Psychology Paper 2 Flashcards

1
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Sensory neurons

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Short axon, long dendrites

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2
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Relay neuron

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Short axon, short dendrites

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3
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Motor neuron

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Long axon, long dendrites

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4
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Strength of localisation of function

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Peterson used fmri to show wernickes was active duirng listening and brocas was during reading

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5
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Limitation of localisation of function

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Case study research

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6
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Research support for functional recovery

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Maguire et al

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7
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Practical applications of functional recovery

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Helping brain damaged patients

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8
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Limitation of plasticity

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Phantom limb sydrome is shite

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9
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Axonal sprouting

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Growth of new nerve endings

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10
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Recruitment of homologous areas

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Opposite side of brain is recruited

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11
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Neuronal unmasking

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Dormant neurons are turned on

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12
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Effect of gender on functional recovery

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Women are less localised and lateralised thn men so are better

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13
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Limitation of circadian rythms

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Small sample sizes b of sifre

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14
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Strength of exo zeit prac app

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Jet lag treatment sort econoy out

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15
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Reearch suppot of exo zeit

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Light on back of knee study

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16
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Research support of endo pace

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Siffre

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17
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EEG

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Reaction to stimulus with general response of brain

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18
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ERP

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Isolation of specific responses in EEG data

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19
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Imitation of post mortem

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Cannot prove causation

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20
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What are used for internal mental processes

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Inferences

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21
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What are the interal mental proceses

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Language, attention, thought, memory, perception

22
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Evidence for cognitive approach

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Kohlberg’s theory of gender development

23
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Evidence of biologicla

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Concordance rates for OCD MZ is 68%, DZ is 31%

24
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Order of psychosexual stages

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Oral, anal, phallic, latent or genital

25
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Oral conflicts

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Receptive = smoking
Aggressive = sarcasm

26
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Anal conficts

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Retentive = neat etc
Expulsive = messy

27
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Phallic conflicts

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Oedipus and electra
Gay

28
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Latent conflict

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Repress all of the other conflicts, forget childhood

29
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Genital conflict

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Annot form heteroseual relatioships

30
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Defense mechanism

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Repression, denial, displacement

31
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Repression

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Stops impulses, locked away

32
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Denial

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Avoiding reality

33
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Displacement

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Catharsis, redirection

34
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Should humanistic be scientific

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No

35
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, self actualisation

36
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What is love and belonging

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Family

37
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Issues and debates of client centred therapy

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Idiogrphic

38
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What is the purpose of client centred therapy

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Clients sort themselves out

39
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Conditions of worth

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Unconditional positive regard vs conditional positive regard

40
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Psychological reports

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Abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, references

41
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Abstract

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Aims, hypothesis
Conclusion and results
Participants, design and method

42
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Introduction

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Aims - what we’re investigating
Hypothesis - prediction of outcome
Theoretical background

43
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Method

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Design, participants, apparatus, standardised procedure
Everything the researcher did

44
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Results

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Presentation of data - graphs and charts
Descriptive stats - measures of central tendency, meaures of dispersion
Inferentil stats - significance

45
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Discussion

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Limitations and modifications
Conclusions and explanation of findings
Relation to prior research
Implications and suggestions for future research

46
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Referencing

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Credit previous research
Last name, initial, year, title, location, publisher

47
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Type 1 error

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Significance level is strict

48
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Type 2 error

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Significance level is too lenient

49
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Peer review

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Published, validity, appropriateness, significance, originality

50
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Investigator effects

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Consciously or unconciously behaves in a way which supports their prediction
Interpreting behaviour as they want to rather than the truth