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Test 1 (Week 1/2) Flashcards

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ETHICAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

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  • Informed consent
  • Deception
  • Debriefing
  • Right to Withdraw
  • Protection from harm
  • Confidentiality
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INFORMED CONSENT

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  • Participants should be de-briefed with as much information as possible about the study to enable them to make an INFORMED JUDGEMENT as to take part or not
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DECEPTION

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  • ONLY to be used if there is no alternative
  • Should seek approval from ethics committee
  • Debriefing does not justify deception
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RIGHT TO WITHDRAW

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  • Must have participants that they are free to leave a study at ANY time; even if paid prior
  • Also can refuse permission for their data to be used
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PROTECTION FROM HARM

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  • Participants psychological and physical safety must be ensured
  • Cannot expose them to greater risk than their normal life experiences
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CONFIDENTIALITY

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  • Info about our participants is protected by the Data Protection Act
  • Must not be identifiable in published research eg. numbers
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DEBRIEFING

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  • After the experiment is complete participants must be ‘debriefed’ and informed of the motivations for the experiment
  • If deception has been used the true aim of the researchers must be revealed and consent be given by the participant
  • They must be given the chance to ask any questions they have
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HINDBRAIN

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  • Oldest part
  • Located deep within the head above the spinal cord
  • Controls most basic functions eg. heart rate, breathing, sleeping and reflex
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MIDBRAIN

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  • Sits on top of brain stem
  • Acts as brain sensory switchboard
  • Receives messages from all senses but smell and sends them on to higher brain regions that deal with senses
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FOREBRAIN

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  • Largest
  • Most highly developed
  • Major role in how we THINK, FEEL AND BEHAVE
  • Outer layer is known as the cortex; wrinked, soft, pinkey grey
  • Cortex has two halves; known as hemispheres separated by a deep groove
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CORPUS CALLOSUM

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  • Found in centre of brain
  • Connects two hemispheres
  • Controls both sides of the body whilst still receiving sensory information
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LEFT HEMISPHERE

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  • Logic
  • Language (comprehension)
  • Critical thinking
  • Numbers
  • Reasoning
  • Production of speech
  • Receives sensations from the right side of the body
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Sequencial processing
  • Math
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RIGHT HEMISPHERE

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  • Recognising faces
  • Expressing emotions
  • Music
  • Reading emotions
  • Colour
  • Images
  • Intuition
  • Creativity
  • Recognition of pattens
  • Spacial ability e.g. dance, movement, design
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FRONTAL LOBE

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  • Reasoning
  • Motor skills
  • Higher level cognition and language
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PARIETAL LOBE

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  • Processes sensory information
  • Contains somatosensory cortex
  • Located behind the frontal lobe
  • Also involved in coordination of senses and movement
  • Taste
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TEMPORAL LOBE

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  • Interprets sounds and language
  • Contains the hippocampus
  • Associated with the formation of memory
  • Smell
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BROCAS AREA

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  • Main area of cerebral cortex
  • Responsible for producing language
  • Damage to this leaves you with the ability to understand language but can’t properly form work or produce speech
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WERNICKES AREA

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  • Region of brain where spoken language is understood

- People with Wernickes Aphasia can understand language but can’t speak (often gibberish)

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PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX

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  • Strip of neurones located at the front of the parietal lobe, adjacent to motor cortex
  • Registers and processes sensory information from receptors in the body
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PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX

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  • Area of the temporal lobes that registers and processes auditory information
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PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX

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  • Area at the base of the occipital lobe that registers and processes and interprets visual information sent from each eye
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COGNITIVE PROCESSES

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  • Brain processes that involve thinking, knowing or mentally manipulating information
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COGNITION

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  • Thinking, knowing or mentally processing information
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SENSATION

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  • The immediate response in the brain caused by excitation of a sensory organ
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CEREBRUM

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  • Two large hemispheres that over the upper part of the brain
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PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX

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  • Area at the rear of the frontal lobe that directs body’s skeletal muscles and controls voluntary movement
  • Voluntary movement
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ASSOCIATION AREAS

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  • All areas of the cerebral cortex that don’t have a specialised sensory or motor function
  • Integrate information received from different brain areas and structures to enable complex mental behaviours
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OCCIPITAL LOBE

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  • Interprets visual stimuli
  • Contains the primary visual cortex
  • Reading

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