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1.1 Types of conformity and explanations for conformity
Define conformity,
What is conformity,
Define compliance
15  cards
1.2 Variables affecting conformity
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1.3 Conformity to social rules
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1.4 Situational variables affecting obedience
What was the nature of milgrams 1...,
Why did milgram investigate situa...,
What experimental variations did ...
8  cards
1.5 Agentic state and legitimacy of authority
Define agentic shift,
Define agentic state,
Define legitimate authority
8  cards
1.6 The authoritarian Personality
0  cards
1.7 Resistance to social influence
0  cards
1.8 Minority influence
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1.9 Social influence processes in social change
What are the 6 steps that allow m...,
Why must a minority influence dra...,
Why must a minority influence sho...
12  cards
2.1 Short and long term memory
What is capacity,
What is coding,
What is duration
11  cards
2.2 The multi-store model of memory
What is the multistore model,
What is the sensory register,
Summarise the multistore model of...
7  cards
2.3 The working memory model
What is the central executive,
What is the episodic buffer,
What is the phonological loop
9  cards
2.4 Types of long-term memory
What is episodic memory,
What is procedural memory,
What is semantic memory
6  cards
2.5 Explanations for forgetting: Interference
Define proactive interference,
Define retroactive interference,
What is interference
6  cards
2.6 Explanations for forgetting: Retrieval failure
What did tulving suggest as the r...,
What did tulving suggest happens ...,
Define tulvings encoding specific...
11  cards
2.7 Accuracy of eyewitness testimony: Misleading information
What is the eyewitness testimony,
What is a leading question,
What is misleading information
9  cards
2.8 Accuracy of eyewitness testimony: Anxiety
What is anxiety,
Summarise anxiety as a factor of ...,
Evaluate anxiety as a factor of t...
8  cards
2.9 Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: The cognitive interview
What is the cognitive interview,
Summarise the cognitive interview,
Evaluate cognitive interview
9  cards
3.1 Caregiver-infant interactions
What is attachment,
What is a caregiver,
What is interactional synchrony
13  cards
3.2 The development of attachment
List the 4 stages of attachment a...,
Define indiscriminate attachment,
At what time in an infants life d...
21  cards
3.3 Animal studies of attachment
Define imprinting,
Describe lorenz animal studies of...,
What did lorenz find
7  cards
3.4 Explanations of attachment: Learning theory
Describe learning theory,
Evaluate learning theory,
What is classical conditioning
6  cards
3.5 Explanations of attachment: Bowlby's theory
Continuity hypothesis,
Critical period,
Internal working model
10  cards
3.6 Ainsworth's Strange Situation: Types of attachment
What does insecure avoidant mean,
What does insecure resistant mean,
Secure attachment
8  cards
3.7 Cultural variations in attachment
Define cultural variations,
Describe cultural variations into...,
Evaluate kroonenberg et al
4  cards
3.8 Bowlby's theory maternal deprivation
Define deprivation,
Describe the findings of bowlbys ...,
Describe bowlbys theory of matern...
7  cards
3.9 Romanian orphan studies: Effects of institutionalisation
0  cards
3.10 The influence of early attachment
0  cards
4.1 Definitions of abnormality
Define cultural relativism,
Define deviation from social norms,
What does dsm stand for what is it
29  cards
4.2 Mental disorders
Define depression,
Define obsessive compulsive disor...,
Define phobias
15  cards
4.3 The behavioural approach to explaining phobias
0  cards
4.4 The behavioural approach to treating phobias
0  cards
4.5 The cognitive approach to explaining depression
0  cards
4.6 The cognitive approach to treating depression
0  cards
4.7 The biological approach to explaining OCD
Genetic explanations of ocd,
Neurological explanations of ocd,
What is meant by concordance rate...
9  cards
4.8 The biological approach to treating OCD
How do we treat ocd,
What is gaba,
What is noradrenaline
7  cards
5.1 The origins of Psychology
Define empiricism,
Define introspection,
Define scientific method
23  cards
5.2 The behaviourist approach
What approach does both skinner a...,
What was skinners rat experiment ...,
At first what happened if the rat...
31  cards
5.3 Social learning theory
What is social learning theory or...,
List three basic assumptions of s...,
When looking at social learning t...
15  cards
5.4 The cognitive approach
How did the cognitive approach co...,
Explain the purpose of the follow...,
Explain the idea behind the schem...
22  cards
5.5 The biological approach
Who what inspired the biological ...,
Explain the biological approach b...,
Define the term evolution
37  cards
5.6 The psychodynamic approach
List three basic assumptions of t...,
When looking at the psychodynamic...,
When looking at the psychodynamic...
31  cards
5.7 Humanistic psychology
What approach in psychology is ma...,
What are the five tiers of maslow...,
List some of the physiological ne...
23  cards
6.1 The nervous system
What 2 sections is the nervous sy...,
What 2 sections is the central ne...,
What is the function of the centr...
10  cards
6.2 Neurons and synaptic transmission
0  cards
6.3 Endocrine system
What do endocrine glands do,
What are hormones,
What part does the blood stream p...
13  cards
6.4 The fight-or-flight response
What is the purpose of the fight ...,
How are the amygdala and hypothal...,
What does the amygdala do
8  cards
6.5 Localisation of function
0  cards
6.6 Lateralisation and split-brain research
0  cards
6.7 Plasticity and functional recovery of the brain
0  cards
6.8 Ways of studying the brain
0  cards
6.9 Circadian rhythms
0  cards
6.10 Ultradian and infradian rhythms
0  cards
6.11 Endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers
0  cards

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