MAGUIRE
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- RESEARCH METHOD OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?natural experiment
- DESIGN OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?independent groups
- IV OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?taxi driver or not
- DV OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?volume of grey matter in hippocampus
- SAMPLE OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?16 healthy, right-handed, male London taxi drivers who had all completed 'The Knowledge'
- CONTROL GROUP OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?50 healthy, right-handed males who didn't drive taxis
- PROCEDURE OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- MRI to scan brains
- Uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images inside brain
- Use pictures to measure amount of grey matter in hippocampus
- Compared to amount in taxi drivers' brains to control group
- FINDINGS OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- significantly more grey matter in taxi drivers' hippocampi than in control group
- number of years they had been a taxi driver positively correlated with the amount of grey matter
- CONCLUSION OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?brain has plasticity and experiences such as driving taxis can cause physical changes in the brain areas involved in memory
- STRENGTHS OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- objective, scientific measurements (MRI)
- real world application
- control group
- LIMITATIONS OF MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- cause and effect
- beta bias
- OBJECTIVE, SCIENTIFIC MEASUREMENTS ARGUMENT FOR MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- no demand characteristics/ social desirability
- increases internal validity
- REAL WORLD APPLICATION ARGUMENT FOR MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- help development of treatment
- for brain trauma patients
- CONTROL GROUP ARGUMENT FOR MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- significant difference
- can establish cause and effect
- increases internal validity
- CAUSE AND EFFECT ARGUMENT FOR MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- did not measure structure of brain before completing 'The Knowledge'
- may have become taxi drivers due to existing difference
- BETA BIAS ARGUMENT FOR MAGUIRE'S RESEARCH?
- only male sample
- based on men's experiences only
- results lack generalisability