BTEC Applied Psychology Final Exam.
Primary Data - CORRECT ANSWER Which term mean data that was previously unknown and which have been obtained directly by the researcher for a particular research project?
Secondary Data - CORRECT ANSWER Which term means data that is collected by someone othe...
BTEC Applied Psychology Final Exam.
Primary Data - CORRECT ANSWER Which term mean data that was previously unknown and which have
been obtained directly by the researcher for a particular research project?
Secondary Data - CORRECT ANSWER Which term means data that is collected by someone other than
the user?
Laboratory experiment - CORRECT ANSWER What method is an experiment carried out in a controlled
setting, with an IV and DV?
Field Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER Which method is an experiment that is carried out in a natural
setting in which the researcher manipulates the IV and records the effect of the DV.
Adaptive - CORRECT ANSWER What term means a physical or psychological characteristic that enhances
an individuals survival and reproduction, and is thus likely to be naturally selected for, and passed down
in the genes?
Aim - CORRECT ANSWER What term means a general statement of what the researcher intends to study
or investigate?
Anonymity - CORRECT ANSWER What is an important part of confidentiality , where a participant
remains anonymous, their name is withheld?
Antidepressant - CORRECT ANSWER What term refers to a group of drugs ie SSRI/Prozac which increase
serotonin levels?
Asch - CORRECT ANSWER Which key researcher into conformity - undertook a lines experiment, which
can explain NSI and ISI?
Bandura - CORRECT ANSWER Which key theorist evidences Social Learning theory - BOBO doll.?
, Behavioural categories - CORRECT ANSWER What term means dividing behaviours into individual
components and detailing them on a tally chart, all should be operationalised?
Behavioural Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER Systematic Desensitisation is what type of therapy?
Bias - CORRECT ANSWER Which term is where certain groups may be over represented, which limits the
extent to which generalisations can be made?
Biological approach - CORRECT ANSWER Which approach emphasises the important of physical
processes in the body such as genetic inheritance and neural functions?
BPS - CORRECT ANSWER Which is the abbreviation for the British Psychological Society?
Case Study - CORRECT ANSWER Which method in psychology, involves a detailed study of a single
individual?
Classical Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER What term means learning by association, and occurs when
two stimuli are repeatedly paired together - an unconditioned ( unlearned) stimulus (UCS) and a new
neural stimuli ( NS). Pavlov?
Cognitive approach - CORRECT ANSWER Which approach focuses on how our mental processes
( thoughts, perception, attention) affect behaviour?
CBT Cognitive Behavioural therapy - CORRECT ANSWER What is a method of treating mental disorders
based on both cognitive and behavioural techniques. Challenges negative thoughts?
Collectivist Culture - CORRECT ANSWER What term refers to a group of people who place more value on
the collective rather than the individual, on interdependence rather than independence. Typical of
eastern cultures such as Japan, China?
Compliance - CORRECT ANSWER What term means a superficial or temporary type of conformity where
we outwardly go along with the majority view, but privately disagree with it?
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