Introduction and Basic History

Question 1

Double Blind Studies

Answer 1

• patients and clinicians don’t know what treatment is being used
• removes complete bias from all parties

Question 2

Quality Checks

Answer 2

• treatment checks to ensure the practice that is said to be done is done

Question 3

Exposure Therapy

Answer 3

gradual exposure to a feared stimulus without the reaction to remove the feared response

similar to extinction learning
(new unlearning)

Question 4

Milgram’s Study of Obedience to Authority

Answer 4

discovered the influence of a person of authority in a patients decision making

changes relating to:
whether they were paid, the proximity of victim, the presence of a contradicting authority and any direct authority

Question 5

Introspection

Answer 5

Wundt
- look inwards to examine one’s own conscious experience
- unreliable hearsay

Question 6

Functionalism

Answer 6

• consistent within an evolutionary framework
• focusses on identifying the steps by which a task is achieved
• the process, not the underlying mechanism

Question 7

Psychoanalysis

Answer 7

important psychological events are predominantly unconscious, highly unsupported, despite the understanding that processing is without full conscious awareness

Question 8

Psychology as a Natural Science

Answer 8

empirical, experiments (manipulating variables to observe effects of others, analysis (determine conclusions), theory (generate predictions)

Question 9

BDNF

Answer 9

one growth factor, valuable for synaptic plasticity (neural activity that facilitates learning), critical for extinction learning, injections increase extinction learning, exercise also increases BDNF