Maguire et al.'s Study of Taxi Drivers' Brains
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- Created on: 30-10-19 12:27
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2. What was the third control, other than handedness and gender, matched for?
- Age
- Time Driving A Taxi
- Time After taking "The Knowledge"
- BMI
3. What was the research method?
- Quasi Experiment
- Laboratory Experiment
- Correlational Analysis
- Controlled Obervation
4. What is VBM?
- Using a template based on 13 of the control group to measure the grey matter in the hippocampi
- Measuring the grey matter visible in at least 26 slices of each hippocampi
- A brain scanning technique that was used to determine the mass of grey matter in the hippocampi to ensure concurrent validity
- A test on spatial awareness taken by all participants. They were marked out of 50
5. How were members of the control group selected?
- 50 most recent patients to have an MRI scan which found nothing wrong in an American hospital
- Opportunity Sample of students from Cambridge University
- Sample who had MRI scans in an accessible database
- Volunteer sample of students from Stanford University
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