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Perspectives & Approaches Flashcards

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What are some assumptions/concepts of cognitive psychology?

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  • Internal mental processing
  • Preference for experimental method
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What are the cognitive studies?

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  • Grant (matching/mismatching)
  • Loftus & Palmer (critical verbs)
  • Moray (dichotic listening)
  • Simons & Chabris (gorilla)
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What are some assumptions/concepts of the behaviourist perspective?

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  • Classical conditioning (association)
  • Operant conditioning (consequences)
  • Social Learning Theory
  • Behaviour is learnt
  • Psychology is a science
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What are the behaviourist studies?

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  • Chaney (Funhaler)
  • Bandura (Bobo dolls)
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What are some concepts/assumptions of the psychodynamic perspective?

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  • Childhood experience
  • Oedipus complex
  • Tripartite of personality
  • Subconscious/conscious
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What are the psychodynamic studies?

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  • Freud (Little Hans)
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What are some concepts/assumptions of social psychology?

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  • Behaviour is down to other people
  • Situational factors
  • Conformity/obedience
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What are the social studies?

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  • Milgram (legitimate authority figures)
  • Bocchiaro (whistle-blowers)
  • Piliavin (helping behaviours)
  • Levine (cross-cultural)
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What are some concepts/assumptions of the biological approach?

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  • Genetics (inherit), brain dysfunction
  • What is psychological is physiological at first
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What are the biological studies?

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  • Sperry (hemispheric deconnection)
  • Casey (hot/cold cues)
  • Blakemore & Cooper (cats - visual cortex)
  • Maguire (navigation-related changes in the hippocampi)
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What are some concepts/assumptions of the individual differences approach?

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  • Idiographic
  • Dispositional factors
  • All behaviour is unique
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What are the individual differences studies?

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  • Baron-Cohen (autism)
  • Freud (Little Hans)
  • Gould (peer review)
  • Hancock (psychopathy)
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What are some concepts/assumptions of the developmental approach?

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  • Behaviour development (birth to death), ongoing process
  • All behaviour happens in predetermined stages
  • Behaviour may be learnt and developed individually
  • Development driven by nature and biological maturation process
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What are the developmental studies?

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  • Bandura (transmission of aggression)
  • Chaney (Funhaler study)
  • Kohlberg (stages of moral development)
  • Lee (evaluations of lying and truth-telling)
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What are some cognitive applications?

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  • Medical field
  • Justice system/crime
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
  • Artificial intelligence
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What are some biological applications?

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  • Medical field (genetic research)
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What are some social applications?

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  • Justice system/crime
  • Restorative justice
    -Education
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What are some behaviourist applications?

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  • Education
  • Justice system/crime
  • Token economies
  • Systematic desensitization
  • Flooding therapy
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What are some individual differences applications?

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  • Justice system
  • Physical therapy
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What are some psychodynamic applications?

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  • Psychoanalysis
  • Childhood trauma
  • Sleep/dreaming
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What are some developmental applications?

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  • School/education
  • Day care
  • Medical field

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