How has psychology developed over time? Flashcards
What were the order of studies in social?
- Authoritarian personality
- Realistic conflict theory
- Agency theory
- Social identity theory
- Social impact theory
What is authoritarian personality?
- It is where there was conditional love and harsh parenting for the parents which leads to cold, destructive and superior behaviour from the child
- This was often seen in WW2 which triggered psychologists to look at the soldiers and why they obeyed
- It is proposed by Adorno and is measured by the F-scale
What is realistic conflict theory?
- It is the competition over limited resources
- It talks about outgrip hostility, negative interdependence, superordinate goals
- It provides a solution to reduce prejudice
- Shows that prejudice can also be situational and not only about personality
What is Agency theory?
- The agent state is where we are acting under someones command and therefore we are more obedient because there is no responsibility
- The agentic shift is where you are switching from an autonomous state to an agentic state
- The autonomous state is where you are acting on your own free will and therefore have full responsibility for you actions
- Moral strain Is where you act against your own beliefs which leads to some anxiety over it
- binding factors and what leads you to complete destructive obedience even if they are against your morals
Why is agency theory better than authoritarian personality?
Because it shows the moral side of it and shows the situational factors of obedience as well
What is social identity theory?
- This is where there are in-groups and outgroups but no competition
- It describes how we become part of our in-group through the processes of social categorisation, identification and classification
Why is it better than realistic conflict theory?
- It is better because it shows how prejudice is not always due to competition
- It also tells us the role of self-esteem from in-groups that we belong to and how this can lead to prejudice
What is social impact theory?
- This refers to the effect of strength, immediacy and number of obedience
- Also explains the law of diminishing return, the divisional effect and the multiplicative effect and the impact this has on the obedience of targets
Why is this better than Agency theory?
It is better than Agency theory because it is quantitative research and therefore easier to measure and analyse
What are the different theories in cognitive psychology?
- Reconstructive memory
- The MSM
- Tulving’s model of long term memory
- The WMM
- episodic buffer added
What is reconstructive memory?
- It states that memories are only reconstructions and not reproductions
- We store pieces of information and piece them together when trying to recall a memory and then we fill in any gaps with past experiences
- Involves schema theory
- The war of the ghosts story helped to suggest this
What is the MSM?
- The MSM includes the SM, the STM and the LTM
- It includes the encoding, duration and capacity of the 3 sections and how information is moved throughout the model
- It is better that reconstructive memory because you can reliably test the different stores
What is the long term memory model?
- This explains the LTM and the differences and role that the semantic memory and the episodic memory have
- The procedural memory starts implicit and then does explicit
- It is better than the MSM because the LTM is no longer a unitary store and it shows that the LTM does actually have more than one store that process information differently
What is the WMM?
- This includes the central executive, the phonological loop, the Visio - spatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer
- It is better than the MSM because the STM is no longer a unitary store and it shows that the STM does actually have more than one store that process information differently
When was the episodic buffer added?
- The episodic buffer was added in 2000
- This better explains how the information from the STM is integrated with the information from the LTM
- It chunks things better on STM better
What are the different stores in Biological?
- Freud
- Limbic system
- Neurotransmitters
- Amygdala
- Hormones
- OFC (orbital frontal cortex)
+ Evolution at the beginning
What is Freud?
- Freud explains the psychodynamic theory
- It explains the ID, ego and superego and looks at the pleasure, reality and morality principle
- It also explains and looks at the benefits of catharsis
- It acknowledges that children develop over time
What is the limbic system?
- This includes the amygdala (but this wasn’t included till after), the hippocampus and the hypothalamus
Why is it better than Freud?
- It is better than Freud because it can be directly tested and we can collect quantitative data on it through the use of post mortals and animal studies
- It objectively measures structural differences
What are neurotransmitters?
- There is dopamine which is inhibitory
- There is serotonin which is excitatory
- The mode of action is the way that it effects and its impact on synapses