the DV?
What is the role of the myelin sheath?
What is to speed up electrical impulses in a neuron?
What does DSM stand for?
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
What is a set point of happiness?
What is a person's genetically determined baseline level of happiness?
What does the mental health continuum show?
What is the range from healthy to struggling to mental illness?
Explain the purpose of debriefing in research.
What is to inform participants about the true nature of the study after it ends?
This division of the autonomic nervous system is activated during stress and prepares the body for a 'fight or flight' response. Name three physical changes that occur.
What is the sympathetic nervous system? (Increased heart rate, dilated pupils, and slowed digestion)
What is CBT?
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
Explain the positivity ratio.
What is the idea that we need at least 3 positive emotions for every negative one to thrive?
Explain how psychopathy differs from general criminal behaviour.
What is that psychopaths show persistent antisocial traits and lack empathy?
Give one reason a study might be considered unethical.
What is lack of informed consent or causing psychological harm?
Name the main parts of the nervous system.
What is the Central, Peripheral, Autonomic, Somatic Parasympathetic, Sympathetic part of?
Give one biological, one psychological, and one social factor that may contribute to someone developing depression.
What are: a chemical imbalance (biological), negative thinking patterns (psychological), and family conflict or isolation (social)?
List Maslow’s hierarchy in order.
What is physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualisation?
Name the 3 D’s of mental illness diagnosis.
What are dysfunction, distress, and deviance?