This study looked at the influence of the happiness on the Conscientiousness factor of the Big Five personality factors and this has been achieved by a sample consisted of 145 (121 females and 24 males) undergraduate Psychology students that completed two questionnaires, each questionnaire measuring a different variable. The interpretation of data has been done […]
Physical Attractiveness Of Defendant
Abstract The purpose of the investigation was to see if the physical attractiveness of a defendant has an influence of the severity of prison sentences given for a crime of fraud. An opportunity sample consisting of 10 males and 10 females taken from sixth form students at school aged 16-18 was used. A crime vignette […]
Perceptive Fields and the Hermann Grid Illusion
Measuring Perceptive fields using the Hermann Grid Illusion Lachlan Cox Abstract This study looks at how displacement of the fovea changes how the Hermann Grid illusion is shown at different bar widths. The first hypothesis was that the bar width at which the illusion was maximal would increase with increased eccentricity. The second hypothesis was […]
Muller-lyer illusion
Illusion 2Abstract The current experiment was based on the Muller-Lyer Illusion. There were 28 participants that were presented with two vertical lines that appeared on a screen. The line on the upper right of the screen had outward-drawn wings, and the line on the upper left had no wings. Participants were presented with a number […]
Major Depressive Disorder Assessment Strategies
Introduction The mental health problem that I have selected is Major Depressive Disorder. This can be recognized by low mood, low self-esteem and loss of pleasure in normal activities. This is known by many names such as clinical depression, unipolar depression and major depressive disorder. The symptoms interfere with all areas of a person’s life- […]
Link Between Obesity and Lack of Sleep
Zara J. Damania Abstract This study aims to investigate whether there is a bidirectional relationship between poor sleep quality, high body mass index (BMI) and disordered eating (binge-eating and night-time eating). Participants were a community-derived sample (N= 330) of people recruited through advertisements placed at the Australian National University (ANU) campus and a number of […]
Investigation into different levels of processing
The following study was based on the “levels of processing theory” put forward by Craick and Lochart (Craick & Lockhart, 1972), which states that we are more likely to recall information when deeper levels of processing are used. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between levels of processing and the relative […]
Intentional and Unintentional Learning Effect on Word Recall
An Investigation into Intentional and Incidental Learning and their Effectiveness when Recalling Words and the Effectiveness of Recalling Abstract and Concrete Words Nicole Canning Abstract This study was based on memory and the most effective ways to recall words, with the aim being to investigate whether intentional or incidental learning is most effective when recalling […]
Goodness Of Fit Of A Logistic Regression Model Psychology Essay
Logistic regression is a linear regression analysis to conduct when the dependent variable is dichotomous (binary).It is predictable and use to describe data and to explain relationship between one dependent binary variable and one or more metric independent variables. It assumes that dependent variable is a stochastic event (Dallag 2007, Field 2009, Gujarati, 2006, Sim […]
Examining the generation effect
Generation effect is a phenomenon which has been examined in this study. It has been widely found that high frequency words produce generation effect, whereas possibility of generation effect with low frequency words has been found lately. The present study was conducted to test whether generation effect is possible for low frequency words during free […]