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Approaches in Psychology - Timeline
17th 19 century,
Psychology becomes distinct from ...,
When did freud establish the psyc...
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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 ...
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Approaches in Psychology - Psychology as a Science
Features of science f,
Features of science h,
Features of science p
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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 ...
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Approaches in Psychology - The Id, Ego and Superego
Freud s belief about the structur...,
What shapes the development of th...,
The id
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Approaches in Psychology - The Behaviourist Approach
Who founded the behaviourist appr...,
When was the behaviourist approac...,
What did the behaviourist approac...
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Approaches in Psychology - The Cognitive Approach
Schema,
How do cognitive psychologists st...,
What does the cognitive approach ...
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Approaches in Psychology - The Humanistic Approach
When and where did the humanistic...,
Why is the humanistic approach te...,
What are humanistic theories conc...
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Approaches in Psychology - Social Learning Theory
Who developed the slt,
What did bandura argue,
What was the slt concerned with
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Approaches in Psychology - The Biological Approach
What does the biological approach...,
What does biological psychology t...,
What does the approach investigat...
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Biopsychology - 1) The Nervous System
What is the nervous system,
What does the nervous system help...,
How is the nervous system divided
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Biopsychology - 2) The Endocrine System
What is the endocrine system sepa...,
What does the endocrine system wo...,
How does the endocrine system work
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Biopsychology - 3) Neurons and Synaptic Transmission
What do dendrites do,
What is the cell body,
What does
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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
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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
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Biopsychology - 6) Split-Brain Research into Hemispheric Lateralisation
Hemispheric lateralisation,
Which hemisphere controls which s...,
Lateralisation of emotion
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Biopsychology - 7) Ways of Studying the Brain
4 ways of studying the brain,
What type of method is a post mor...,
Post mortem examination
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Biopsychology - 8) Biological Rhythms: Circadian Rhythms, Endogenous Pacemakers and Exogenous Zeitgebers
Biological rhythm,
What are all biological rhythms r...,
Endogenous pacemakers
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Biopsychology - 9) Biological Rhythms: Infradian and Ultradian Rhythms
Infradian rhythm,
Example of an infradian rhythm,
Menstrual cycle
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Psychopathology - Introduction to Depression
What is depression,
What is mdd,
What is pdd
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Psychopathology - Cognitive Explanation for Depression
What is a schema,
What does beck believe about schemas,
How is a person with a negative s...
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Psychopathology - Cognitive Approach in Treating Depression
Cbt,
What does cognitive therapy aim t...,
What does cbt aim to help people ...
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Psychopathology - Introduction to OCD
Ocd,
What type of disorder is ocd,
What will someone with ocd experi...
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Psychopathology - Genetic Explanations for OCD
Concordance rate,
Neurotransmitter,
Gene
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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
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Psychopathology - Drug Therapy for OCD
Ssris,
What do ssris prevent,
The more the serotonin in the syn...
18
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Psychopathology - Introduction to Phobias
What are phobias,
What type of disorder is a phobia,
Dsm 5 definition of phobia
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Psychopathology - Behaviourist Explanation of Phobias
What does the two process model e...,
What are phobias acquired and mai...,
What did watson and rayner discover
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Psychopathology - Treatments for Phobias
What is systemic desensitisation,
What does systemic desensitisatio...,
What is systemic desensitisation ...
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Psychopathology - Defining Abnormality
Dsn,
Dsn def,
What are behaviours of dsn based on
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Research Methods
What is an aim,
What is a one tailed hypothesis a...,
What is a one tailed hypothesis
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Attachment - Caregiver-Infant Interactions in Humans
Attachment,
What long does an attachment take...,
Proximity
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Attachment - Stages of Attachment (Key Research)
Who conducted this key piece of r...,
Aim,
How was this study a longitudinal...
30
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Attachment - The Role of the Father
From schaffer and emerson s study...,
Expectation of fathers in modern ...,
Why do father have a more active ...
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Attachment - Animal Studies
What are animal studies used to l...,
Why can animal studies help us un...,
Who is lorenz
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Attachment - Explanations: Learning Theory
What do dollard and miller believ...,
What is all behaviour including a...,
What do learning theories of atta...
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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
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Attachments - Strange Situation by Ainsworth
Full procedure of ainsworth study...,
Research method used by ainsworth,
How were the infants and their mo...
41
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Attachment - Cultural Variations in Attachment
Culture,
What are present in western socie...,
What may members of different cul...
25
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Attachment - Bowlby’s Theory of Maternal Deprivation
Who,
When did the who commission bowlb...,
What did the who commission bowlb...
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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Memory - The Working Memory Model
Wmm,
What memory store is the wmm excl...,
What does the wmm show about the ...
56
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Memory - Explanations for Forgetting
What does the msm state,
Interference,
What may interference result in
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Memory - Factors Affecting Accuracy Of EWT
Ewt,
What type of discussion is ewt,
Post event discussion
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Memory - The Cognitive Interview (Improving EWT)
Ci,
Aim of ci,
What is the ci based on
46
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Social Influence - Types of Conformity
Conformity,
Real pressure example,
Imagined pressure example
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Social Influence - Explanations for Conformity
Who identified two main reasons f...,
Why do individuals conform accord...,
What theory did deutsch and gerar...
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Social Influence - Conformity to Social Roles
Social role,
What are the expected behaviours ...,
Example of social roles
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Social Influence - Obedience to Authority
Obedience,
In what trials was obedience used...,
Who stated that they were just ob...
43
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Social Influence - Situational Factors and Explanations for Obedience to Authority
Situational factor,
Oppose of a situational factor,
Why did milgrim carry out multipl...
28
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Social Influence - Dispositional Explanations: The Authoritarian Personaility
Situational explanations for obed...,
Dispositional explanations for ob...,
Authoritarian personality
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Social Influence - Resisting Socal Influence
Who established two types of resi...,
What was rotter s concept of cont...,
Locus of control
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Social Influence - Minority Influence
Minority influence,
Belief system of someone who join...,
3 factors which enhance the effec...
43
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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
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The Statistics Test - The Sign Test
Hypothesis,
Null hypothesis,
Statistical testing
36
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The Stats Test - Probability and Significance
Three types of data,
Ordinal data,
Example of ordinal data
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The Stats Test - Anagrams
Cip,
Candi,
Unitd
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Issues and Debates - Gender Bias
Gender bias def,
Example of gender bias,
Universality
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Issues and Debates - Cultural Bias
Cultural bias definition,
Cultural bias example attachment,
Universality
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Issues and Debates - Nature vs Nurture
Nature debate,
What are behaviour traits accordi...,
Nurture debate
11
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Issues and Debates - Idiographic vs Nomothetic
Idiographic,
Nomothetic,
What methods are used under the n...
14
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Issues and Debates - Holism vs Reductionism
Reductionism,
Reductionist approach to studying...,
Positive of taking a reductionist...
26
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Issues and Debates - Free Will vs Determinism
Determinism,
Free will,
4 types of determinism
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Issues and Debates - Ethical Implications
What are ethical guidelines,
What are ethical issues,
What are ethical implications
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Forensic Psychology - 1. Offender Profiling: The Top-Down Approach
Profiling,
What latin word do offender have ...,
What assumptions to profilers make
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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
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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
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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...
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Forensic Psychology - 5. Biological Explanations: 3. Neural Explanations
What does the neural explanation ...,
Example of how differences in neu...,
Which psychology is associated wi...
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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
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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
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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...
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Forensic Psychology - 9. Psychological Explanations: 4. Differential Associations
Dat,
According to the dat how do peopl...,
What will a criminal family or de...
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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 ...
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Forensic Psychology - 11. Dealing with Offending Behaviour: 1. Custodial Sentencing
Custodial sentencing,
What is the official capacity of ...,
4 aims of custodial sentencing
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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
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Stress - 1. The Philosophy of Stress
Stress,
When does stress arise,
What may the demands require of t...
30
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Stress - 2. The Role of Stress in Illness
Two illnesses mentioned in the sp...,
Immunosuppression,
What is the immune system respons...
28
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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...
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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
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Stress - 5. Measuring Stress
Ways of measuring stress,
Who developed srrs,
Srrs negative evaluation validity
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Stress - 6. Individual Differences in Stress
3 types of personality,
Personality type a,
Why are personality type a indivi...
27
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Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 1. Benzodiazepines and Beta-blockers
Bzs,
What do bzs do,
Link between serotonin and stress
15
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Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 2. Biofeedback
What is biofeedback,
4 functions of biofeedback,
How does biofeedback allow you to...
12
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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
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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...
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Stress - 7. Managing and Coping with Stress: 5. Social Support
3 types of social support,
Instrumental social support,
Emotional social support
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Relationships - 1. The Evolutionary Explanation for Partner Preferences
Darwin s theory of evolution,
Sexual selection,
Characteristics that females are ...
22
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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Relationships - 4. Virtual Relationships in Social Media: 2. Effects of Absence of Gating on Virtual Relationships
Ftf relationship,
Cmc relationship,
Gate
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Relationships - 5. Parasocial Relationships: 1. Levels of parasocial relationships
Parasocial relationship,
Example of a parasocial relationship,
Psr
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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
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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...
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Approaches - Comparisons
Word to base all approaches on,
Sardine,
Behavioural approach scientific
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