When a person is under the control of an authority figure
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Alturism
Helping behaviour. Putting other people before your self
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Attachment
The strong emotional bond between a person and someone/something
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• Behaviourism
An approach to Psychology that believes that all behaviour can be explained by the learning theory.
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Bystander behaviour
The theory that within a potential helping scenario the presence of other people reduces the victim's chances of recieving help
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Gender Identity
The part of your self concept that identifies with a gender
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Hypothesis
When Psychologists conduct experiments they formulate hypotheses. Hypotheses are both testable statements and predictments. The experiment is designed to test the hypotheses.
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Minimal Group
A group that has nothing in common and therefore group identification is based on nothing meaningful.
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Natural Experiment
When the Independent variable in an experiment is naturally occuring and is not manipulated by the experimenter. E.g. Gender
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Observation
A research method that involves watching people
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Personality
A person's relatively stable set of characteristics.
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independant variable
something that is changed in an experiment
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dependant variable
the thing tha gets meassured in an experiment
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controlled variable
the thing that stays the same throughout an experiment
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how do you conduct a fair test
You conduct a fair test by making sure that you change one factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same.
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why is a fair test needed in an experiment?
Conducting a fair test is one of the most important ingredients of doing good, scientifically valuable experiments. to make sure your results are reliable.
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