Issues And Debates, Practical Issues

Question 1

How is Sebastian and hernandez ethical

Answer 1

Kept the school ppts attended came from private and they weren’t in stressful task as they were ask to remember list of numbers which is not traumatic

Question 2

How is HM unethical

Answer 2

Face and name was given out breaches confidentiality
No consent was given as ppt could not remember giving consent

Question 3

Practical issue of cognitive
Experimental design

Answer 3

Barlett
Used repeated measures same group of British students
Recall immediately
Recall a week after
Recall a year after

Question 4

Practical issue of cognitive
Experimental design
Pros (barlett)

Answer 4

Groups are compared against them selves eliminating inhert memory differences between ppl

Question 5

Practical issue of cognitive
Experimental design
Cons

Answer 5

Order effects
Fatigue effect

Question 6

Practical issue of cognitive
Validity design

Answer 6

Sebastian and hernandez gil
Task was to recall and increasing series of numbers 3 sets of 3 digits

Question 7

Practical issue of cognitive
Validity design
Cons

Answer 7

Poor real life comparsion
As ppl don’t remember random series of numbers in real life scenarios people remember numbers with significance to them like phone number or house number

Question 8

Example of lab experiments in cognitive how did the lab experiment make knowledge of memory bettwr

Answer 8

Some experiments have high internal validity for example baddeley
Use the common English words for the ppts making sure that it wouldn’t be a measure of learning hard works but the test on memory

Question 9

Example of lab experiments in cognitive how did the lab experiment make knowledge of memory bad

Answer 9

Some experiments have low Mundane realism for example Sebastian and hernandez gil As ppl don’t remember random series of numbers in real life scenarios people remember numbers with significance to them like phone number or house number

Question 10

Practical issue of cognitive
Validity design
Pros

Answer 10

Highly standardised
All the same numbers were gave to all ppts making sure that the

Question 11

Empiricism

Answer 11

Research should be based directly on observable behaviour so the effect is measured

Question 12

Hypothesis testing

Answer 12

Testing theories using clear predictions that can be accepted or rejected statement can be falseified

Question 13

Use of control

Answer 13

Experimental controls can limit the effect of extraneous variables and environmental variables leading to a cause effect relationship to be better developed

Question 14

Validity

Answer 14

Truthfulness of a score is the study actually measuring what it’s supposed to measure

Question 15

Reliability

Answer 15

The extent that a study findings can be replicated

Question 16

AO3 of I+D in psychology

Answer 16

Baddeley
Acoustically similar and Acoustically dissimilar
Semantically similar and Semantically dissimilar
72 college students from Cambridge
10 words each
Empirical: Semantically similar was recalled worst
Therefore cognitive is scientific

Question 17

Hypothesis testing A03

Answer 17

Barlett
British people told a native American story
Asked to recall the war of ghost story
Change canoe to boat forgot words like egula
It’s null hypothesis- ppts will recall the story as well as original version
One tailed- memory will change based on ppts schema and it was right