BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Small Sample-Not representative
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-sample only had right handed healthy females, results cannot be generalized to anyone else, reducing the validity
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The researchers injected adrenaline into the participants which represents an ethical issue
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Ethnocentric sample-not representative
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Detailed explanation-1: -The study has low generalizability. [1] The sample is all female, so the findings may not apply to males. [1] The sample is all right-handed, so the findings may not apply to left-handed individuals.
Detailed explanation-2: -RESULTS OF CANLI ET AL “Amygdala activation was significantly, bilaterally correlated with higher ratings of individually experienced emotional intensity . This represents first evidence that amygdala activation is related to the subjective sense of emotional intensity.
Detailed explanation-3: -The study used an fMRI machine (functional magnetic resonance imaging) which detects changes in blood flow in the brain to illustrate how the brain works during different tasks.
Detailed explanation-4: -Generalisability A limitation of Canli et al.is that it has low population validity. This is because participants in the study were 10 right-handed females and are not representative of the wider population since none were males or left handed. This presents a gender bias, more specifically a gynocentric bias.