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WorksheetsAttachment Lesson 11
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
What were the aims of Ainsworth's study?
To see if mothers are better care givers than fathers
To see at what age infants become attached to their caregivers
To see if there are individual differences in attachment
To see if there are problems with research into attachment
Define ecologial validity
The extent to which the findings of a research study can be applied to real life situations
The extent to which the findings of a reserch study can be applied to other people
The extent to which the research is ethical and prevents harm occuring to the participants
The extent to which there is consistency in the findings
What is social desirability bias?
When participants change their behaviour in order to deliberately mess up the study
When participants change their behaviour in order to look better than they actually are
When participants change their behaviour
When behaviour is measured accurately
Validity means the extent to which a study measures what it intends to measure
True
False
Why is the social context of a study important to consider?
Because society changes and so practices and behaviours that were being measured at one point in time may no longer be relevant in today's society
Because different cultures have differnt ways of doing things and so it would not be appropriate to apply findings from one culture to another
Because the aim of research is to find concepts that do not change over time
The hawthorne effect is when participants deliberately improve their behaviour becasue they know that they are being studied
True
False
What are extraneous variables?
Variables that the psychologist should have considered, that may have affected the dependent variable
Variables that the psychologist could not have predicted, that may have affected the dependent variable
The__________________suggests that babies are born with personality charaterisitcs that make them appear securely or insecurely attached
Caregiver hypothesis
Strange situation
Temperament hypothesis
The nature nurture debate
What are behavioural categories?
Categories of behaviour you would experct to see in an experiment
A list of behaviours that need to be displayed
Precise units of behaviour that can then be counted during an observation
A way of making an observation measurable
What is a controlled observation?
When participants are observed from a distance
When participants carry out their normal activities and they are observed covertly
When the participants perform a specific task set up by the researcher, and they are observed overtly
When the research participates in the observation
A______ observation occurs when the researcher joins in with the activities that the participants are completing
Overt
Covert
Participant
Non participant
