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What are the 2 explanations of institutional aggression?

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The importation model

The deprivation model

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What are the 2 social psychological explanations of aggression?

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Social learning theory

Deindividuation

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What are the 4 neural explanations of aggression? (2 brain region and 2 neurotransmitters)

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Amygdala
Prefrontal cortex

Serotonin
Dopamine

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What are the 2 hormonal explanations of aggression?

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Testosterone

Cortisol

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What are the 2 genetic explanations of aggression? (The people they research)

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Twins

Adoptees

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What are the 2/3 evolutionary explanations of aggression?

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Infidelity
Jealousy
(Cuckoldry)

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What are the 2 evolutionary explanations of group display in humans?

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Xenophobia

The power-threat hypothesis

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What are the 2 factors influencing attitudes to food an eating behaviour?

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The developmental approach (the role of learning on food preference)
Mood

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What are the 2 factors involved with successful dieting and the 2 factors involved with failure of dieting?

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Success- social support & life milestones

Failure- (restraint theory) and the boundary model

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What are the 4 neural mechanisms involved in eating behaviour? (2 brain region and 2 hormones)

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The lateral hypothalamus (LH)
The ventro-medial hypothalamus (VMH)

Leptin
Ghrelin

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What are the 3 evolutionary explanations of food preference?

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Preference for sweet foods
Preference or salty foods
Avoidance of bitter foods

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What is the evolutionary explanation of obesity?

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The thrifty gene hypothesis

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What are the 3 neural explanations of obesity? (1 brain region, 1 neurotransmitter, 1 hormone)

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Ventro-medial hypothamalus
Leptin
Dopamine

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What are the 2 psychological explanations of obesity?

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Behaviourist

Psychodynamic (only used if asked for more than 1)

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What are the 2 theories for the formation of romantic relationships?

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The matching hypothesis

The reward/need satisfaction model

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What are the 2 theories for the maintenance of romantic relationships?

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Equity theory

The investment model

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What are the 2 theories for the breakdown of romantic relationships?

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Rollie and Ducks model of relationship breakdown

Equity theory

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The relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour? (2 sexual selection and 2 differences in reproductive behaviour)

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Males selection -youth/ physical attractiveness
Females selection -ability to provide resources/ambition

Diff 1 -casual sex?
Diff 2 -jealousy?

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What are the evolutionary explanations of parental investment?

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Maternal investment

Paternal investment

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What are the 4 influences of childhood on adult relationships?

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Bowlby’s internal working model
Attachment theory
Early childhood and peer interactions
Adolescence and peer interactions

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What are 3 effects of collectivist/individualistic cultures that have an effect on romantic relationships?

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1-influences over voluntary and involuntary relationships
2-culture affects attitudes to love
3-cultural affects attitudes to divorce

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