Paper 2 Flashcards
What did allport do
Combined both psychodynamic and Behavioural approaches to explain personality
Types of vicarious models
Live
Verbal
Symbolic
Name for attention retention motor reproduction and motivation
Mediational processes
What caused increase in aggressive behaviour for bobo doll
Vicarious reinforcement, models were given positive reinforcement like praise
What percent of abused kids become abusive
30%
% schizophrenia:
Adopted kids with schizo parents and disturbed house?
And adopted kid with genes but no disturbed house?
40%
6%
Who studied OCD concordance rate and what were results?
Billet
MZ twins 68% OCD concordance, DZ 31%
Who had personality change due to pole going through eye and brain, where in brain
Phineas Gage, frontal lobe
General name for areas of fascination in each psychosexual stage
Enrogenous zone
Positives of psychodynamic(4)
+linked to bio needs, innate evolution
+provide methods of therapy, psychoanalysis
+look at early life experience
+first psychological approach, before though abnormalities due to spirits
Negatives of psychodynamic (6)
- subjective, dream analysis and case studies
- lack falsifiability
- emphasise too much on past, should focus on present to cure
- no cause or effect
- sexist
- psychoanalysis expensive and time
Positives of bio approach
+testable, scientific
+treatment drugs
+observable fMRI, post mortem
Negatives of bio approach
- no nurture
- excuse cognitive behaviour since deterministic
- biological reductionism
What do inhibitory neurone do (charge) , examples (2)
Make axon more negative, calming
Seretonin not enough = depression and anxiety
GABA, not enough = anxiety, not calm
What do excitatory neurotransmitter do to charge, examples
Makes axon more positive, noradrenaline
Acetylcholine: too much depress, too little dementia
What type of neurotransmitters is dopamine, what does it do
Both inhibitory and excitatory, depends on receptor it binds to. Pleasure coordination and reward, low causes Parkinson, excess causes schizophrenia positive symptoms
What does thyroid gland do
Thyroxin for appetite, growth and metabolism. Disorder is Graves’ disease: weight loss
What does adrenal gland make
Cortisol and adrenaline
What hormones from ovaries
Progesterone and oestrogen
Where is melatonin made
Penal gland
What hormone from pancreas, job?
Insulin, blood sugar level
Job of cerebral cortex
Higher level processes such as consciousness, emotion, language and memory
Components of the limbic system
Thamalus, hippocampus, hypothalamus and amygdala
Function of hippocampus
Learning and memory, taxi enlarged posterior hippocampus
Components of hindbrain (brain stem), functions
Pons- REM brain activity in sleep
Cerebellum - coordinate, balance, procedural memory
Medulla oblongata - autonomic
Example of lesion studies
Phineas gage and HM
What happened to HM
He had some of hippocampus removed too stop severe epilepsy, couldn’t form LTM
Location of basal ganglia, function, abnormalities it causes
Base of forebrain, motor skill, motivation, learn by association, OCD addiction
How many pps in split brain study who did it
10 men 1 woman, Sperry