Week 2 and Revision Flashcards
Social psychologists have documented one of the most important contributions to well being, which is…
The powerful connection between personal happiness and relationships with others
The FBI makes a claim of a success rate of ____ in their profiling of offenders.
40%
What are the 3 assumptions or beliefs shattered by trauma and loss?
- Personal invulnerability
- Meaningfulness
- Positive view of self
According to the biopsychosocial approach to risk-taking, sensation seeking is what sort of factor?
A psychological factor
Implying that mental health is simply the absence of mental illness is the…
disease model
What id an example of a social releaser in a baby (elicits caring behaviour from the mother)
A baby’s smile
Substance abuse problems are commonly associated with…
criminal behaviour
The 4 stages of criminal profiling according to the FBI are…
- Data assimilation
- Crime classification
- Crime reconstruction
- Profile generation
people are not good at anticipating the impact of life events.
They overestimate the impact of positive events.
They exaggerate the duration of emotional reactions to events.
This is called…
Affective forecasting
A perpetrator will commit similar crimes to their previous crimes. This is called the ________ assumption?
Consistency assumption
Opiate disorders can be treated by…
Counselling or CBT
In mindfulness exercises, we aim to respond, not…
react
The central aim of mindfulness is NOT to simply achieve
relaxation
What 2 aspects of the inductive section form a theory in the hyothetico-deductive method?
Observation and intuition
In the deductive section of the hypothetico deductive model, hypothesis is formed from…
theory
What is the flow of the hypothetico deductive model?
observations and intuition - theory - hypothesis - empirical tests - results
When evidence challenges the hypothesis, what do we do?
reject the hypothesis and abandon or amend the theory
If the evidence supports the hypothesis…
The theory is therefore supported
A specific statement about the relationship between 2 variables is called a…
hypothesis
The variable that the researcher manipulates is the…
Independent variable (IV)
The data, produced in response to the IV/s is the…
Dependent variable
Reasoning from the specific to the general is…
Induction or inductive reasonsing
An approach to hypothesis testing where a researcher attempts to gather evidence that invalidates a theory or hypothesis is…
Falsifiability
The model which combines induction and deduction is the…
hypothetico-deductive model
Absolute truths or universal statements like newton’s law of motion are known as…
laws
What is the difference between a theory and a hypothesis?
Theory is a general statement about the relation between 2 or more variables.
Hypothesis is a specific statement about the relation between 2 or more variables.
