Danny Exam Flashcards
5 pillars of psychology
- biological
- cognitive
- developmental
- social + personality
- mental health
talk therapy inventor
Sigmund Freud
free association inventor
Sigmund Freud
founder of behaviourism
John B Watson
- little Albert experiment
- consciousness is irrelevant!
Gestalt psychology
- creators
- what is it
- Max Wertheimer + Kohler + Kafka
- theory of perception
stages in research
- development + operationalisation
- instrumentation
- data collection
- data analysis
- communication of results
sample
representative group of a population
random sampling
everyone in population has equal probability of being chosen
cluster sampling
choose specific no. of prisons around the world and take participants from them (geographical cluster)
systematic sampling
every 3rd person
stratified random sampling
divide population into homogeneous group then select from them
probability sampling 4 ways
- random sampling
- systematic sample
- stratified
- cluster
face validity
does the test appear to test what it aims for?
construct validity
does it test theoretical constructs?
concurrent validity
does test relate to existing measure?
predictive validity
does test predict later performance?
external validity
how applicable is test to real world
internal validity
how well was test conducted
ecological value
how generalisable results are to real life
mental illness
condition that has negative effect on a way individual
1. thinks
2. feels
3. behaves
2 different trauma/stress related disorders
- acute stress disorder
- PTSD
acute stress disorder when does it begin
right after traumatic event to (3 days - 1 month)
symptoms of acute stress disorder
+ How many do we need to diagnose
9 symptoms
irritability, anxiety, increased arousal, emotional numbness, panic attacks, insomnia, depression
PTSD when does it begin
- 1 month after or within 6 month of trauma
common causes of PTSD
- war
- sexual assault
- disasters (natural + man-made)
4 symptoms of PTSD
- intrusion
- avoidance
- cognitive + mood changes
- arousal changes
schizophrenia common symptoms
- psychotic symptoms (negative)
- cognitive dysfunctions
psychotic symptoms examples
- delusions
- hallucinations
- disorganised speech
- weird behaviour (catatonia)