Psychology Flashcards
What’s vicarious reinforcement?
Learning from someone from the things they have done right or wrong?
What’s a role model?
Someone we look up too
What’s the amygdala?
The amygdala is a structure in the brain that recognises emotion
The amygdala is a part of the brain that’s likely to be responsible for
Aggression
Who inspired Anderson and Dills study?
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
What’s an independent variable?
The factor which is changed by the researcher in an experiment to make two or more conditions.
What’s the dependent variable?
The factor which is measured in an experiment
In Anderson and Dills study, what was the non- violent game used?
Myst- a 3D interactive non violent nature game
In Anderson and Dills study, what was the violent game used?
Wolfenstien 3D- selected because of its violent content, realism and human characters
During Anderson’s and Dills study what was the cover story?
“The learning curve”
-they told them they were studying how people learn and do motor tasks and cognitive tasks
In Anderson and Dills study the participants were selected by?
Their trait irritability score
In Anderson and Dills study what happened after 15 minuets of playing?
They played a competitor reaction test game against the ‘opponent’
In Anderson and Dills theory, what could the Person who pressed the button fastest do?
Inflict a blast of white noise volume and duration decided by winner
In Anderson and Dills study what were 2 of the results?
The loudest and longest blasts were given by the people who played Wolfenstien 3D (the violent game)
Women gave greater punishments than men
What was the conclusion in Anderson and Dills study?
Playing violent video games increase levels of aggression, particularly in women
Name 3 strengths of Anderson and Dills study.
Laboratory experiment means that researchers had a lot of contort over variables results are reliable and test can be repeated exactly.
There was a large sample
Findings have useful applications in the real world (video game age restrictions)
What part of the eye detect light?
Rods
What part of the eye works in dim light?
Rods
What part of the eye only work in bright light?
Cones
What is sent along the optic nerve?
Nerve impulses
Rods and cones make up the what?
Retina
What do comes make up?
Colour
Rods do what?
Light and shade
Where is the blind spot?
The retina
What’s superimposition?
Something in front of something else
What’s linear perspective?
Parallel lines in the distance spear to come together.
Ponzo illusion
What’s texture gradient?
We see a lot of detail at the front and as we go further back the less detail we see
What’s the Height of the plane?
The higher something is in the plane away from the horizon the closer it seems
What’s relative size?
The further away something is the smaller it looks
Who explained illusions?
Gregory, we’re fooled by illusions.
What are ponzo?
A distortion
What is content analysis
A research method used to measure the number of times a behaviour or even occurs within media
What was Charlton et al study aim
To investigate the effects of television on children’s behaviour
Conclusion of Charlton et al’s study
Tv doesn’t have a significant effect on children’s behaviour even if violence was watch it wasn’t copied
