Research Methods I

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts from the Research Methods I lecture, including methods of assessment, the DASS-21, and cognitive psychological experiments.

Reference Manager

A software tool that helps researchers organize and manage citations and references for academic papers.

Questionnaires

A method of assessment often easy to implement, also online, but with certain advantages and disadvantages.

Computer tasks

A method of assessment often implemented in a lab, with certain advantages and disadvantages.

DASS-21

A 21-item self-report scale designed to measure the emotional states of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Depression scale (DASS-21)

Assess dysphoria, hopelessness, devaluation of life, self-deprecation, lack of interest/involvement, anhedonia and inertia.

Anxiety scale (DASS-21)

Assess autonomic arousal, skeletal muscle effects, situational anxiety, and subjective experience of anxious affect.

Stress scale (DASS-21)

Sensitive to levels of chronic non-specific arousal; assesses difficulty relaxing, nervous arousal, and being easily upset/agitated, irritable/over-reactive and impatient.

Cognitive Psychological Experiments

To measure behavioural responses under specific conditions that are informative about cognitive functions.

Computer Tasks

Behavioural indices of inhibitory control (go/nogo tasks) / stimuli processing (local/global processes using navon task), visuospatial attention (posner paradigm) etc.

Degree of inhibitory control

Proportion of successful inhibitions.