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Behaviourist Approach

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Study things that are observable and measureable
* Behaviour is learned
* Learning is the same for all species
* Classical conditioning
* Operant conditioning

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Behaviourist Approach

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  • RWA - treatments for phobias
  • RWA - token economies
  • Speed of associations
  • Skinner’s boxes
  • Pavlov and Little Albert
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Behaviourist

Conditioning Timing

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too long between NS and US means no conditioning

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Behaviourist

Extinction

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If over time, the conditioned response stops happening the association may cease

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Behaviourist

Spontaneous Recovery

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If the CS and the UCS are linked again after extinction, the association happens faster

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Behaviourist

Stimulus Generalisation

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Once conditioned, similar stimuli will ellict the same response

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Humanistic Approach

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Asks how people grow and develop into their best selves
* Self actualisation
* The self
* Treatments

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Humanistic

Self Actualisation

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Becoming the best you you can be
Ideal self = self concept
Top of Mazlow’s hierarchy

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Humanistic

The Self

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Self concept is who you feel you are
Ideal self is who you want to be
Incongruence is when these are different

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Humanistic

Treatments

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Unconditional positive regard for self esteem issues
Client centred therapy focusses on reducing incongruence

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Humanistic

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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  1. Self actualisation
  2. Esteem
  3. Love and Belonging
  4. Safety needs
  5. Physiological needs
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Humanistic Approach

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  • Culture bias
  • CC therapy suitable for self esteem issues
  • Deficiency needs met = better at academics
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Wundt

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Father of psychology
Moved away from philosophy to the scientific method
Identify stucture of the mind by breaking behaviours into elements
Structuraliusm

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Introspection

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Where a person examines their own thoughts and feelings caused by certain stimuli
Wundt trained his students to be objective
Made a standardised procedure

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Wundt and Introspection

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  • Scientific
  • Accuracy of self report
  • Implicit association (have no conscious knowledge of it)
  • Positive contributions
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Social Learning Theory

Mediational Processes

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  1. Attention
  2. Retention
  3. Reproduction
  4. Motivation
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Social Learning Theory

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Learning indirectly via imitation of role models
* real or symbolic

Identification
* the extent to which an individual relates to a model
* more similar = same outcomes

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Social Learning Theory

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  • Bandura
  • Boys vs Girls in Bandura (biology?)
  • Positive TV programs study
  • Violent TV programs study
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Cognitive Approach

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  • Schema
  • Theoretical models
  • Computer models

Processes studied indirectly using inferences
Cognitive neuroscience uses computers

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Cognitive

Schemas

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Cognitive framework that helps us to organise and interpret information

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Cognitive Approach

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  • RWA - CBT
  • Office and schema
  • artificial studies
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Psychodynamic Approach

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  • Unconscious
  • Personality
  • Defense mechanisms
  • Psychosexual stages
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Psychodynamic

Psychosexual Stages

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  1. Oral
  2. Anal
  3. Phallic
  4. Latency
  5. Genital
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Psychodynamic Approach

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  • Case studies
  • Unfalsifiable
  • RWA - talking therapies
  • Women - alpha bias
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Biological Approach

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Everything psychological is first biological
* Genetic similarity
* Concordance rates
* Genotype vs phenotype
* Natural Selection
* Neural and neurochemical

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Biological Approach

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  • RWA - treatments
  • Scientific
  • Biological determinism
  • Biological reductionism
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Biological

Genotype vs Phenotype

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Genotype
* a person’s genes

Phenotype
* a person’s characteristics
* controlled by genes and environment

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Psychodynamic

Role of the Unconscious

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Conscious
* current processing

Preconscious
* could become conscious

Unconcious
* everything outside of conscious awareness

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Psychodynamic

Personality

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Id
* pleasure principle
* innate

Super ego
* morality principle
* comes from socialisation

Ego
* reality principle
* balances id and super ego

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Psychodynamic

Defence Mechanisms

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Repression
* forcing distressing thought into unconscious

Denial
* refusing to acknowledge some aspect of reality

Displacement
* transfering feelings to a substitute target

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