OCR A-level Psychology: Evaluation of Core Studies 1

Flashcards on Core Studies Evaluations

A strength of the Bocchiaro study is the use of a __ which allowed strict control to be maintained over extraneous and confounding variables.

lab experiment

A weakness of the Bocchiaro study is that the findings may be __ because all of the participants involved in the pilot study were from the same university (VU University in Amsterdam) and were part of an individualist culture.

culture bound

A key methodological criticism for studies of EWT is that they often use the same, __ to identify.

young target

__ suggest that participants often want to be as helpful and attentive as possible, which means that, through the mechanism of social desirability bias, they are likely to give an answer which seems most beneficial or expected of the researcher, thus biasing the results and reducing the likelihood that the same results will be demonstrated again.

Zaragosa and McCloskey

The __ used by both Loftus and Palmer, alongside Gabbert, reduces the ecological validity of the findings and the mundane realism of the methodology.

artificial tasks and stimuli

An __ uses different participants in each condition, and so avoids the confounding problem of order effects.

independent measures design

Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment ignores the __ between boys and girls.

biological differences

Bandura also demonstrated the idea of __, where we operate on the environment but the environment also operates on us.

reciprocal determinism

A strength of Chaney et al's study is that it was conducted in the __. This removes the confounding variable of participant reactivity.

participants’ own homes

A weakness of Chaney et al's study is that the findings may have been affected/biased through __ due to the use of self- report measures.

social desirability bias

A limitation of Chaney et al's study is that the researchers did not control for the confounding variable of the __.

severity of each child’s asthma

A weakness of Sperry's study is the lack of control with the __.

sample selection

__ was pivotal in establishing the differences in functions between the two hemispheres, and so opposing the holistic theory of brain function.

Split-brain research

A strength of Casey et al's study is that the __ was large (562 four year old students) which produced a significant amount of data.

sample size

In Casey et al's study, __ was used to measure the brain activity of the patients - this is a highly objective and reliable measurement technique, with high temporal validity.

fMRI