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Exam Terms
State 1,
Calculate 2,
Describe 3
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1.1.1 Localisation of Brain Function (Bi)
How do we know which areas of the...,
What are the two halves of the br...,
What are the cerebral hemispheres...
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1.1.6 The Biological Approach compare and contrast (Bi)
What is the key assumption of the...,
What research methods are used in...,
What therapy is used in the biolo...
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1.1.2 DT Anti Psychotic drugs (Bi)
What is anti psychotic medication 1,
How many people have schizophrenia 2,
What are the positive symptoms of...
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1.1.2 DT Anti-depressant Drugs (Bi)
What are the symptoms of depressi...,
What is depression caused by 2,
What are ssris 3
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1.1.2 DT Anti Anxiety Drugs (Bi)
Give examples of anxiety disorders 1,
What does an an anxiety disorder ...,
What drugs can be used to treat a...
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1.1.3 Strengths & Weaknesses (Biological Approach)
What is the second step of evalua...,
What is the third step in evaluat...,
Give strength one of the biologic...
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1.1.1 Neurotransmitters (Bi)
What are neurones 1,
What do multiple neurones form 2,
Do neurons physically connect 3
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1.2 Drug Therapy assumptions (Bi)
Give and example of another form ...,
Give a weakness of drug therapy 2,
Give an example for drug therapy ...
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1.1.4 Classic Research (Bi)
What did research show about rats...,
What did severing the corpus call...,
What does the research on rats su...
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1.1.4 Raine Et Al Study (Bi)
What is research hypothesis 1 1,
What is the purpose of the contro...,
Is research hypothesis 1 adirecti...
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2.1.1 Experimental Methodologies (RM)
Give some strengths of a laborato...,
Give some weaknesses of lab exper...,
Give examples of demand character...
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1.2.4 Bowlby Findings And Conclusions (PD)
How many main personality types d...,
List the personality types 2,
Describe the normal personality t...
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1.2.1 Tripartite Personality (PD)
What is the tripartite personalit...,
What are the three parts of the p...,
When does the id develop 3
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1.2.1 The Unconcious Mind (PD)
What does this assumption say 1,
What analogy is used to explain t...,
What are the 3 parts to the icebe...
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1.2.1 Childhood Experiences (PD)
What did freud say we pass through 1,
To develop a healthy personality ...,
What can occur in some stages 3
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1.2.2 applications of assumptions Dream Analysis (PD)
What is dream analysis 1,
What is our current psychological...,
What does dream analysis do to th...
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1.2.2 Dreams As Wish Fullfillment (PD)
What did freud suggest all dreams...,
What did freud base his third of ...,
What was the context of freud s 3
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1.2.2 Symbolic Nature Of Dreams (PD)
Why are unconscious desires disgu...,
What is manifest content 2,
What did freud believe about the ...
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1.2.2 Dreamwork & The Therapist (PD)
What is latent content 1,
What is manifest content 2,
What is the role of the therapist...
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1.3.1 The Behaviourist Approach (Be)
What does the behaviourist approa...,
What was the behaviourist approac...,
What is the main assumption of th...
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1.3.1 Blank Slate Assumption (Be)
What does tabula rasa mean 1,
What does this assumption mean 2,
What does the blank slate assumpt...
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1.3.1 Conditioning Assumption (Be)
What is conditioning 1,
What are the two types of conditi...,
In short what is classical condit...
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1.3.1 Learning Assumption (Be)
What does the learning assumption...,
What do behaviourists believe abo...,
If animals and humans learn in th...
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1.3.2 Systematic Desensitisation
What is systematic desensitisation 1,
What does the behavioural approac...,
According to classical conditioni...
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1.2.4 Bowlby Methodology And Procedure (PD)
What were the types of long lasti...,
What were some of the negative so...,
What were some of the negative em...
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1.3.3 Strengths And Weaknesses Of behaviourist Approach (Be)
What can happen to these factors ...,
What can controlled experiments i...,
Give an example of experiments in...
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1.3.2 Effectiveness & Ethics Of SD (Be)
Who did cafons et al treat 1,
What did cafons et al treat the p...,
What did cafons compare the exper...
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1.3.4 Classical Research - Little Albert
Method what was the little albert...,
Method what research method was u...,
Method who was the participant 3
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1.4.1 Internal Mental Processes (Co)
What processes are seen as interc...,
These processing systems allow us...,
What is perception 3
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1.5.2 Effectiveness Of Mindfulness (Po)
What did brown and ryan s 2013 re...,
What did sharipo et al s 2002 rea...,
What did mantsiod giannov s resea...
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1.5.2 Ethics Of Mindfulness (Po)
What can improving mindfulness he...,
How did ruedy and schweitzer demo...,
Why is mindfulness good for all 3
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1.5.1 Acknowledgement Of Free Will (Po)
According to this assumption what...,
According to this assumption what...,
What are humans in charge of 3
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1.5.1 Authenticity Of Goodness And Excellence (Ps)
What did seligman feel a major ob...,
Give examples of negative states 2,
What does authentic mean 3
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1.5.1 The Good Life (Po)
According to this assumption what...,
What does the good life refer to 2,
What did seligman identify 3
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1.2.6 Compare & Contrast Psychodynamic
Is the psychodynamic approach psy...,
What is the key assumption of the...,
What research methods are used in...
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1.3.6 Compare & Contrast Behaviourist
Is the behaviourist approach psyc...,
What is the key assumption of the...,
What research methods are used in...
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1.4.6 Compare & Contrast Cognitive
Is the cognitive approach psychol...,
What is the key assumption of the...,
What research methods are used in...
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1.5.6 Compare & Contrast Positive
Is the positive approach biologic...,
What is the key assumption of the...,
What research methods are used in...
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1.1.2 Effectiveness And Ethics Of Drug Therapy (Bi)
What is an ethical issue of the u...,
What is an ethical issue in getti...,
What is an ethical issue regardin...
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1.1.4 Evaluation Of Raine Study
Why is the study being a quasi ex...,
Give an example of a cv that coul...,
Because the study is a quasi expe...
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1.1.5 Biological Debate
What do neuroscientists study 1,
What has modern technology allowe...,
What is the debate surrounding ne...
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1.2.2 Ethics Of dream Analysis (Ps)
How might dream analysis cause em...,
What do patients have to be warne...,
What cost benefit analysis has to...
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1.2.2 Effectiveness Of Dream Analysis (Ps)
Why is it difficult to assess the...,
What were some of keller et al s ...,
What percentage of therapy sessio...
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1.4.1 Computer Analogy (Co)
What does the computer analogy as...,
What is this assumption an extens...,
What process occurs in humans and...
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1.4.1 Schemas (Co)
What is a schema 1,
What are some types of schema 2,
Give an example of an object sche...
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1.4.2 REBT (Co)
What is rebt 1,
What is it though irrational beha...,
What does rebt aim to do 3
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1.4.2 Evaluation Of REBT (Co)
Rebt allows for the involvement o...,
Rebt can be an individual or grou...,
Where can rebt be used why does t...
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1.5.2 Mindfulness - Application of Assumptions (Po)
What does mindfulness create cond...,
What does mindfulness involve 2,
What does mindfulness help 3
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1.4.3 strengths & weaknesses cognitive (Co)
One strength is that the cognitiv...,
What does rebt do 2,
Why is the useful application of ...
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1.4.4 - Classic Research Loftus & palmer (Co)
What did carmichael et al find ab...,
What does carmichael s research s...,
If we are faced with an ambiguous...
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1.4.4 Evaluation Of Loftus And Palmer Study (co)
One strength of the methodology w...,
What do the experiments involve c...,
What are the strengths of control...
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1.4.5 Cognitive Debate - Reliability Of EWT
Why do juries give a lot of weigh...,
What did the innocence project st...,
Why are wrongful convictions and ...
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2.2.4 Studies (non experimental)
What is a case study 1,
What can case studies give you in...,
What are sources of info a psycho...
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2.4.1 Ethics
Why do we need to consider ethics...,
Living beings are sentient beings...,
Where did modern psychologists co...
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3.1.3 Personality and Addiction
What are individual differences 1,
What is personality 2,
Is a persons personality relative...
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3.1.4 Media & Addiction
How does bandura s slt apply to t...,
Lyons et al found alcohol use was...,
Glantz et al said the no of smoke...
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3.3.1 Characteristics Of Stress
Why is stress not considered a me...,
Stress is the physical and psycho...,
Are the circumstances that cause ...
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1.5.2 Mindfulness (Po)
What was kabat zinn s definition ...,
Mindfulness creates conditions fo...,
Where does mindfulness have its r...
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3.4.1 Psychology Is A Science (Con)
What is a controversy 1,
What does a controversy not have 2,
Benefits what is science concerne...
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3.4.1 Psychology Isn't A Science (Con)
Against not all psychological res...,
Against give an example of how so...,
Against but some psychological th...
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3.4.3 Culture Bias (Con)
Most psychological knowledge is b...,
What is the weird population 2,
Smith and bond of the studies in ...
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3.3.3 Hardy Personality (Str)
A person with a hardy personality...,
A person with a hardy personality...,
In hardy coping how do people hig...
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3.3.3 Hardiness Evaluation (Str)
Importance of 3cs maddi believed ...,
Importance of 3cs does sandvik ag...,
Importance of 3cs who did sandvik...
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3.3.3 Type A & B Personalities (Str)
Give some features of a type a pe...,
Give some features of the type b ...,
Who developed the theory of the t...
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3.3.3 Type A & B Evaluation (Str)
Physiological responses there is ...,
Physiological responses what did ...,
Physiological responses friedman ...
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3.3.4 Life Events (Str)
What are life events a key source...,
Life events require significant w...,
Give examples of some life events 3
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3.3.4 Life Events Evaluation (Str)
Culture bias where was the srrs s...,
Culture bias it is possible diffe...,
Culture bias zheng and lin looked...
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3.3.4 Daily Hassles (Str)
What are daily hassles 1,
What might daily hassles include 2,
Why might daily hassles be a more...
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3.3.4 Daily Hassles Evaluation (Str)
Support research has demonstrated...,
Support bouteyre studied how many...,
Support bouteyre found how many o...
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3.2.2 Dopamine Explanation (Sch)
Dopamine what did research in the...,
Dopamine what is parkinson s dise...,
Dopamine what did the drug l dopa...
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3.2.2 Dopamine Hypothesis Evaluation (Sch)
Genes many researchers believe do...,
Genes there is a large body of ev...,
Genes gottesman as genetic simila...
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3.2.2 Structural Abnormalities (Sch)
When could this theory be develop...,
Enlarged ventricles what are vent...,
Enlarged ventricles in some indiv...
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3.2.2 Structural Abnormalities Evaluation (Sch)
Replicable mccarley it has been c...,
Replicable suddeth et al looked a...,
Replicable suddeth what was found...
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3.2.3 Psychodynamic explanation of schizophrenia
How old are you in the oral stage 1,
In the oral stage how is satisfac...,
How do you become orally fixated 3
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3.2.3 Psychodynamic Evaluation (Sch)
1 today freudian concepts are vie...,
2 the psychodynamic approach has ...,
2 why is the unconscious mind dif...
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3.2.3 Cognitive Explanations Of Schizophrenia
Hallucinations what percent of pe...,
Hallucinations most people experi...,
Hallucinations what can cause peo...
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3.2.3 Cognitive Evaluation (Sch)
Schemas hemsley believed the brea...,
Support barch compared people wit...,
Support barch those with schizoph...
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3.3.5 Beta Blockers (modifying Stress)
What are beta blockers 1,
How they work the body s response...,
How they work activation of the s...
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3.3.5 Beta Blockers Evaluation (modifying Stress)
Benefits on performance beta bloc...,
Benefits on performance nefter ga...,
Benefits on performance participa...
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3.2.4 Sociocultural Factors (Sch)
What are sociocultural factors 1,
To understand the causes of schiz...,
Urbanicity there is higher preval...
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3.2.4 Sociocultural Evaluation (Sch)
What are the 3 aspects of the eva...,
Mechanisms general health is norm...,
Mechanisms why might public healt...
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1.5.4 Who Is Happy?
Who conducted the research and wh...,
The research wants to understand ...,
Myers and deiner looked at the ev...
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1.3.5 Conditioning Techniques To Control Children
What is the debate 1,
Home for the supernanny team advo...,
Home for the techniques the super...
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1.3.4 Evaluation Of Little Albert
Methodology and procedure 1 what ...,
Methodology and procedure 1 evs w...,
Methodology and procedure 1 how w...
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1.3.4 Ethics & Social Of Little Albert
Harm albert was not protected fro...,
Harm watson and rayner initially ...,
Harm as time went on what became ...
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1.5.3 Strengths & Weaknesses Positive
S real life applications the posi...,
S real life applications eg schoo...,
S real life applications what act...
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1.5.4 Evaluation Of Who Is Happy
Methodology the data collected by...,
Methodology self report when some...,
Methodology self report why might...
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1.5.4 Ethical & Social Myers & Deiner
The research raised very little r...,
There was no manipulation as you ...,
Why do you need to work with ethi...
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1.1.1 Evolutionary influences (Bi)
What does the evolutionary assump...,
Explain the process of evolution 2,
What is the biologically prepared...
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2.1.1 Research terminology
What is a hypothesis 1,
What is an aim 2,
What is a directional hypothesis 3
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2.2.1 Observations (non experimental)
What do observations involve 1,
You can use a video camera to rec...,
What are some weaknesses of using...
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2.2.2 self report methods (non experimental)
What are two examples of self rep...,
What do self report methods invol...,
Do self reports produce qualitati...
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2.2.3 Analyses (content, correlational) (Non experimental)
What is a content analysis 1,
What is a content analysis used f...,
What sort of communications can a...
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2.2.5 Brain scans (non experimental)
What are brain scans 1,
What are the two types of brain s...,
What is a structural brain scan 3
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2.3.1 Participants & Probability sampling
What is a target population 1,
In a study to investigate whether...,
In an ideal world who would you s...
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2.3.2 Non probability sampling
What is involved in non probabili...,
What are the four non probability...,
What is opportunity sampling 3
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2.3.3 Experimental designs
What is the experimental group 1,
What is the control group 2,
What do the placebo group provide 3
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2.4.2 Dealing with ethical issues and humans
In some cases what us the way of ...,
What is debriefing 2,
When is debriefing carried out why 3
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2.4.3 ethical issues and non human animals
What harm can be caused to animals 1,
What is an issue with consent and...,
What is an issue of using animals 3
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2.4.4 Reliability and Validity
What is another word for reliabil...,
What does validity refer to 2,
A study lacking reliability will ...
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2.6.2 Social psychology & Milgram
What are social psychologists int...,
Give examples of research methods...,
When was milgrams research carrie...
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2.5.1 levels of measurement
What are the four levels of measu...,
What is nominal data 2,
Give an example of nominal data 3
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2.5.2 Descriptive statistics
How do you calculate the mean 1,
What is a strength of using the m...,
What is a weakness of using the m...
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3.1.1 Characteristics of Addiction
Rather than talk about addiction ...,
What does dependence involve 2,
The word addiction comes from the...
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3.1.1 Issues when studying addiction
Studies of addiction require indi...,
Studying addiction in a lab often...,
It can be difficult to obtain a r...
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3.1.2 Dopamine & addicton
What is dopamine 1,
What are high levels of dopamine ...,
Dopamine was associated with addi...
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3.1.2 Evaluating dopamine & addiction
What did corigall coen s 1991 rat...,
Corigall coen what does the nicot...,
How is corigall coen s rat resear...
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3.1.2 Genetics & Addiction
What is the genetic explanation u...,
What does the genetic explanation...,
What are first degree relatives f...
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3.1.2 Evaluating Genes & Addiction
For in what percentage of dead al...,
For in what percentage of dead no...,
For in what percentage of dead sm...
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3.1.2 Evaluating dopamine & genetic explanations
From a social and ethical view wh...,
Biological explanations reduce bl...,
Is the biological explanation a d...
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3.1.3 Evaluation of personality & addiction
Support gossop eysenck the drug a...,
Support what does gossop and eyse...,
Support gossop eysenck how many a...
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3.1.3 Cognitive Biases (Add)
How could computer analogy explai...,
How could schemas explain addicti...,
According to the cognitive view a...
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3.1.3 Cognitive biases evaluation (Add)
Support who did griffiths compare 1,
Support what did griffiths compare 2,
Support what did griffiths find 3
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3.1.4 Peer influences (Add)
Give a statistic demonstrating th...,
Give an example of the role of ob...,
In reality peer influences on add...
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3.1.4 Peer influences evaluation (Add)
Support simons morton farnat cond...,
Support simons morton farnat almo...,
S m f what are prospective studies 3
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3.2.1 Characteristics of schizophrenia
What is schizophrenia not 1,
What is schizophrenia characteris...,
How many people in england wales ...
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3.2.1 issues in investigating schizophrenia
What are the 5 issues of investig...,
To be diagnosed with schizophreni...,
Why is diagnostic criteria a pote...
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3.1.4 Media & Addiction evaluation
Majority of research on media and...,
What is a weakness of a lot of re...,
Pechmann shih used a lab experime...
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3.1.5 Agonist & Antagonist substitution (Add)
These drugs are mainly given to a...,
Why do bio psychologists advocate...,
What is an agonist 3
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3.1.5 Agonist & Antagonist Evaluation (Add)
Agonist nice assessed 31 reviews ...,
Agonist methadone what is a rando...,
Agonist methadone nice found high...
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3.1.5 Aversion Therapy (Add)
What principles is aversion thera...,
What do we want addicts to associ...,
Antabuse what is antabuse used to...
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3.1.5 Aversion Therapy Evaluation (Add)
Antabuse niederhofer staffen comp...,
Antabuse niederhofer staffen foun...,
Antabuse jorgensen et al found th...
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3.3.2 Adrenaline & Acute stress
Sam what does sam stand for 1,
Sam when a stressor is perceived ...,
Sam activation of the sympathetic...
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3.3.2 Evaluation: Adrenaline & Acute Stress
Support of c issues a number of r...,
Support of c issues kario et al 2...,
Support of c issues kario et al f...
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3.3.2 Cortisol & chronic stress
What does the hpa pathway stand f...,
Hpa pathway when a stressor is en...,
Hpa pathway 1 stressor is perceiv...
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3.3.2 Evaluation: Cortisol & chronic stress
Hpa pathway evidence of the hpa p...,
Hpa pathway lacey et al 2000 foun...,
Hpa pathway what does lacey et al...
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3.2.4 Dysfunctional Families exp. (Sch)
What theory did bateson come up w...,
Double bind symptoms of schizophr...,
Double bind these communication d...
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3.2.4 Dysfunctional Families Evaluation (Sch)
Lack of research support many stu...,
Lack of research support there is...,
Lack of research support liem gav...
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2.6.2 Developmental Psychology & Kohlberg
What does development refer to 1,
What studies do psychologists use...,
What was kohlberg s aim 3
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2.6.2 Kohlberg Evaluation
Ecological validity why did kohlb...,
Ecological validity gilligan kohl...,
Ecological validity gilligan the ...
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