Scenario B

In Scenario B, the study exploring which colours are visually significant, there are a few incorrect statements made about how humans process colour perception. It explains in the study that scientists believe the part of the brain that processes colour is the parietal lobe in the cerebral cortex. This is false as the true processing of colour occurs in the temporal lobe in the cerebral cortex. As defined in class, the temporal lobe processes mainly hearing, but also allows us to perceive a large variety of colours (2).

This study also talks about the rods and cones in the structure of the eye and are primarily to process the visual information being perceived. They claim that the rods are the cells in control of detecting colours while our

There are different ways to analyze these methods to decide whether a study meets those expectations. In the past, procedures like the frontal lobotomy or electroshock therapy were being used to treat illnesses and diagnose problems. Today these methods are highly frowned upon as the psychology society has developed ways to analyze studies. They determine if the study’s findings are acceptable and ethical to all forms of life. In Scenario B, the study focuses on 12 participants, between the ages of 19 – 22 years old. Out of those 12, 75% of them were male and 25% were female. This can fall into the category of unrepresentative samples when using research methods. An unrepresentative sample is a group of participants or subjects that are being studied that may not embody the population proportionately. The researchers have used twice as many men in their study which could skew the results due to a lack of equality between genders. Another flaw is that there are only 12 participants in the entire study. The conclusions that are being drawn from these results are not capable of being applied to the entire population. This is because when such a small sample is tested, the researchers do not get a wide perspective of different ages, races, cultures and social interaction factors, for instance. Due to this generalization, the results that are concluded from the study are likely not applicable to a difference in population size and