summative 6

Uea bronze award skills

communication, teamwork, leadership, problem solving, self-management, professionalism, digital literacy and IT

cognitive bias definition

a systematic error in thinking

attentional bias

cognitive bias wherein negative stimuli are attended to moreso than competing neutral stimuli

interpretive bias

cognitive bias tendency to interpret ambiguous information as negative

memory bias

cognitive bias wherein memory performance is enhacned for negative information

Transience

one of the seven sins of memory which involves decreasing accessibility of information over time

1970s-80s roots of social constructionism and ‘turn to language’

crisis in social psychology

the professional

the ‘agent of remedy’ according to the medical model of disability

dominant approaches in forensic psychology…

provide valuable insights into therapeutic intervention

the age at which children typically pass the mirror self-recognition test

18-24 months

big 5 personality trait NEGATIVELY related to all 3 components of the dark triad

agreeableness

dark triad

narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy

big 5 personality traits Openness Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

damage to the medial prefrontal cortex abolishes…

the self-reference effect

fitness

when a gene makes a large contribution to the next generation’s gene pool

to test for normality between-groups…

divide skewness and kurtosis by their respective standard error, if all values are between ±1.96 then data is normal

to test for normality within-groups…

calculate difference between participants’ two scores, test normality for difference variable with skewness and kurtosis divided by their standard error as normal

non parametric correlations are more robust because…

they are based on ranks

non parametric test of difference between two groups

mann Whitney U

milgram (1963) ethics violation per modern standards…

deception which did not mitigate harm to participants

inductive analysis

driven by data without preconceived outcomes derived from theory or existing literature

transferability

whether findings are applicable in other contexts

dependability

whether similar findings would be produced if a different research carried out the research

Confounding variable

uncontrolled variable which could influence IV or DV causing misleading results

nominal/categorical

lowest level of measurent for DV, chi square

ordinal

middle level of measurement for DV, Mann Whitney or Wilco on

ratio and interval

highest level of measurement for DV, t-tests regression correlation

t-tests

for differences between groups ie two experiemtnal conditions, categorical IV & continuous DV

if same participants do both conditions + normally distributed

paired samples t test

if different participants do respective conditions + normally distribute

indepdendent samples t-test

if not normally distributed

sample mean and std dev are no longer representative of the population, cannot use t-test

if same participants do both conditions + not normally distributed

mann Whitney u

if different participants do respective conditions + not normally distributed

wilcoxon w

correlation

r(degrees of freedom) = correlation coefficient, p = p value

chi square

x^2(degrees of freedom) = correlation coefficient, p = p value

t-test

t(degrees of freedom) = test statistic, p = p value

ANOVA

F(degrees of freedom) = test statistic, p = p value

Mann Whitney

U = test statistic, p = p value, N = number of participants

wilcoxon

W = test statistic, p = p value, N = number of participants

descriptive statistics

mean (M), standard deviation (SD), median (Mdn)

quantitative reserach

test associations, relationships, and differences

qualitative research

explores nuanced and complex issues of human behaviour

furman and Shaffer (2011)

women have more sexual contact with committed romantic partners than men, men have more sexual contact woth casual acquaintances than women, both have sex most frequently in committed romantic relationships

banker et al (2010)

qualitative narrative analysis highlighting hierarchy to relationship types, young adults often uncertain about the relationship they are in

SPE (1971)

failed to let participants withdraw, to monitor and deal with escalation, to protect participants

Z = (your score - mean score) / standard deviation

t = difference in means / standard error of difference variable

systematic variation

genuine effect

unsystematic variation

not due to the effect of interest ie natural individual differences

type 1 error

declaring an effect significant when not

type 2 error

declaring an effect insignificant when is

thematic analysis phases

familiarisation, coding, initial theme generation, developing reviewing themes, refining defining naming themes, producing report

interpretation of language use

thematic analysis

social, humanistic, critical, applied psychology

associated with qualitative research

1970s inc tajfel 1972

critique of experimental studies and questionnaire work

parker 1989

crisis in social psychology