A-Level Psychology AQA

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🔵 Approaches - Origins of Psychology
Psychology 1,
Science 2,
Introspection 3
33  cards
🔵 Approaches - The Psychodynamic Approach
Psychodynamic approach 1,
The unconscious mind 2,
Id 3
42  cards
🔵 Approaches - The Behaviourist Approach
Behaviourist approach 1,
Classical conditioning 2,
Operant conditioning 3
31  cards
🔵 Approaches - The Humanistic Approach
Humanistic psychology approach 1,
Free will 2,
Self actualisation 3
28  cards
🔵 Approaches - The Cognitive Approach
Cognitive approach 1,
Internal mental processes 2,
Schema 3
28  cards
🔵 Approaches - The Social Learning Theory
Social learning theory 1,
Imitation 2,
Modelling 3
23  cards
🔵 Approaches - The Biological Approach
What is the biological approach 1,
5 assumptions of approach 2,
Heredity 3
43  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - The Nervous System
What is our nervous system divide...,
What does the central nervous sys...,
What does our brain control 3
25  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - Neurons
Function of dendrites 1,
Function of terminal branches of ...,
Function of myelin sheaf 3
17  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - The Endocrine System
What does the endocrine system do 1,
Difference between nervous system...,
Main function of endocrine system 3
16  cards
🟠 Psychopathology - Definitions of Abnormality
What are the 4 definitions of abn...,
What is statistical infrequency 2,
Example of statistical infrequency 3
19  cards
🟠 Psychopathology - Phobias Characteristics
What are phobias 1,
3 types of phobias 2,
5 subtypes of specific phobias 3
9  cards
🟠 Psychopathology - Phobias Explanation
What does the behavioural approac...,
What does the two process model h...,
How does classical conditioning c...
12  cards
🟠 Psychopathology - Phobias Treatments
What is systematic desensitisation 1,
First stage of systematic desensi...,
Second stage of systematic desens...
15  cards
🟠 Psychopathology - Depression
What is depression 1,
Behaviour characteristics of depr...,
Emotional characteristics of depr...
24  cards
🟠 Psychopathology - OCD
What is ocd 1,
Behavioural characteristics of ocd 2,
Emotional characteristics of ocd 3
40  cards
🟡 Attachment - Caregiver Infant Interactions
What is attachment 1,
4 attachment behaviours 2,
Stranger anxiety 3
18  cards
🟡 Attachment - Stages of Attachment
4 stages of attachment and time p...,
Asocial stage 2,
Indiscriminate attachments 3
11  cards
🟡 Attachment - Role of the Father
Historically what was the role of...,
Fathers modern day role 2,
What was grossman 2002 aims 3
15  cards
🟡 Attachment - Animal Studies
Who was konrad lorenz 1,
4 steps of method for lorenz 2,
4 factors what lorenz found 3
20  cards
🟡 Attachment - Learning Theories
What 4 factors did dollard and mi...,
Example of classical conditioning...,
How does it differ from animal st...
5  cards
🟡 Attachment - Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory
Acronym for monotropic theory 1,
Micis 2,
Basic outline of bowlbys theory 3
16  cards
🟡 Attachment - Strange Situation
Who investigated strange situatio...,
Aim of mary 2,
Method 3
19  cards
🟡 Attachment - Cultural Variations in Attachment
Culture 1,
2 broad types of culture 2,
What is an individualist culture 3
12  cards
🟡 Attachment - Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis
What is maternal deprivation 1,
What did bowlby believe a child n...,
Bowlbys hypothesis 3
15  cards
🟡 Attachment - Influence of Early Attachment
Bowlbys internal working model 1,
What do early attachments affect 2,
Myron wilson and smith 1998 study...
8  cards
🟡 Attachment - Romanian Orphan Studies
Privation 1,
Institutionalisation 2,
Summary of history of romania 3
18  cards
⚪️ Memory - Multi-store Model of Memory
Who is the multi store model of m...,
3 boxes in multi store model of m...,
Sensory register 3
34  cards
⚪️ Memory - Types of LTM
Which psychologist realised that ...,
3 types of long term memory 2,
Episodic memory 3
21  cards
⚪️ Memory - Working Memory Model
Components of wmm 1,
What did baddeley and hitch argue 2,
What is the role of the working m...
23  cards
⚪️ Memory - Interference as an Explanation for Forgetting
Interference 1,
Proactive interference 2,
Retroactive interference 3
11  cards
⚪️ Memory - Retrieval Failure as an Explantion for Forgetting
What is retrieval failure 1,
What does this theory suggest is ...,
What is the encoding specificity ...
26  cards
⚪️ Memory - Eye Witness Testimony & Misleading Information
Who are eyewitnesses 1,
How do leading questions affect e...,
Loftus and palmer experiment 1 me...
15  cards
⚪️ Memory - Post-Event Discussion
What is post event discussion and...,
According to the source monitorin...,
What does the conformity theory a...
8  cards
⚪️ Memory - Eyewitness Testimony & Anxiety
What is the effect of crime on ew 1,
What is the weapons focus effect 2,
What is the yerkes dodson law on ...
12  cards
⚪️ Memory - Cognitive Interview
Who developed the cognitive inter...,
What is the cognitive interview 2,
Acronym for techniques in the cog...
13  cards
🟣 Social Influence - Conformity
What is conformity 1,
What is majority conformity 2,
What is minority conformity 3
33  cards
🟣 Social Influence - Conformity to Social Roles
What is a social role 1,
What does it mean to conform to a...,
Experiment for conforming to soci...
12  cards
🟣 Social Influence - Obedience
What originally made milgram want...,
Procedure of milgrams experiment 2,
Findings of milgrams experiment 3
23  cards
🟣 Social Influence - Situational Variables Affecting Obediance
What is a situational variable 1,
3 variations of milgrams study 2,
How does the 3 proximity variatio...
8  cards
🟣 Social Influence - The Authoritarian Personality
Situational explanation for obedi...,
Dispositional explanation for obe...,
Who created the theory of the aut...
9  cards
🟣 Social Influence - Resistance to Social Influence
What does it mean to resist socia...,
In asch s study what percentage o...,
How does social support affect co...
13  cards
🟣 Social Influence - Minority Influence
What is minority influence 1,
3 factors of the minority persuad...,
Consistency 3
11  cards
🟣 Social Influence - Social Change
What is social change 1,
When does social change occur 2,
6 steps to cause social change 3
9  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - Localisation of Function
What is localisation of brain fun...,
What is the outer layer of both h...,
Areas of the brain to remember 3
47  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - Ways of Studying the Brain
What are invasive methods of stud...,
1 invasive method 2,
What is a post mortem examination 3
20  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - Lateralisation & Split Brain
What is the corpus collosum 1,
What is split brain research 2,
What is lateralisation 3
16  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - Plasticity Functional Recovery
What is brain plasticity 1,
By the age of 2 3 how many synapt...,
When learning new information wha...
20  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - Circadian Rhythms
What are biological rhythms 1,
What is a circadian rhythm 2,
What 2 things are biological rhyt...
22  cards
🟢 Biopsychology - Infradian & Ultradian Rhythms
What is an infradian rhythm 1,
3 examples of infradian rhythms 2,
Menstrual cycle 3
20  cards
🔘 RESEARCH METHODS YEAR 12
What is an aim 1,
What is a one tailed hypothesis a...,
What is a hypotheses 3
147  cards
⚫️ Stress - The Physiology of Stress
What is stress 1,
What state does stress cause 2,
Short term reaction to stress 3
24  cards
⚫️ Stress - Stress & Illness
What is immunosuppression 1,
What are lymphocytes 2,
2 types of lymphocytes 3
27  cards
⚫️ Stress - Life Events as a Source of Stress
Examples of life changing events 1,
What is the srrs 2,
Work of holmes and rahe 1967 3
12  cards
⚫️ Stress - Daily Hassles as a Source of Stress
What is a daily hassle 1,
What is a daily uplift 2,
Blank 3
22  cards
⚫️ Stress - Measuring Stress SCR
Straight away main positives of p...,
Physiological methods of measurem...,
One immediate problem of physiolo...
9  cards
⚫️ Stress - Workplace as a Source of Stress
What is the demand control model ...,
Key study to remember 2,
Aim of johannson 1978 3
13  cards
⚫️ Stress - Individual Differences in Stress: Personality & Hardiness
Personality 1,
Characteristics of type a persona...,
Characteristics of type b persona...
15  cards
⚫️ Stress - Managing Stress: SIT
Sit 1,
Cbt development 2,
Meichenbaum 1985 3
12  cards
⚫️ Stress - Biofeedback
2 physical stress responses 1,
What did neal miller show 2,
Is biofeedback considered psychol...
14  cards
⚫️ Stress - Drug Therapy
Stress responses involved in drug...,
2 types of anti anxiety drugs 2,
Benzodiazepines 3
13  cards
⚫️ Stress - Social Support & Gender
Taylor 2000 1,
Evidence of a different response ...,
One weaknesses about this view of...
23  cards
🔘 Research Methods - Features of Science
Acronym to remember features of s...,
Flying harry potter 2,
Falsifiable 3
13  cards
🔘 Research Methods - Reporting Psychological Investigations
Why would someone write a scienti...,
First section of a psychology rep...,
Abstract 3
11  cards
🔘 Research Methods: Probability & Significance
What is nominal data 1,
What is ordinal data 2,
Interval data 3
8  cards
🔘 Research Methods: Stastical Tests
2 key reasons for stastical tests 1,
3 key criteria for selecting a st...,
Spearman s rho 3
11  cards
🟤 Forensics - Offender Profiling: Top-Down Approach
When and where did the top down a...,
What data is the top down approac...,
What is the top down approach use...
15  cards
🟤 Forensics - Offender Profiling: Bottom-Up Approach
When and where was the bottom up ...,
Who was the bottom up approach de...,
Key difference to top down approa...
15  cards
🟤 Forensics - Biological Explanations: Atavistic Approach
Atavistic 1,
What is the eugenic movement 2,
Who proposed the atavistic approa...
14  cards
🟤 Forensics - Biological Explanations: Genetic & Neural
What does the genetic explanation...,
What is the maoa gene 2,
What is the maoa l gene 3
14  cards
🟤 Forensics: Psychological Explanations: Psychodynamic
What did freud suggest are the 3 ...,
What is the id 2,
What is the ego 3
13  cards
🟤 Forensics - Psychological Explanations: Cognitive Explanations
What is included in cognitive exp...,
Levels of moral reasoning context 2,
Lawrence kohlbergs view on crimin...
23  cards
🟤 Forensics - Psychological Explanations: Eysenk’s Theory of Criminal Personality
Eysenks 3 factor model 1,
Eysenck theory of personality 2,
How does eysenck measure personal...
20  cards
🟤 Forensics - Psychological Explanations: Differential Association Theory
What does the differential associ...,
Dat who was it proposed by and wh...,
What did sutherland propose 3
12  cards
🟤 Forensics - Dealing with Offending Behaviour & Recividism
What is a custodial sentence 1,
Population in uk male prison 2,
4 purposes of custodial sentencing 3
26  cards
🟤 Forensics - Dealing With Offending Behaviour: Behaviour Modification
What the definition of behaviour ...,
What is the definition of behavio...,
What is a primary reinforcer 3
15  cards
🟤 Forensics - Dealing With Offending Behaviour: Anger Management
What is anger management 1,
Novaco 1975 anger management 2,
3 stages of anger management 3
13  cards
🟤 Forensics - Dealing With Offending Behaviour: Restorative Justice Prigrammes
What is restorative justice 1,
Aims of restorative justice 2,
4 advantages of restorative justi...
7  cards
🌐 Issues & Debates - Gender Bias
What is the definition of gender ...,
What is the definition of univers...,
What is the definition of androce...
25  cards
🌐 Issues & Debates - Cultural Bias
Cultural bias 1,
What is imposed guilty 2,
What is cultural relativism 3
13  cards
🌐 Issues & Debates - Nature vs Nurture
Nature 1,
Nurture 2,
Deterministic view nature 3
20  cards
🌐 Issues & Debates - Free Will vs Determinism
Free will 1,
Determinism 2,
Hard determinism 3
18  cards
🌐 Issues + Debates - Holism vs Reductionism
Where does the word holism come f...,
Idea of holism 2,
What did gestalt psychologists de...
25  cards
🌐 Issues + Debates - Idiographic vs Nomothetic
Idiographic 1,
Nomothetic 2,
Idiographic methods of investigat...
14  cards
🌐 Issues + Debates - Ethical Implications of Psychological Research
What are ethical implications 1,
Example of research study and the...,
How did bowlbys theory of attachm...
15  cards
❤️ Relationships - Sexual Selection
What is the theory of evolution 1,
What is sexual selection 2,
Why are traits that increase repr...
18  cards
❤️ Relationships - Factors Affecting Attraction in Relationships: Self-Disclosure + Physical Attraction
Self disclosure 1,
Sternberg 1968 on self disclosure...,
Altman and taylor 1973 social pen...
17  cards
❤️ Relationships - Factors Affecting Attraction in Romantic Relationshops: Filter Theory
3 parts of the filter theory 1,
Filter model 2,
The filter model kerckoff and dav...
11  cards
❤️ Relationships - Theories of Romantic relationships: Social Exchange Theory
Social exchange theory set 1,
Ways to measure profit in a relat...,
Thibault and kelley 1959 profit a...
12  cards
❤️ Relationships - Theories of Romantic Relationships: Equity theory
Equity theory 1,
Who was the equity theory propose...,
How is equity theory different to...
12  cards
❤️ Relationships - Theories of Romantic relationships: Duck model of relationship Breakdown
Duck 1992 phase model of relation...,
Picture of stages 2,
Thresholds 3
14  cards
❤️ Relationships - Theories of Romantic relationships: The Investment model
Rusbult 1983 investment model 1,
Investment model link between com...,
How can commitment be strengthene...
14  cards
❤️ Relationships: Virtual relationships
Self disclosure in virtual relati...,
Reduced cues theory 2,
Hyperpersonal model 3
13  cards
❤️ Relationships: Parasocial relationships, absorption addiction model and the attachment theory explanation
What is a parasocial relationship 1,
More about parasocial relationshi...,
Parasocial relationships are more...
20  cards
1. Diagnosing Schizophrenia
What is schizophrenia 1,
Schizophrenia literal meaning 2,
Onset of schizophrenia 3
36  cards
2.1 Biological Explanation of Schizophrenia COPY
Genetic factors that can cause sc...,
Genetic factors evidence gottesma...,
Evidence for biological explanati...
19  cards
2.2 Neural Explanations of Schizophrenia (Biological)
Neurological factors that could c...,
What is a neural correlate 2,
Evidence for neurological factors...
6  cards
Evolutionary Explanation of Schizophrenia
0  cards
2.3 Psychological Explanations of Schizophrenia
Psychological factors of schizoph...,
Psychological factors of schizoph...,
Bateson et al 1972 double bind th...
16  cards
2.4 Cognitive Explanation of Schizophrenia
What does the cognitive explanati...,
Cognitive explanations of sz 2,
Dysfunction in meta representatio...
7  cards
3. Interactionist Explanation of Schizophrenia (Diathesis-Stress)
The diathesis stress model combin...,
Importance of an interactionist a...,
What does the diathesis stress mo...
16  cards
4.1 Treating Schizophrenia - Drug Therapy
Biological approach to treating sz 1,
General idea of biological drug t...,
See cgp pg182 for diagram of anti...
18  cards
4.2 Treating Schizophrenia - CBT
Psychological therapies for treat...,
General idea behind cbt as treatm...,
What does cbt often involve 3
12  cards
4.3 Treating Schizophrenia - Psychological
Psychological therapies for treat...,
What does family therapy often in...,
Advantages of family therapy to t...
7  cards
5. Management of Schizophrenia
What can be used to manage sz 1,
How can token economies be used t...,
What did ayllon azrin 1968 do 3
12  cards

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