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1
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What is random sampling?

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Equal opportunity to be selected

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2
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Dependent variable?

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Measured in response to the IV

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3
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Stratified sampling?

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Population divided into groups called strata, a sample is drawn from this

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4
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Independent variable?

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Of interest to the researcher. Does it cause an effect?

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5
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Control group?

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Do not receive the IV. Used to compare results

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6
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Extraneous variable?

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Influence the DV and affect results

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7
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What does the placebo effect refer to?

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The participants behaviour being influenced by their expectations of how they should behave, believing they have had the treatment

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8
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Experimenter effect?

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Refers to the outcome of the experiment by unintentionally influenced by the experimenter

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9
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What does the brain control?

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Movement and balance, learning, memory, sleeping and dreams, senses, thinking and emotions, hormones and automatic processes

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10
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What side of the body does the left side of the brain control?

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Right side

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What does the right side of the brain control?

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Creative stuff, like music and art

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What does the left side of the brain control?

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Technical stuff, like language and maths

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13
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Which lobe is responsible for vision?

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Occipital

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14
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What love is responsible for temperature?

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Parietal

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15
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Which lobe is emotions, personality and complex thoughts?

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Frontal

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16
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Which lobe is jigsaw puzzles, maths, senses

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Parietal

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17
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Which lobe is vision all images?

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Occipital

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18
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Which part of the brain is balance and co-ordination?

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Cerebellum

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19
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Which part of the brain is speech, process and recognise?

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Temporal

20
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Which part of the brain is breathing, heart rate, taste

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Brain stem

21
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Sensory info such as vision, smell and hearing. Higher cognitive functions.

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Cerebral cortex

22
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Connects the left and right hemispheres to coordinate info

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Corpus collosum

23
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Controls breathing, heart rate and blood pressure; reflex actions such as vomiting and sneezing

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Medulla oblongata

24
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Involved in control of visual and auditory systems. Also controls body movement

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Midbrain

25
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Produces hormones that control growth, sexual development and metabolism

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Pituitary gland

26
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Homeostasis: controls body temperature and osmoregulation. Secreted hormones

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Hypothalamus

27
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What’s a CT scan?

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Machine that X Ray’s your brain to identify and detect problems like tumours

28
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What does MRI stand for and mean?

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Magnetic resonance imaging

Uses high level magnetic field and radio waves to image soft issues, for diagnosing tumours, clots, infections and brain damage

29
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What’s FMRI?

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Monitors changes in brain activity

30
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What is the experimental group?

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Group of participants who will recieve the IV

31
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Name the 7 parts of a neuron

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Nucleus
Dendrites
Cell body (soma)
Electrical impulse
Oxons
Oxon terminal 
Synaptic gap
32
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What do neurons do?

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Transmit messages in the form of an electrical impulse

33
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What is REM sleep?

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Rapid eye movement sleep, where 90 per cent of dreaming occurs

34
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Which theory is this; the storyline of a dream is known as the manifest content. Contains dream symbols that can offer insights into our underlying wishes and thoughts

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Sigmund Freuds psychoanalytic dream theory

35
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Which theory is this; dreams have a purpose and help solve problems, when we dream we sort out problems experienced during our waking life

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Cartwrights Problem-solving theory

36
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Which theory is this; dreams are meaningless and should not be subjected to interpretation. Neurons are randomly activated from the brain stem

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Hobson and mccarleys activation-synthesis theory

37
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What are Plutchik’s eight primary emotions?

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Fear
Anger
Joy
Disgust
Anticipation
Surprise 
Sadness
Trust
38
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What’s subjective experience?

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What we feel and label as an emotion

Eg. Feeling ecstatic because your team won

39
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What is expressive behaviour?

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What others can see about what we are feeling

Eg. Jumping up and down when the final siren sounded

40
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What is physiological arousal?

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Aspects in the body, changes in heart rate, breathing rate, sweating

41
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In personal space, what is 0-45cm

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Intimate (relationships)

42
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In personal space, what is 45cm-120cm

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Personal (close friends)

43
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In personal space, what is 120cm-3.7m

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Social (acquaintances)

44
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In personal space, what is 3.7m-7.5m

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Public (strangers)

45
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What is verbal cues?

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What you actually say

46
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What is paralingual cues?

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How you say your words (tone, pitch, um, ahh, etc..)

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