6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (THE FUNCTION OF THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM: GLANDS & HORMONES) Flashcards by Jason Ashton

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BLOCK A Y13 PSYCHOLOGY FLASH CARDS (115 decks)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (ASCH)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (VARIABLES AFFECTING CONFORMITY )

1. SOCIIAL INFLUENCE (Types of Conformity)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Explanations of Conformity)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Conformity to social roles as investigated by Zimbardo)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Explanations Of Obedience As Investigated By Milgram)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Explanations of obedience – Situational variables)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Explanations for obedience - Agentic State and Legitimacy of Authority)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Dispositional explanations for obedience: The Authoritarian Personality)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Explanations of resistance to social influence: social support/locus of control)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Minority influence, including consistency, commitment and flexibility)

1. SOCIAL INFLUENCE (Social change)

2. MEMORY (Coding, capacity & duration of SM/STM & LTM)

2. MEMORY (The Multi-Store Model of Memory (MSM))

2. MEMORY (The Working Memory Model)

2. MEMORY (Types Of Long-Term Memory: Episodic, Semantic, And Procedural)

2. MEMORY (Explanations of forgetting: 1. Proactive and retroactive interference 2. Retrieval failure due to absence of cues)

2. MEMORY (Factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: misleading information, including leading questions and post-event discussion)

2. MEMORY (Anxiety as a factor affecting the accuracy of EWT)

2. MEMORY (Improving the accuracy of EWT, including the use of cognitive interviews)

3. ATTACHMENT (Caregiver-infant interactions in humans: reciprocity and interactional synchrony)

3. ATTACHMENT (Stages of attachment identified by Schaffer and multiple attachments)

3. ATTACHMENT (The role of the father)

3. ATTACHMENT (Animal studies of attachment)

3. ATTACHMENT (Explanations of attachment: Learning theory)

3. ATTACHMENT (Explanations of attachment: Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory. The concepts of a critical period and an internal working model)

3. ATTACHMENT (Ainsworth’s ‘Strange Situation’. Types of attachment: secure, insecure-avoidant, and insecure-resistant)

3. ATTACHMENT (Cultural Variations in Attachment)

3. ATTACHMENT (Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation)

3. ATTACHMENT (Romanian orphan studies: Effects of institutionalisation)

3. ATTACHMENT (The influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships, including the role of an internal working model)

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (DEFINITIONS OF ABNORMALITY (INCLUDING DEVIATION FROM SOCIAL NORMS, FAILURE TO FUNCTION ADEQUATELY, STATISTICAL INFREQUENCY AND DEVIATION FROM IDEAL MENTAL HEALTH) (

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (BEHAVIOURAL, EMOTIONAL AND COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PHOBIAS, DEPRESSION AND OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD))

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (THE BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO EXPLAINING PHOBIAS (THE TWO PROCESS MODEL, INCLUDING CLASSICAL AND OPERANT CONDITIONING)

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (THE BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO TREATING PHOBIAS: SYSTEMATIC DESENSITISATION, INCLUDING RELAXATION AND USE OF HIERARCHY; FLOODING)

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (THE COGNITIVE APPROACH TO EXPLAINING DEPRESSION (BECK’S NEGATIVE TRIAD AND ELLIS’S ABC MODEL; COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY, INCLUDING CHALLENGING IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS))

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (THE COGNITIVE APPROACH TO TREATING DEPRESSION)

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (THE BIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO EXPLAINING AND TREATING OCD: GENETIC AND NEURAL EXPLANATIONS)

4. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (THE BIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO TREATING OCD)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (THE DIVISIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL (SOMATIC AND AUTONOMIC))

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF SENSORY, RELAY AND MOTOR NEURONS)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (THE PROCESS OF SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION – INCLUDING REFERENCE TO NEUROTRANSMITTERS, EXCITATION, AND INHIBITION)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (THE FUNCTION OF THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM: GLANDS & HORMONES)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE – INCLUDING THE ROLE OF ADRENALINE)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (LOCALISATION OF FUNCTION IN THE BRAIN)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (SPLIT-BRAIN RESEARCH / HEMISPHERIC LATERLAISATION)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (PLASTICITY & FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY OF THE BRAIN AFTER TRAUMA)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (WAYS OF STUDYING THE BRAIN: FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (FMRI); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM AND EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS (ERPS); POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (INFRADIAN RHYTHMS)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (ULTRADIAN RHYTHMS)

6. BIOPSYCHOLOGY (THE EFFECT OF ENDOGENOUS PACEMAKERS AND EXOGENEOUS ZEITGEBERS ON THE SLEEP/WAKE CYCLE)

5. APPROACHES (Origins Of Psychology: Wundt, Introspection And The Emergence Of Psychology As A Science)

5. APPROACHES (The Behaviourist Approach)

5. APPROACHES (Social Learning Theory)

5. APPROACHES (The Cognitive Approach)

5. APPROACHES (The Biological Approach)

5. APPROACHES (The Psychodynamic Approach (Part 1))

5. APPROACHES (The Psychodynamic Approach (Part 2))

5. APPROACHES (The Humanistic Approach)

5. APPROACHES (Comparison of approaches)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Experimental Method)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Types of experiment (Laboratory, Field, Natural and Quasi))

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Sampling (Population and sample, Opportunity, Volunteer, Random, Systematic and Stratified))

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Ethical issues and ways of dealing with them)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Correlations)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Observation (Techniques and design))

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Self-report techniques (Questionnaires & Interviews))

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Types of data (Qualitative/Quantitative, Primary/Secondary, Measures of Central tendency & Measures of dispersion))

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Graphs (Presentation of quantitative data, the maths bit and distributions))

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Case Studies)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Content and Thematic analysis)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Reliability)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Validity)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Reporting psychological investigations)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Features of a Science)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Sign test)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Design a study)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Statistical testing)

7. RESEARCH METHODS (Interpreting inferential statistics)

11. ISSUES & DEBATES (ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH STUDIES AND THEORY, INCLUDING REFERENCE TO SOCIAL SENSITIVITY)

11. ISSUES & DEBATES (IDIOGRAPHIC & NOMOTHETIC DEBATE)

11. ISSUES & DEBATES (HOLISM & REDUCTIONISM DEBATE)

11. ISSUES & DEBATES (THE NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE))

11. ISSUES & DEBATES (FREE WILL & DETERMINISM)

11. ISSUES & DEBATES (CULTURE BIAS)

11. ISSUES & DEBATES (GENDER BIAS)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Evolutionary Explanations for Partner Preferences)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Factors Affecting Attraction - Self-Disclosure))

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Factors Affecting Attraction - Physical Attractiveness)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Factors Affecting Attraction - Filter Theory)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Theories of Romantic Relationships - Social Exchange Theory)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Theories of Romantic Relationships - Equity Theory)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Rusbult’s Investment Model)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Duck's Model of Relationship Breakdown)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Virtual Relationships)

8. RELATIONSHIPS (Parasocial Relationships)

Symptoms of schizophrenia

Classification of schizophrenia

Reliability and validity in diagnosis

Biological explanation of schizophrenia

Psychological explanation of schizophrenia

Biological treatment of schizophrenia

Psychological treatment of schizophrenia

Addiction - describing addiction

Addiction - risk factors

Addiction - biological explanation of addiction

Addiction - learning theory of nicotine addiction

Addiction - learning theory of gambling

Addiction - cognitive explanation of gambling

Addiction - treating addiction (drug therapy)

Addiction - treating addiction (behavioural interventions)

Addiction - treating addiction (CBT)

Addiction - theory of planned behaviour

Addiction - Prochaska's model of behavioural change