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Approaches in Psychology - Timeline
17th 19 century,
Psychology becomes distinct from ...,
When did freud establish the psyc...
9  cards
Approaches in Psychology - William Wundt and Introspection
Who was the first person to be ca...,
What were wundt s aims,
What book did wilhelm publish in ...
12  cards
Approaches in Psychology - Psychology as a Science
Features of science f,
Features of science h,
Features of science p
8  cards
Approaches in Psychology - Sigmund Freud and the Psychodynamic Approach
According to freud how many level...,
What is the conscious level,
What does the preconscious level ...
18  cards
Approaches in Psychology - The Id, Ego and Superego
Freud s belief about the structur...,
What shapes the development of th...,
The id
50  cards
Approaches in Psychology - The Behaviourist Approach
Who founded the behaviourist appr...,
When was the behaviourist approac...,
What did the behaviourist approac...
38  cards
Approaches in Psychology - The Cognitive Approach
Schema,
How do cognitive psychologists st...,
What does the cognitive approach ...
26  cards
Approaches in Psychology - The Humanistic Approach
When and where did the humanistic...,
Why is the humanistic approach te...,
What are humanistic theories conc...
55  cards
Approaches in Psychology - Social Learning Theory
Who developed the slt,
What did bandura argue,
What was the slt concerned with
27  cards
Approaches in Psychology - The Biological Approach
What does the biological approach...,
What does biological psychology t...,
What does the approach investigat...
35  cards
Biopsychology - 1) The Nervous System
What is the nervous system,
What does the nervous system help...,
How is the nervous system divided
49  cards
Biopsychology - 2) The Endocrine System
What is the endocrine system sepa...,
What does the endocrine system wo...,
How does the endocrine system work
22  cards
Biopsychology - 3) Neurons and Synaptic Transmission
What do dendrites do,
What is the cell body,
What does
27  cards
Biopsychology - 4) Localisation of Function in the Brain
In what part of the brain is the ...,
Role of the motor area,
Result of damage to motor area
24  cards
Biopsychology - 5) Plasticity and Functional Recovery of the Brain after Trauma
Plasticity,
Who carried out the study into pl...,
Who was maguire et al s study into
15  cards
Biopsychology - 6) Split-Brain Research into Hemispheric Lateralisation
Hemispheric lateralisation,
Which hemisphere controls which s...,
Lateralisation of emotion
15  cards
Biopsychology - 7) Ways of Studying the Brain
4 ways of studying the brain,
What type of method is a post mor...,
Post mortem examination
20  cards
Biopsychology - 8) Biological Rhythms: Circadian Rhythms, Endogenous Pacemakers and Exogenous Zeitgebers
Biological rhythm,
What are all biological rhythms r...,
Endogenous pacemakers
16  cards
Biopsychology - 9) Biological Rhythms: Infradian and Ultradian Rhythms
Infradian rhythm,
Example of an infradian rhythm,
Menstrual cycle
29  cards
Psychopathology - Introduction to Depression
What is depression,
What is mdd,
What is pdd
16  cards
Psychopathology - Cognitive Explanation for Depression
What is a schema,
What does beck believe about schemas,
How is a person with a negative s...
26  cards
Psychopathology - Cognitive Approach in Treating Depression
Cbt,
What does cognitive therapy aim t...,
What does cbt aim to help people ...
22  cards
Psychopathology - Introduction to OCD
Ocd,
What type of disorder is ocd,
What will someone with ocd experi...
12  cards
Psychopathology - Genetic Explanations for OCD
Concordance rate,
Neurotransmitter,
Gene
29  cards
Psychopathology - Neural Explanation for OCD
What are the lateral side parts o...,
What is abnormal functioning or d...,
What are some cases of ocd linked to
16  cards
Psychopathology - Drug Therapy for OCD
Ssris,
What do ssris prevent,
The more the serotonin in the syn...
18  cards
Psychopathology - Introduction to Phobias
What are phobias,
What type of disorder is a phobia,
Dsm 5 definition of phobia
13  cards
Psychopathology - Behaviourist Explanation of Phobias
What does the two process model e...,
What are phobias acquired and mai...,
What did watson and rayner discover
13  cards
Psychopathology - Treatments for Phobias
What is systemic desensitisation,
What does systemic desensitisatio...,
What is systemic desensitisation ...
19  cards
Psychopathology - Defining Abnormality
Dsn,
Dsn def,
What are behaviours of dsn based on
36  cards
Research Methods
What is an aim,
What is a one tailed hypothesis a...,
What is a one tailed hypothesis
110  cards
Attachment - Caregiver-Infant Interactions in Humans
Attachment,
What long does an attachment take...,
Proximity
22  cards
Attachment - Stages of Attachment (Key Research)
Who conducted this key piece of r...,
Aim,
How was this study a longitudinal...
30  cards
Attachment - The Role of the Father
From schaffer and emerson s study...,
Expectation of fathers in modern ...,
Why do father have a more active ...
23  cards
Attachment - Animal Studies
What are animal studies used to l...,
Why can animal studies help us un...,
Who is lorenz
43  cards
Attachment - Explanations: Learning Theory
What do dollard and miller believ...,
What is all behaviour including a...,
What do learning theories of atta...
17  cards
Attachment - Explanations: Bowlby’s Monotropic Theory
What is evolution,
How can a feature be termed as us...,
What do animals need to be to sur...
32  cards
Attachments - Strange Situation by Ainsworth
Full procedure of ainsworth study...,
Research method used by ainsworth,
How were the infants and their mo...
41  cards
Attachment - Cultural Variations in Attachment
Culture,
What are present in western socie...,
What may members of different cul...
25  cards
Attachment - Bowlby’s Theory of Maternal Deprivation
Who,
When did the who commission bowlb...,
What did the who commission bowlb...
49  cards
Attachment - Romanian Orphan Studies
When did romania s orphan problem...,
What did many romanian s do as a ...,
What did the western world become...
30  cards
Attachment - Influence of Early Attachment on Childhood and Adult Relationships
What is the internal working model,
When do we form our internal work...,
What is the internal working mode...
24  cards
Memory - The Multi-Store Model of Memory
When was the multi store model of...,
What was the multi store model th...,
How many different memory stores ...
97  cards
Memory - The Types of LTM
Who proposed the idea that there ...,
When were the three types of ltm ...,
What did tulving believe about th...
25  cards
Memory - The Working Memory Model
Wmm,
What memory store is the wmm excl...,
What does the wmm show about the ...
56  cards
Memory - Explanations for Forgetting
What does the msm state,
Interference,
What may interference result in
74  cards
Memory - Factors Affecting Accuracy Of EWT
Ewt,
What type of discussion is ewt,
Post event discussion
70  cards
Memory - The Cognitive Interview (Improving EWT)
Ci,
Aim of ci,
What is the ci based on
46  cards
Social Influence - Types of Conformity
Conformity,
Real pressure example,
Imagined pressure example
23  cards
Social Influence - Explanations for Conformity
Who identified two main reasons f...,
Why do individuals conform accord...,
What theory did deutsch and gerar...
68  cards
Social Influence - Conformity to Social Roles
Social role,
What are the expected behaviours ...,
Example of social roles
36  cards
Social Influence - Obedience to Authority
Obedience,
In what trials was obedience used...,
Who stated that they were just ob...
43  cards
Social Influence - Situational Factors and Explanations for Obedience to Authority
Situational factor,
Oppose of a situational factor,
Why did milgrim carry out multipl...
28  cards
Social Influence - Dispositional Explanations: The Authoritarian Personaility
Situational explanations for obed...,
Dispositional explanations for ob...,
Authoritarian personality
24  cards
Social Influence - Resisting Socal Influence
Who established two types of resi...,
What was rotter s concept of cont...,
Locus of control
29  cards
Social Influence - Minority Influence
Minority influence,
Belief system of someone who join...,
3 factors which enhance the effec...
43  cards
Research Methods - The Role of Peer Review in the Scientific Process
What is a peer review,
The write of up of research is what,
What would a research hope to hav...
20  cards
The Statistics Test - The Sign Test
Hypothesis,
Null hypothesis,
Statistical testing
36  cards
The Stats Test - Probability and Significance
Three types of data,
Ordinal data,
Example of ordinal data
84  cards
The Stats Test - Anagrams
Cip,
Candi,
Unitd
16  cards
Issues and Debates - Gender Bias
Gender bias def,
Example of gender bias,
Universality
10  cards
Issues and Debates - Cultural Bias
Cultural bias definition,
Cultural bias example attachment,
Universality
12  cards
Issues and Debates - Nature vs Nurture
Nature debate,
What are behaviour traits accordi...,
Nurture debate
11  cards
Issues and Debates - Idiographic vs Nomothetic
Idiographic,
Nomothetic,
What methods are used under the n...
14  cards
Issues and Debates - Holism vs Reductionism
Reductionism,
Reductionist approach to studying...,
Positive of taking a reductionist...
26  cards
Issues and Debates - Free Will vs Determinism
Determinism,
Free will,
4 types of determinism
16  cards
Issues and Debates - Ethical Implications
What are ethical guidelines,
What are ethical issues,
What are ethical implications
6  cards
Forensic Psychology - 1. Offender Profiling: The Top-Down Approach
Profiling,
What latin word do offender have ...,
What assumptions to profilers make
31  cards
Forensic Psychology - 2. Offender Profiling: The Bottom-Up Approach
What does the bottom up approach ...,
Why is the bottom up approach obj...,
Where does the bottom up approach...
23  cards
Forensic Psychology - 3. Biological Explanations for Crime: 1. Historic Approach
What is the main historical biolo...,
Are historic approaches still see...,
Why is the atavistic form in the ...
26  cards
Forensic Psychology - 4. Biological Explanations: 2. Genetic Explanations
What do genetic explanations propose,
What is the main gene involved in...,
What do some people have which me...
29  cards
Forensic Psychology - 5. Biological Explanations: 3. Neural Explanations
What does the neural explanation ...,
Example of how differences in neu...,
Which psychology is associated wi...
16  cards
Forensic Psychology - 6. Psychological Explanations: 1. Eysenck's Criminal Personality
Factors of our personality accord...,
How is our personality genetic,
Was eysenck s theory of personali...
35  cards
Forensic Psychology - 7. Psychological Explanations: 2. Cognitive Explanations
3 things that the cognitive appro...,
Babies concept of right and wrong,
What happens to our morals as we age
30  cards
Forensic Psychology - 8. Psychological Explanations: 3. Cognitive Distortions
What are cognitive distortions ac...,
What do offenders do due to cogni...,
What do cognitive distortions all...
24  cards
Forensic Psychology - 9. Psychological Explanations: 4. Differential Associations
Dat,
According to the dat how do peopl...,
What will a criminal family or de...
26  cards
Forensic Psychology - 10. Psychological Explanations: 5. Psychodynamic Approach
What are the three parts of our p...,
What principle does each part of ...,
What is the rational part of the ...
24  cards
Forensic Psychology - 11. Dealing with Offending Behaviour: 1. Custodial Sentencing
Custodial sentencing,
What is the official capacity of ...,
4 aims of custodial sentencing
30  cards
Forensic Psychology - 12. Dealing with Offending Behaviour: 2. Behaviour Modification and Anger Management
3 types of behaviour modification,
Token economy,
What is the token economy based on
45  cards
Stress - 1. The Philosophy of Stress
Stress,
When does stress arise,
What may the demands require of t...
30  cards
Stress - 2. The Role of Stress in Illness
Two illnesses mentioned in the sp...,
Immunosuppression,
What is the immune system respons...
28  cards
Stress - 3. Sources of Stress: 1. Daily Uplifts, Daily Hassles and Life Changing Events
Examples of life changing events ...,
What are life changes life changi...,
Who developed the social readjust...
22  cards
Stress - 4. Sources of Stress: 2. Workplace Stress
What is the demand control model ...,
Who carried out key research into...,
Sample of johansson et al s resea...
16  cards
Stress - 5. Measuring Stress
Ways of measuring stress,
Who developed srrs,
Srrs negative evaluation validity
28  cards
Stress - 6. Individual Differences in Stress
3 types of personality,
Personality type a,
Why are personality type a indivi...
27  cards
Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 1. Benzodiazepines and Beta-blockers
Bzs,
What do bzs do,
Link between serotonin and stress
15  cards
Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 2. Biofeedback
What is biofeedback,
4 functions of biofeedback,
How does biofeedback allow you to...
12  cards
Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 3. Stress Inoculation Therapy
Sit,
What is sit a form of,
What do cbt therapists believe ab...
15  cards
Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 4. Gender Differences
Why does taylor believe there are...,
Difference in response to stress ...,
Key reason for gender differences...
10  cards
Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 5. Social Support
3 types of social support,
Instrumental social support,
Emotional social support
7  cards
Relationships - 1. The Evolutionary Explanation for Partner Preferences
Darwin s theory of evolution,
Sexual selection,
Characteristics that females are ...
22  cards
Relationship - 2. Factors Affecting Attraction in Romantic Relationships: 1. Self-Disclosure
What is the first factor affectin...,
What is relationship formation ba...,
How is trust with another person ...
20  cards
Relationships - 2. Factors Affecting Attraction in Romantic Relationships: 2. Physical Attractiveness
What effect is related to physica...,
What does the halo effect state,
Research into the halo effect
11  cards
Relationships - 2. Factors Affecting Attraction in Romantic Relationships: 3. Filter Theory
Who developed the filter theory a...,
What is the filter theory based on,
How many stages are there in the ...
17  cards
Relationships - 3. Theories of Romantic Relationships: 1. Social Exchange Theory
Who developed the social exchange...,
Shortened version of social excha...,
What type of theory is the social...
34  cards
Relationships - 3. Theories of Romantic Relationships: 2. Equity Theory
How does the equity theory differ...,
What does inequity cause individu...,
What is the important factor to t...
11  cards
Relationships - 3. Theories of Romantic Relationships: 3. Investment Model
Who created the investment model ...,
Rusbult s criticism of the set,
What leads to high satisfaction i...
17  cards
Relationship - 3. Theories of Romantic Relationships: 4. Reasons for Relationship Breakdown (Duck 1992)
What did duck produce in 1992,
Phase model,
What marks each phase of the rela...
21  cards
Relationships - 4. Virtual Relationships in Social Media: 1. Self-disclosure
2 parts of self disclosure in vir...,
Who developed the reduced cues th...,
What does the reduced cues theory...
14  cards
Relationships - 4. Virtual Relationships in Social Media: 2. Effects of Absence of Gating on Virtual Relationships
Ftf relationship,
Cmc relationship,
Gate
9  cards
Relationships - 5. Parasocial Relationships: 1. Levels of parasocial relationships
Parasocial relationship,
Example of a parasocial relationship,
Psr
13  cards
Relationships - 5. Parasocial Relationships: 2. Absorption Addiction Model
Who proposed the absorption addic...,
Purpose of the absorption addicti...,
What can psrs be used to make up for
6  cards
Relationship - 5. Parasocial Relationships: 3. Attachment Theory
Which attachment style is most li...,
Why are insecure resistant s most...,
Which attachment style is least l...
7  cards
Approaches - Comparisons
Word to base all approaches on,
Sardine,
Behavioural approach scientific
46  cards

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