cognitive area Flashcards
what is a laboratory experiment?
an experiment taken place in a controlled environment with an independent and dependent variable
what is a schema?
stored units of knowledge about what things are, how to use them, how to behave
what is the cognitive area?
-our thoughts affect the way we feel and the way we behave
-like a computer, process info through input, throughput and output
what is quantitative data?
data is numerical in nature
what is reliability?
it refers to consistency within the research
what is ethical considerations?
this refers to what is acceptable/not acceptable to do with your participants
what is validity?
refers to how accurately something measures what it claim to be measuring
what is ethnocentrism?
judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s culture
what is the independent variable?
the thing you change in the experiment
what is the dependent variable?
the thing you measure in the experiment
what is the fovea?
an area at the back of the eye that is responsible for central, sharp vision
what is the two types of information that make up complex occurrence?
the actual event and post event
strength of cognitive behaviour
-scientific status
-lab conditions so there is control over extraneous variables allowing cause and effect
a practical application for cognitive?
generate therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy
weakness of cognitive area
-humans are different to computers
-we use instinct and are intuitive
-research can lack ecological validity
