keywords/other

• standardisation

  controlling extraneous variables so that they are kept the same across conditions
• Wechsler memory scale

  diagnostic tool used to evaluate brain damage extent in patients who have suffered injury or illness
• confabulation

  making up detail to complete a memory

  not intentional / to decieve
• holism


  the importance of seeing people as individuals

  • no one approach or theory can explain all behavviour
• hypothalamus

  controls a number of key bodily functions
• pineal gland

  endocrine gland that produces melatonin
• innate

  born with
• invariant


  does not change or vary
• primary care trust

  part of nhs in England covering different parts of the country
• seriation

  ability to rank things in order
• skewed distribution

  where data has asymmetric distribution as scores are clustered towards an extreme
• slow wave sleep

  type of deep sleep where brain activity slows
• readiness

  children aren't ready to learn certain things until they reach a certain stage of development
• rehearsal vs meaning

  criticism of msm, meaningful things can be recalled without rehearsal
• reticular activation system

  neural network, mediates consciousness and alertness
• self fulfilling prophecy

  individual behaves in a way an assumption about them expects them to
• neuroticism

  how anxious an individual is
• non participant observation

  observing from a distance
• order effects

  negatively impact research as participants follow same order of conditions in an experiment
• parasympathetic nervous system

  division of nervous system that regulates organ or gland fountains during rest, counters the response of sympathetic nervous system
• sympathetic nervous system

  division of nervous system that control the fight or flight response when someone faces stress
• positive symptoms of schizophrenia

  thoughts and feelings that the individual does not usually have when they are well like hallucinations and delusions
• psychopath

  mental illness defined by having a lack of empathy fro others and a tendency to act immorally