Research Methods
A social psychologist is interested in whether chocolate improves memory.
What is the independent variable?
Chocolate
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
widely held standards that govern what people should and should not do in different situations, especially in relation to others
Social norms
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
each culture and ethnic group within that culture has its own set of norms about what is considered acceptable behaviour
Cultural perspectives
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 are our brain waves similar to when we are awake?
REM
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
Between subjects
Which factor (of the 4P model) helps to safeguard mental health and prevent the occurance of mental health disorders
Protective 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?
NREM3
What type of dream theory suggests that we dream to solve problems that occur in our waking life?
Problem solving theory
What is the name of the research design that uses the same participants in both the experimental and control groups (conditions)
Within subjects
Type of behaviour that interferes with the person’s ability to carry out their usual activities in an effective way.
Maladaptive behavior
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
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