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Psychology
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Social Influence
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Psychology
(85 decks)
Key Terms
The Emerence Of Psychology As A Science
The Behaviourist approaches
The Cognitive approach
The Biological Approach
The Psychodynamic Approach
The Humansitic Approach
The nervous system
Neurons and Synaptic Transmission
The Endocrine System
The ‘fight or flight’ Response
Localisation of function in the brain
Hemispheric lateralisation
Split-brain research
Brain plasticity
Functional recovery
ways of studying the brain
biological rhythms
the effect of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers on the sleep/wake cycle
Caregiver-infant Interactions In Humans
Stages of Attachment
the role of the father
Animal studies of attachment
Explanations of attachment: Learning theory
Explanations of attachments: Bowlby's monotropic theory
Ainsworth's strange situation + Typers of attachment
Cultural Variations In Attachment: Van Ijzendoorn
Bowlby’s Theory of Maternal Deprivation
Roman orphan studies: effects of institutionalisation
Influence of early attachment on later relationships
Definitions of abnormality
OCD
Biological explanations of OCD
The biological approach to treating OCD
Phobias
The behavioural approach to explaining phobias
The behavioural approach to treating phobias
Depression
The cognitive approach to explaining depression
The cognitive approach to treating depression
The experimental method
Operationalisation
types of experiment
Correlation analysis
Observations
Self-report methods
case studies
aims and hypotheses
experimental design
controlling extraneous variables
Pilot studies
reliability
validity
ethics
selection of participants
the relationship between researchers and participants
types of data
primary and secondary data
descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency
descriptive statistics: measures of dispersion
presentation of quantitative data
characteristics of normal and skewed distributions
levels of measurement
inferential statistics
introduction to statistical testing: The Sign test
levels of significance and type 1/2 errors
analysing qualitative data
Reporting psychological investigations
how to reference
the role of peer review in the scientific process
the implications of psychological research for the economy
features of science
types of conformity
Asch's (1951) research into conformity
Variables affecting conformity
Explanations for conformity
Conformity to social roles as investigated by Zimbardo
Milgram's research into obedience
Explanations of obedience- situational variables
Explanations of obedience- agentic state and legitimacy of authority
Explanations of obedience- dispositional explanation
Explanations of resistance to social influence- social support
Explanations of resistance to social influence- locus of control
Minority influence
The role of social influence processes in social change
