Psychology A Level (Ocr) Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

Retrieval {Ans: This is accessing the information that has previously been stored in the brain, so that it can be used.}Sampling method {Ans: The way that participants are selected.}Reliability {Ans: Consistency. This is how easily findings can be replicated. Sample and time effects reliability.}Structured Observation {Ans: This involves creating categories of expected behavior that they will find beforehand. This is also known as a coding system.}Snowball Sampling {Ans: You start out with a small group, who then themselves go on and get more participants.}Inattentional Blindness {Ans: They way that filter out visual information that isn't immediately relevant in favor of focusing our attention and visual activity on aspects of the environment that we see as relevant and meaningful to us at that particular time.}Operationalise {Ans: This is the ability to state variables clearly and precisely. This is because we need to retain the levels of replicability.}Unstructured Observation {Ans: Not planning any categories for what you are going to observe, just write down everything you see, no categories}Context Dependent Memory {Ans: Information is recalled better in the same environment conditions in which it learned.}Physiological/Biological Psychology {Ans: Explains behaviour in terms of