A-level Psychology

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approaches: origins of psychology
What is the definition of science 1,
What does systematic refer to 2,
What does objectivity refer to 3
16  cards
approaches: behaviourism
What is behaviourism 1,
Who were the leading theorists of...,
Why do behaviourists believe in s...
26  cards
approaches: social learning theory
What is the social learning theory 1,
What are the defining features of...,
What is modelling 3
15  cards
approaches: the cognitive approach
What is the cognitive approach 1,
Key assumptions of the cognitive ...,
What is a schema 3
14  cards
approaches: humanistic approach
What is the humanistic approach 1,
What is humanistic psychology kno...,
What are the key assumptions of h...
21  cards
approaches: psychodynamic approach
What is the psychodynamic approach 1,
What are the key assumptions of t...,
The importance of relationships 3
26  cards
approaches: biological approach
What is the biological approach 1,
What are the focuses of the biolo...,
How is a biological perspective r...
41  cards
memory: coding, capacity and the duration of memory
What is memory 1,
What is short term memory 2,
What is long term memory 3
37  cards
memory: types of long-term memory
Who was endel tulving 1985 1,
What are the three different type...,
What is episodic memory 3
20  cards
memory: the multi-store model of memory
Who proposed the multi store mode...,
What is the multi store model of ...,
Describe the processes of the mul...
20  cards
memory: the working model of memory
What is the working model of memo...,
Who created the working model of ...,
What is the wmm concerned with 3
29  cards
memory: explanations for forgetting -> interference
What is interference 1,
Which type of memory has interfer...,
What are the two types of interfe...
13  cards
memory: explanations for forgetting -> retrieval failure
What is retrieval failure 1,
Who proposed the encoding specifi...,
What is the encoding specificity ...
16  cards
memory: factors effecting eyewitness testimony -> misleading information
What does eyewitness testimony me...,
How do leading questions effect e...,
What are the two ways leading que...
24  cards
memory: factors effecting eyewitness testimony -> anxiety
What is anxiety 1,
What are some symptoms of anxiety 2,
What is one approach to studying ...
17  cards
memory: improving accuracy of eyewitness testimony -> cognitive interview
What is the cognitive interview 1,
Who proposed the cognitive interv...,
What did fisher and geiselman arg...
19  cards
research methods: experimental method and control of variables
What is a hypothesis 1,
What is an aim 2,
What is an experiment 3
11  cards
research methods: research issues
What is an extraneous variable 1,
What are extraneous variables des...,
What are examples of extraneous v...
10  cards
research methods: experimental designs
What does experimental design mean 1,
What are the three types of exper...,
What is the repeated measures des...
19  cards
research methods: types of experiment
What are the four types of experi...,
What is a laboratory experiment 2,
Who manipulates the iv in lab exp...
20  cards
research methods: Sampling
What does population mean 1,
What is a target population 2,
Why do researchers use samples fr...
24  cards
research methods: ethical issues and ways to deal with them
What are ethical issues 1,
What document instructs british p...,
What are the 4 main issues of eth...
23  cards
research methods: pilot studies
What are pilot studies 1,
What is the aim of pilot studies 2,
What do pilot studies aim to eval...
7  cards
research methods: types of data
What is qualitative data 1,
What are examples of qualitative ...,
What are the strengths of qualita...
21  cards
research methods: presentation of quantitative data
What are bar charts used for 1,
What is discrete data 2,
What do bar charts show 3
13  cards
research methods: peer review and psychological research and the economy
What is peer review 1,
What are the main aims of peer re...,
Outline the process of peer review 3
11  cards
research methods: measures of central tendency and dispersion
What is the advantage of using a ...,
What is the disadvantage of using...,
What is the advantage of using th...
13  cards
research methods: reliability
What is reliability 1,
When can a measurement be conside...,
What measurement tools do psychol...
16  cards
research methods: validity
What is validity 1,
How can data be reliable but not ...,
What is internal validity 3
17  cards
research methods: features of science
What features is science meant to...,
What is falsifiability 2,
Who argued that the key criterion...
26  cards
research methods: reporting psychological investigations
What is the format for psychologi...,
What is the abstract 2,
What does an abstract include 3
15  cards
research methods: observational techniques
What are the 6 types of observati...,
Why do psychologists use observat...,
What is a naturalistic observation 3
22  cards
research methods: observational design
What is observation design 1,
What are behavioural categories 2,
What are the components of behavi...
15  cards
research methods: self-report techniques
What is a questionnaire 1,
What is an open question 2,
What kind of data do open questio...
22  cards
research methods: self-report design
What are likert scales 1,
What are rating scales 2,
What is a fixed choice option 3
14  cards
research methods: correlations
What do correlations illustrate 1,
What is positive correlation 2,
What is negative correlation 3
16  cards
research methods: Probability and significance
What are the abbreviations for nu...,
What are inferential statistics 2,
What do inferential tests allow 3
16  cards
research methods: statistical testing-> the sign test
What is the sign test 1,
What are the three criteria for t...,
What word describes a p value tha...
12  cards
research methods: self-report methods -> case studies
What is a case study 1,
What are examples of case studies 2,
What do case studies often involve 3
16  cards
research methods: content analysis
What is content analysis 1,
What type of data can analysis be...,
What examples of data can analysi...
14  cards
research methods: Choosing a statistical test
What should we consider when choo...,
What does a difference vs correla...,
What experimental designs are the...
10  cards
psychopathology: defining abnormality
What are the four definitions of ...,
What is statistical deviation 2,
How are human characteristics dis...
22  cards
psychopathology: phobias
What is a phobia 1,
What are the categories of phobia...,
What is dsm 5 an abbreviation for 3
17  cards
psychopathology: depression
What is depression 1,
What is major depressive disorder 2,
What are the behavioural characte...
12  cards
psychopathology: OCD
What is ocd 1,
What is the definition of ocd 2,
What are the two components of ocd 3
15  cards
psychopathology: behavioural approach to explain phobias
What is the behavioural approach 1,
Who proposed the two process model 2,
What is the two process model 3
13  cards
psychopathology: behavioural approach to treating phobias
What are the two types of exposur...,
What is systematic desensitisation 2,
Who introduced systematic desensi...
16  cards
psychopathology: the cognitive approach to explaining depression
What are two ways of explaining d...,
What is beck s cognitive theory o...,
What is the first component of be...
19  cards
psychopathology: cognitive approach to treating depression
How do cognitive treatments follo...,
What are the two main types of co...,
What is the predominant therapy u...
23  cards
psychopathology: biological approach to explaining OCD
What is the biological approach 1,
What are the two biological expla...,
What is the genetic explanation 3
35  cards
psychopathology: biological approach to treating OCD
What is the most commonly used bi...,
What is drug therapy 2,
What are the antidepressants used...
18  cards
attachment -> caregiver-infant interactions
What is attachment 1,
How long do attachments take to d...,
What are the two way caregiver in...
23  cards
attachment -> attachment figures: the role of the father
What was the traditional role of ...,
What did early research on attach...,
How has the traditional role of t...
18  cards
attachment -> Schaffer's stages of attachment
Who studied the attachment behavi...,
How many babies did the study inv...,
Where were the babies from 3
16  cards
attachment -> animal studies of attachment
What are animal studies 1,
What is ethology 2,
What do animal experiments involve 3
27  cards
attachment -> explanations of attachment: learning theory
What is the learning theory 1,
Who suggested attachment is a lea...,
What is the learning theory somet...
19  cards
attachment -> bowlby's theory
What did bowlby propose 1,
What did bowlby s monotropic theo...,
What kind of theory is bowlby s 3
22  cards
attachment -> Ainsworth's Strange Situation
Who developed the strange situati...,
What was the aim of ainsworth s s...,
What was the procedure of ainswor...
16  cards
attachment -> cultural variations in attachment
What is the issue with attachment...,
Who did research into cross cultu...,
What was the purpose of their inv...
19  cards
attachment -> bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation
What is maternal deprivation 1,
Who proposed the theory of matern...,
According to bowlby what is neces...
24  cards
attachment -> romanian orphan studies: institutionalisation
What event in romania allowed psy...,
What happened to many newborn rom...,
What is institutionalisation 3
22  cards
attachment -> influence of early attachment on later relationships
Who proposed the internal working...,
What is the internal working model 2,
How can a baby develop a secure a...
19  cards
social influence -> conformity: types and explanations
What is social influence 1,
What is conformity 2,
What are the three types of confo...
29  cards
social influence -> conformity (Asch)
What is conformity 1,
Who did research into the extent ...,
What was the aim of asch s baseli...
22  cards
socal influence -> conformity: Stanford Prison Experiment
Who did research into conformity ...,
What are social roles 2,
What does conformity to social ro...
11  cards
social influence: obedience -> stanley milgram
What is obedience 1,
Who did research into obedience 2,
What was the aim of milgram s res...
14  cards
social influence -> obedience: milgram situational variables
What are situational variables in...,
What are the different variables ...,
How did milgram test the power of...
15  cards
social influence -> obedience: situational explanations
What are social psychological exp...,
What are the two situational theo...,
What is the agentic state 3
21  cards
social influence -> obedience: dispositional explanation
What is a dispositional explanati...,
What characteristic has been asso...,
What is the authoritarian persona...
20  cards
social influence -> resistance to social influence
What does resistance to social in...,
What is resistance to social infl...,
What are the two explanations of ...
19  cards
social influence -> minority influence
What is minority influence 1,
What does minority influence lead...,
What are the three main factors i...
23  cards
social influence -> role of social influence in social change
What is social change 1,
How has the civil rights movement...,
What are the 5 steps to reaching ...
17  cards
biopsychology -> the nervous system and the endocrine system
What is the nervous system 1,
What are the two main functions o...,
What are the two main components ...
41  cards
biopsychology -> neurons and neurotransmission
What are the three main types of ...,
Where are sensory neurons found 2,
What do sensory neurons do 3
30  cards
biospyschology: hemispheric lateralisation and split-brain research
What is hemispheric lateralisation 1,
How can you describe the role of ...,
What does lateralised mean 3
25  cards
biopsychology -> localisation of function in the brain
What is localisation of function 1,
Who proposed the theory of locali...,
What is the brain divided into 3
31  cards
biopsychology -> plasticity and functional recovery after brain trauma
What does brain plasticity refer ...,
What has research shown about bra...,
What happens to synaptic connecti...
22  cards
biopsychology -> ways of studying the brain
What are the four ways of studyin...,
What does fmri stand for 2,
What does eeg stand for 3
25  cards
biopsychology -> biological rhythms: circadian rhythms
What are biological rhythms 1,
What are the two key factors that...,
What are the three biological rhy...
21  cards
biopsychology -> biological rhythms: ultradian rhythms
What is an ultradian rhythm 1,
How many stages of sleep have psy...,
How long do all the stages of sle...
16  cards
biopsychology -> biological rhythms: infradian rhythms
What is an infradian rhythm 1,
What is an example of an infradia...,
What is the menstrual cycle 3
16  cards
biopsychology -> endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers
What are biological rhythms regul...,
What are endogenous pacemakers 2,
What are exogenous zeitgebers 3
21  cards
issues and debates -> gender bias
What is gender bias 1,
What is androcentrism 2,
What are the consequences of andr...
18  cards
issues and debates -> cultural bias
What is cultural bias 1,
How is psychology culturally bias...,
What term did henry etal coin 3
20  cards
issues and debates -> nature vs nurture
What is the nature nurture debate...,
What is the nature approach 2,
What is a nativist position 3
25  cards
issues and debates -> idiographic vs nomothetic
What is the idiographic approach 1,
Does the idiographic approach use...,
What is the nomothetic approach 3
18  cards
issues and debates -> holism and reductionism
What is holism 1,
What approach do humanistic psych...,
How does humanistic psychology ta...
17  cards
issues and debates -> ethical implications of research studies and theory
What are ethical implications 1,
What is social sensitivity 2,
What example is there of the ethi...
14  cards
schizophrenia -> introduction to schizophrenia
What is schizophrenia 1,
Where is schizophrenia classified...,
How many people are effected by s...
20  cards
schizophrenia -> biological explanations for schizophrenia
What are the three biological exp...,
What are two main arguments when ...,
What does genetic vulnerability e...
30  cards
schizophrenia -> psychological explanations: cognitive explanations
What is a cognitive explanation f...,
What is schizophrenia characteris...,
What dysfunctional thought proces...
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schizophrenia -> psychological explanations: family dysfunction
What has been put forward as a po...,
What is a dysfunctional family 2,
How does family dysfunction link ...
18  cards
schizophrenia: biological treatments for schizophrenia
What is the most common treatment...,
What are antipsychotics 2,
What 2 main types can antipsychot...
26  cards
schizophrenia: psychological treatments -> cognitive behaviour therapy
What is cognitive behaviour thera...,
What does the therapist do to hel...,
What are the three steps of cbt 3
10  cards
schizophrenia -> psychological explanations: family therapy
What is the aim of family therapy 1,
Who identified a range of strateg...,
What are the two ways family ther...
10  cards
schizophrenia: management -> token economies
What are token economies 1,
Who carried out the classic demon...,
How did ayllon and azrin trial a ...
18  cards
schizophrenia: management -> the interactionist approach
What is the interactionist approa...,
What are psychological factors in...,
What are social factors in schizo...
17  cards
forensic psychology -> offender profiling: the top-down approach
What is forensic psychology 1,
What is offender profiling 2,
Where did the top down approach o...
16  cards
forensic psychology -> offender profiling: the bottom-up approach
What is the bottom up approach 1,
Where did the bottom up approach ...,
What differentiates the bottom up...
27  cards
forensic psychology -> biological explanations: a historicist's approach
Who advanced an early biological ...,
What did lombroso suggest about c...,
How did lombroso claim criminals ...
22  cards
forensic psychology -> biological explanations: genetics
What do genetic explanations sugg...,
What is a well known method for i...,
Who did research into twins in de...
14  cards
forensic psychology: biological explanations -> neural explanations
Where does evidence of neural dif...,
What is apd associated with 2,
Who did research into the apd bra...
10  cards
forensic psychology: psychological explanations -> Eysenck's theory
Who proposed the theory of the cr...,
What two dimensions did eysenck p...,
What third dimension did eysenck ...
16  cards
forensic psychology: psychological explanations -> cognitive: level of moral reasoning
What is moral reasoning 1,
Who proposed the theory of moral ...,
What is kohlberg s levels of mora...
19  cards
forensic psychology: cognitive explanations of offending behaviour -> cognitive distortions
What are cognitive distortions 1,
What are two examples of cognitiv...,
What is hostile attribution bias 3
13  cards
forensic psychology: psychological explanations -> differential association theory
What is the differential associat...,
What do individuals learn from ot...,
Who attempted to set scientific p...
16  cards
forensic psychology: psychological explanations -> psychodynamic explanation + bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation
What does freud s psychoanalytic ...,
What is the id 2,
What is the superego 3
24  cards
forensic psychology: dealing with offending behaviour -> custodial sentencing
What is custodial sentencing 1,
What are the four main reasons fo...,
How does custodial sentencing det...
22  cards
forensic psychology: dealing with offending behaviour -> behaviour modification in custody
What are behaviour modification p...,
How do behaviour modification pro...,
What do behaviour modification pr...
13  cards
forensic psychology: dealing with offending behaviour -> restorative justice
What is restorative justice 1,
Who proposed the method of restor...,
How does restorative justice work 3
11  cards
forensic psychology: dealing with offending behaviour -> anger management
What is anger management 1,
Who proposed cognitive behaviour ...,
What did novaco propose about cog...
16  cards
cognition and development -> Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Who proposed a theory of cognitiv...,
What did piaget s theory recognise 2,
What is a schema 3
19  cards
cognition and development: Baillargeon's explanation of early infant abilities
How does baillargeon s work chall...,
What is balliargeon s argument fo...,
How did baillargeon criticise pia...
18  cards
cognition and development -> Piaget's theory of intellectual development
What are piaget s stages of intel...,
What are the four stages of intel...,
What is the sensorimotor stage 3
20  cards
cognition and development: Selman's level of perspective-taking
Who was concerned with how childr...,
What is selman s concept differen...,
What does theory of mind mean 3
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cognition and development: Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development
What did vygotsky agree with piag...,
What did vygotsky suggest about l...,
What did cognitive development in...
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cognition and development: social cognition -> theory of mind
What is autism spectrum disorder 1,
What are some features of asd 2,
What is the triad of impairment f...
26  cards
cognition and development: social cognition -> mirror neurons
What is the mirror neuron system 1,
Why are mirror neurons unique 2,
What are mirror neurons involved ...
22  cards

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