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What’s empirical evidence?

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Evidence collected through observation (experimentation).

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What’s replication?

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Repeating an experiment to make sure results are reliable (the same).

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What’s pseudoscience?

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A fake science or a set of beliefs that do not originate from the scientific method/objective information.

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What’s the definition of psychology?

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The<b> scientific</b> study of the behaviour & mental processes of humans & animals. <b>Conclusions about general behaviour patterns are made.</b>

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How many types of Psychologists are there and what’s the acronym used? 

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9 types. Some frogs collect colorful owls, especially new hatchlings cheerfully.

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What are the different types of psychologists?

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Sports<div>Forensics</div><div>Community</div><div>Counsellor</div><div>Organisational</div><div>Educational</div><div><b>NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST</b></div><div>Health</div><div><b>CLINICAL</b></div>

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What’s the education course for psychologists?

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A degree in psychology & then a post-graduate of 2 years or 2 years of full-time practice under a qualified pyschologist.

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What’s the education course of a psychiatrist?

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A medical degree & then a postgraduate in psychiatry.

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How do psychologists treat patients?

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Without prescribing drugs & through talk therapy.

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In what areas do psychologists work?

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A wide range.

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How are psychiatrists allowed to treat mental health problems?

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They’re allowed to perform medical procedures & prescribe drugs to treat the symptoms.

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What area of work does psychiatry focus on?

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They focus on the prevention, diagnosis & treatment of mental health problems.

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What is the acronym used to remember the ethical principles?

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When da hotdogs do it very cool.

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What are the 7 ethical principles?

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<div>Withdrawal rights</div>

<div>Deception</div>

<div>Harm (psychological)</div>

<div>Debriefing</div>

<div>Informed consent</div>

<div>Voluntary participation</div>

<div><b>Confidientiality.</b></div>

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What’s an aim?

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It’s a broad statement about the goal of the research.

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How do you write an aim?

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To investigate the effects of IV on DV.

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What are the steps to the scientific method?

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Identify the problem.
Formulate the hypothesis.
Design the research method.
Collect the data.
Analyse & interpret the data.
Report the results.

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What else is the IV called and what’s done to it.

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The cause variable. It’s manipulated to assess its effect on the DV.

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What else is the DV called and what’s done it.

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The effect variable. It’s measured to assess the effects of the IV.

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What’s an extraneous variable?

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A variable that’s not the IV/DV that may or can cause a change to the DV.

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What does a confounding variable do?

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Affectes the results & the experiment’s validity.

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What do extraneous variables affect?

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Either one of the DV or the IV.

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What do confounding variables affect?

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Both the DV and IV.

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What’s the hypothesis?

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Your prediction of what will happen in the experiment.

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What will the hypothesis contain?
Both variants of the IV (will not drink & those who drink), the DV, the prediction & the population.
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What is the population?
The larger group from which a sample is drawn.
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What's the sample?
The subset or portion of a larger population the sample is taken from.
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What's random sampling?
Randomly selecting participants from the larger population.
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What's stratified sampling?
Organising the population into smaller subgroups & then choosing participants from those subgroups in proportion to the population.
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What's random allocation?
Randomly allocating participants to either the control group or experimental group.
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What is the BETWEEN SUBJECTS design?
When participants are randomly allocated to either control or experimental group.
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What's the WITHIN SUBJECTS design and what are the groups called?
When the participants participate in both the control & experimental CONDITIONS.
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What's a conclusion?
The end statement of an experiment.
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What do you say in the conclusion?
Whether the hypothesis was SUPPORTED or REJECTED, while referring to the results & making a statement about the hypothesis.
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What's the definition of behaviour?
An action that can be observed or measured by a human.
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What's the definition of mental processes?
An individual's personal thoughts & feelings that can't be directly observed.
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Define neuropsychology.
The study of the biological basis of behaviour & how brian dysfunction affects behaviour.
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Define clinical psychology.
The prevention, diagnosis & treatment of a wide range of mental health & general health problems affecting adults & children.
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Define community psychology & give an example of what they do.
Developing programs to improve the wellbeing of the community, like programs to improve homelessness.
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Define counselling psychology.
Concerned with assisting personal relationships.
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What's educational/developmental psychology?
Concerned with the study of factors that affect the learning process from childhood to adulthood.
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What's forensic psychology?
Concerned with applying the psychological principles to the legal system.
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What's health psychology?
Concerned with the prevention & treatment of physical illness.
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What's organisational psychology?
The study of factors that influence productivity in businesses, governments and industries.
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What's sport psychology?
Concerned with physical performance & the facts that influence this performance.
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What's the experimental group?
The group exposed to the experimental condition or the IV.
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What are the ethical concepts?
Justice
Non-maleficence
Beneficence
Integrity
Respect
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Explain non-maleficence
Not seeking to do harm.
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Explain beneficence.
Seeking to do more good than harm.
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Explain justice.
Maintaining ethical code & done fairly.
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Explain integrity.
Keeping honest & not saying lies.
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Explain respect.
Considering everyone & everyone to be of value.
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Explain voluntary participation.
An individual isn't forced or pressured to participate in an experiment.
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Explain informed consent.
Informed: Participants are given information about the experiment & their rights.
Consent: Written consent form participants or guardians.
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Explain withdrawal rights.
A participant being able to discontinue their involvement at anytime in the experiment without consequences.
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Explain confidentiality.
The privacy, protection & security of a participants's personal information.
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Explain deception.
To not explain the full truth to participants when it jeopardises the validity of the experiment. Must correct harmful effects & committee must approve it.
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Explain debriefing.
At the end of the experiment the participants understand the aim, results & conclusion. 

Essential when deception is used. Questions are addressed. Support is provided so no lasting harm.
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What are the types of memory stores?
Sensory, short-term & long-term.
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Define sensory memory.
The entry point of memory where exact replicas of information is stored for a very brief period.
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What's the duration of short term memory?
0.2-4 seconds
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What's the capacity of sensory memory?
unlimited.
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Define short-term memory.
The 2nd most active memory store that stores sensory information paid attention to. 
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What's the duration of short-term memory?
18-30 seconds.
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What's the capacity of short-term memory?
7 (-+2) items
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What's the capacity of long-term memory?
unlimited
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What's the duration of long-term memory?
Unlimited.
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What can long-term memory be divided into?
Explicit & Implicit memory.
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What's explicit memory?
Memory with awareness.
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What's implicit memory?
Memory without awareness.
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What's semantic memory?
Facts & knowledge.
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What's episodic memory?
Personal experiences & events.
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What's eplicit memory divided into?
Semantic & episodic memory.
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What's implicit memory divided into?
Procedural & Classically conditioned memory.
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What's procedural memory?
Motor skills & actions.
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What's classically conditioned memory?
Conditioned responses to conditioned stimuli.
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How is STM usually lost?
Through decay & displacement.
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What's decay?
Losing info due to not being used.
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What's displacement?
Being pushed out by new information.
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How can STM capacity be increased?
By chunking information.
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Define memory.
An active information-processing system that receives, stores, organises & recovers information.
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What's encoding?
Converting information into a usable code that can be stored & represented in the memory system.
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What's storage?
The retention of information in the memory system over time.
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What's retrieval?
Locating info stored in memory & bringing it into consciousness when needed.
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How is information from STM encoded for LTM?
Through maintence & elaborative rehearsal.
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What's selective attention?
Conciously attending to a specific stimulus & ignoring others.
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What's divided attention?
Focusing on 2 or more activites at a time.
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What are automatic processes?
Tasks that require low levels of awareness, attention & mental effort.
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What are controlled processes?
Tasks that involve high awareness, attention & mental effort.
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Define iconic memory.
An exact replica of visual information.
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Define echoic memory.
An exact replica of auditory information.
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How long is iconic memory?
0.2-0.4 seconds.
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What's the capacity of iconic memory?
Relativelh unlimited.
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What's the duration of ehoic memory?
3-4 seconds.
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What's the duration of echoic memory?
Relatively unlimited.
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How can you increase the duration of STM?
Through maintenance & elaborative rehearsal.
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What's maintenace rehearsal?
Simple rote repetition of information to help retain it in short term memory.
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What's elaborative rehearsal?
Adding meaning to informatin or linking it information already stored in LTM.
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What are context-dependent cues?
Environmental cues in the environment where the memory was formed, which enhance the retrieval of memories formed in that context when replicated.
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What are state-dependent cues?
Retrieval cues associated with your internal physiologica/psychological state at the time the memory was formed which enhance the retrieval of memories formed in that state.
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What are mnemonic devices?
A system or technique aiding memory retention.
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What are the 4 mnemonic devices?
Narative chainging, acronym, acrostic & the method of loci.
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What's narrative chaining?
Linking unrelated items to create a story-like sequence of events.
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What's acronym?
Constructing a pronounceable word using the 1st letter of each word of the information to be recalled.
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What's acrostics?
Contructing a phrase/sentence from words that begin with the ifrst letter of the information to be recalled.
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What's method of loci?
Visualising items to be recalled in a well-known series of locations, then taking a mental/physical journey through those locations to recall the info.
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What's operant conditionning?
A type of learning involving association, learning through the association between a stimulus, a behaviour perfomed & the resulting consequence.

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