Unit 2 Section A Exam Questions

Question 1

DV of maguire

Answer 1

A 3D volume measurement of Grey matter of the hippocampus of taxi drivers and non taxi drivers
As well as pixels of cross sectional area

Question 2

Strength of Maguire’s data

Answer 2

Maguire collected quantitative data in the form of a 3d volume measurement of hippocampus grey volume
this data can be easily compared against volume of taxi driver to non taxi driver to check if there is a significant difference in volume measurements between groups

Question 3

How is Casey’s study longitudinal?

Answer 3

Followed up same participants decades later from Mischel’s marshmallow test: participants were 4 years old
Then measured same concept of whether participants who were previously found to be high delayers were consistent in delaying gratification as adults in their 20s

Question 4

Bandura’s data

Answer 4

Initiative physical acts of aggression of boys who saw aggressive male model = 25.8
Same but who saw non aggressive male model = 1.5

Question 5

Extent to which Kohlberg’s theory is ethnocentric

Answer 5

To a small extent his study is ethnocentric
Because he travelled to many different countries such as Taiwan, Turkey and Mexico etc to interview boys on responses to moral dilemmas and sort them into a stage of his moral development theory thus found out his theory is universal and not just for western cultures
However his theory still expected to be species specific that moral development is constant across all cultures

Question 6

Bocchiaro’s research sample

Answer 6

149 undergrad students from Amsterdam VU university

Question 7

Sampling bias

Answer 7

Used only undergrad students so research is reflective of a student population
So results of whether participants wrote the letter to encourage friends to partake in sensory deprivation experiment or whistleblow by reporting to ethics committee is only showed by students

Question 8

Gould vs Hancock

Answer 8

Both research was conducted on all male samples
In gould’s study, 1.75 million men who were army recruits for WW1 completed study in which they completed an army alpha or beta test in order to determine their mental age
Where Hancock conducted study on 52 men in Canada who were incarcerated for murder in order to compare the corpus of their descriptions of their crime between those who were psychos and those who weren’t: find differences in use of emotive language etc