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ORIGINS OF PSYCHOLOGY
What was the original name for ps...,
What does the concept of cartesia...,
Who s concept is cartesian dualism
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APPROACHES: The Behaviourist Approach
What is the behaviourist approach,
What does the behaviourist approa...,
What did pavlov research in 1927
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APPROACHES: The social learning theory
What is the social learning theory,
Who proposed the slt,
What is modelling
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APPROACHES: The Cognitive Approach
What is the cognitive approach,
What are internal mental processes,
What is a schema
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APPROACHES: The Biological Approach
What is the biological approach,
What are the assumptions of the b...,
What are genes
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Biopsychology: nervous and endocrine system
What is biopsychology,
What is the nervous system,
What are the 2 sub systems the hu...
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Biopsychology: neurons and synaptic transmission
What is a neuron,
What are the three types of neurons,
What is the role of sensory neurons
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APPROACHES: The Psychodynamic approach
What is the psychodynamic approach,
What is the unconscious,
What is the preconscious mind
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APPROACHES: Humanistic psychology
Origins of humanistic approach,
What is humanistic psychology,
What is free will
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COMPARISON OF APPROACHES
What are the approaches views on ...,
Nature vs nurture,
What are the approaches view on n...
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RESEARCH METHODS: Experimental Methods
What are research methods,
What is the experimental method,
What are aims
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RESEARCH METHODS: RESEARCH ISSUES
What is an experiment,
Extraneous variable,
What are the types of extraneous ...
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RESEARCH METHODS: experimental design
What are the two conditions in an...,
What is an experimental condition,
What is a control condition
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RESEARCH METHODS: types of experiments
What are laboratory experiments,
Evaluate laboratory experiments,
What are field experiments
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RESEARCH METHODS: sampling
What is a population,
What is a sample,
What is random sampling and how i...
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RESEARCH METHODS: Ethical issues and ways of dealing with them
What is the definition of ethics,
What are ethical issues,
What is the bps
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RESEARCH METHODS: PILOT STUDUES
What is a pilot study,
What are some elements of the pro...,
How does pilot study help to trai...
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RESEARCH METHODS: Types of observation
What is an observation,
What is naturalistic observation,
What are controlled observations
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RESEARCH METHODS: Observational design
What is unstructured observation,
What are the issues of unstructur...,
What is structured observation
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RESEARCH METHODS: Self report techniques
What are self report techniques,
What are questionnaires,
What are the two types of questio...
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RESEARCH METHODS: self report design
What are rating scales,
What are likert scales,
What is a fixed choice option
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RESEARCH METHODS: correlation
W,
What are co variables,
What are the 3 types of correlation
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RESEARCH METHODS: types of data
What is qualitative data,
What is quantitative data,
Evaluate qualitative data
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RESEARCH METHODS: measures of central tendency and dispersion
What are measures of central tend...,
What is the mean and how is it ca...,
What is the median and how is it ...
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RESEARCH METHODS: The Sign Test
What is statistical testing,
What is the sign test,
What is required to use the sign ...
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RESEARCH METHODS: peer review and psychological research and the economy
What is peer review,
What is the role of peer review,
What are the main aims of peer re...
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE : conformity
Define social infleunce,
Define conformity,
What did kelman propose in 1958
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE- Asch's research
Explain asch s baseline procedure,
What was the effect of group size...,
What is the effect of unanimity
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE - conformity to social roles + Zimbardo's research
What are social roles,
What did,
Zimbardo et al 1973 the stanford ...
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE - obedience
What is obedience,
What did milgram want to find,
Baseline procedure of milgram s r...
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE: obedience- situational variables
What are situational variables,
What is the alternative of situat...,
What are the different types of s...
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE - obedience - situational explanations
What is the agentic state,
What is an agent,
What feelings do agents feel when...
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE: obedience - dispositional explanation
What is dispositional explanation,
What is the authoritarian persona...,
What causes shapes the authoritar...
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE- resistance to social influence
What is resistance to social infl...,
What is social support,
How does social support help to r...
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE - minority influence
What is minority influence,
Who studied minority influence,
What is consistency
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE - social influence and social change
What is social change,
What are the six lessons from min...,
How does drawing attention and ke...
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ATTACHMENT- caregiver-infant interactions
What is attachment,
What are caregiver infant interac...,
What are alert phases
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ATTACHMENT - Schaffer's stages of attachement
What are stages of attachment,
What is stage 1,
What is stage 2
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ATTACHMENT- the role of the father
Who is the father,
What did schaffer and emerson 196...,
How important are fathers in chil...
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ATTACHMENT - animal studies of attachment
Outline the procedure lorenz s re...,
Outline the findings of lorenz s ...,
What is imprinting
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ATTACHMENT - explanations of attachment: learning theory
What is learning theory,
Who proposed that caregiver infan...,
What did dollard and miller propo...
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ATTACHMENT - explanations of attachment Bowlby's theory
Briefly explain bowlby s theory,
What does mono tropic mean,
Why is bowlby s theory described ...
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ATTACHMENT - types of attachment
Outline the aims of ainsworths st...,
Outline the procedure of ainswort...,
What was assessed in the strange ...
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ATTACHMENT - cultural variations in attachment
What are cultural variations,
What did ijzendoorn and kroonenbe...,
What was the procedure of age the...
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ATTACHMENT - Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation
What is maternal deprivation,
What did bowlby propose,
What is deprivation
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ATTACHMENT - Romanian orphan studies: Institutionalisation
What are orphan studies,
What is institutionalisation,
What is an institution
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ATTACHEMENT - Influence of early attachment on later relationships
What is the internal working model,
Why is the quality of a babies fi...,
A good first relationship will le...
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - definitions of abnormality (1)
What is statistical infrequency,
What is deviation from social norms,
Z
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - types of abnormality (2)
What is failure to function to ad...,
What did rosenhan and seligman 19...,
What are the 6 features of person...
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - phobias
What is a phobia,
What are the dsm 5 categories of ...,
What are the behavioural characte...
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - depression
What is depression,
What are dsm 5 categories of depr...,
What are the behavioural characte...
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
What is ocd,
What is compulsion,
What are the dsm 5 categories of ocd
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - the behavioural approach to explaining phobias
Who made the two process model,
What is the two process model,
Explain acquisition by classical ...
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - the behavioural approach to treating phobias
What is systematic desensitisation,
What is flooding,
Strengths of sd
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - the cognitive approach to explaining depression
What is becks cognitive theory,
What is in beck s negative triad,
What is elis s cognitive theory
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - the cognitive approach to treating depression
What is cbt,
Outline becks cognitive therapy,
Outline ellis s rational emotiona...
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - the biological approach to explaining OCD
What are genetic explanations,
What does the diathesis stress mo...,
What are candidate genes
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - the biological approach to treating OCD
What is drug therapy,
What is the standard medical trea...,
Where do ssri s work
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MEMORY - coding, capacity and duration of memory
What is memory,
What is stm,
What is ltm
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MEMORY - research on coding - Baddeley 1966a 1966b
Outline baddeleys research on coding,
What are the findings,
Evaluate this study
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MEMORY - research on capacity - Jacobs (1987) + Miller (1956)
Outline jacobs research on capacity,
What are the findings of jacobs s...,
Evaluate jacobs study
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MEMORY - research on duration - Peterson and Peterson + Bahrick
Outline peterson and petersons re...,
Outlie bahrick 1975 study on dura...,
Findings of bahrick
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MEMORY - the multi store model of memory
What did atkinson shiffrin say,
What does the sensory store consi...,
What 2 memories are the sensory s...
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MEMORY - types of long term memory
Who proposed the different types ...,
What is episodic memory,
What is semantic memory
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MEMORY - the working memory model
What is t,
What is the central executive,
What is the phonological loop
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MEMORY - explanations for forgetting : interference
What is interference,
What are the two types of interfe...,
What is proactive interference
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MEMORY - explanations for forgetting : retrieval failure
What is a cue,
What is retrieval failure,
What is the encoding specificity ...
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MEMORY - factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: Misleading information
What is misleading information,
What are some examples of mislead...,
What is eyewitness testimony ewt
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MEMORY - factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: anxiety
What is anxiety,
Who looked at the presence of a w...,
Outline the procedure of johnson ...
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MEMORY - improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: Cognitive interview
What is the cognitive interview,
What are the 4 stages of cognitiv...,
What is the enhanced cognitive in...
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BIOPSYCHOLOGY - localisation of function in the brain
What is localisation of function,
What is the holistic theory,
What is the motor area
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BIOPSYCHOLOGY - hemispheric lateralisation and split brain research
What is hemispheric lateralisation,
What does the left hemisphere con...,
What does the right hemisphere co...
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BIOPSYCHOLOGY - plasticity and functional recovery of the brain after trauma
What is plasticity,
What did gopnik et al 1999 say ab...,
Outline the procedure findings of...
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BIOPSYCHOLOGY - ways of studying the brain
What is functional magnetic reson...,
What is neural activity and mappi...,
Evaluate the use of fmri
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BIOPSYCHOLOGY - circadian rhythms
What are biological rhythms,
What are circadian rhythms,
What is an example of an exogenou...
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BIOPSYCHOLOGY - infradian and ultradian rhythms
What is an infradian rhythm,
Outline the menstrual cycle,
Outline stern and mcclintock 1998
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BIOPSYCHOLOGY - endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers
What are endogenous pacemakers,
Outline decoursey et al 2000,
What are the findings of decourse...
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - case studies and content analysis
What are case studies,
What kind of data does case study...,
How do researchers construct a ca...
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - reliability
What is reliability,
What is internal reliability,
What is external reliability
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - validity
What is validity,
What is internal validity,
What is external validity
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - choosing a statistical test
What is a statistical test,
What are the 3 factors to conside...,
What is nominal data
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - probability ad significance
What is the p value,
What are significance levels,
What is a type i error
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - NON PARAMETRIC: mann-whitney and wilcoxon
When do you use mann whitney,
Step 1 of mann whitney,
Step 2 of mann whitney
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - PARAMETRIC: unrelated and related t tests
What is an unrelated t test,
Step 1,
Step 2
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - TESTS OF CORRELATION : Spearman's and Pearson's
Why is spearman s rho used,
Summary of how to do spearman s r...,
Why is pearson s r used
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - TEST OF ASSOCIATION: Chi-squared
Why chi,
Summary of how to do chi squared ...
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - reporting psychological investigations
What is an abstract,
What is an introduction,
What is a method
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Y13 RESEARCH METHODS - features of a science
What is a paradigm,
What are the key features of a sc...,
What is meant by a paradigm shift
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RELATIONSHIPS - evolutionary explanations for partner preferences
What is sexual selection,
Who came up with sexual selection,
What is anisogamy
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RELATIONSHIPS - factors affecting attraction: Self- Disclosure
What is self disclosure,
Who proposed social penetration t...,
What is social penetration
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RELATIONSHIPS - factors affecting attraction : Physical attractiveness
What is physical attractiveness,
Shakelford and larsen 1997,
Explain the halo effect
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RELATIONSHIPS - Factors Affecting Attrction: Filter Theory
What is filter theory,
What is the 3 levels of filter,
Explain social demography
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