Freeman Flashcards
what is the context of VR
What was Vr mainly used for:
is used to investigate spatial awereness and other cognitive skills.as well as soical interaction.
What is VR also used for
lately VR has been used to treat psycholgical disorders like phobia’s and anxiety disorders
and to reduce fear of public speaking with avaters.
what is persecuirty ideation
is the belief that a person wants to hurt you, despite there being no evidence to back this up.or thinking someone is being hostile towards you
Persuityry ideation can reduce qulity of like highly and can lead to socail withdrawl
define VR
a computer genarated simultion where a person uses specail goggle and screan to interact with a a3 dimintal envorment
AIM
-To investigate whether people without history of mental illness have thoughts of a persecutory nature in virtual reality.
-To determine whether there are cognitive or emotional factors that predict the likelihood of persecutors ideation being shown in VR
alternative
-this study examined wheatear neutral, non threating avaters could provoke persecutory toughts in people with no prevouis clinical diagnoeses and whether tis was more common in peole with higher levels of paranoia and emotianl distress
hypothies
that a small number of partispants would have thoughts of persecutory ideation bing shown in VR ,and that these people would have higher level of emotional distress and paranoia
METHADOLGY (type of study)
correlational based on quantitive data using a questioner
and qualtivtive data was gaterd by simi structured interview
sample
Volunteer sampling
-Responding to an ad within the University College London.
-12 male
-12 female
-mean age is 26
-all paid
-all mentaly well
-non clinical
-23 studants
-3 admin staff
type of experiment
lab
what type of seen was the VR
library
