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Decks in this class (104)

Attachment: Shaffers stages of attachment
What are the four stages of attac...,
What is asocial 2,
What is indiscriminate 3
9  cards
Attachment: role of the father
What was grossmans theory 1,
What s the percentage of cases wh...,
What was the sample of grossmans ...
6  cards
Attachment: explanations of attachment -learning theory
What does the learning theory sta...,
Who came up with this theory 2,
What did dollard and miller say a...
5  cards
Attachment: caregiver and infant interactions
What is caregiver infant interact...,
What does the research say about ...,
What are the types of interactions 3
9  cards
Attachment: animal studies
What was the aim of lorenz study 1,
What was the sample of lorenz stu...,
What was the procedure of lorenz ...
12  cards
Attachment: Bowlbys monotropic theory
What does bowlbys theory state 1,
What is meant by social releasers 2,
What is meant by a critical period 3
7  cards
Attachment: Mary ainsworth strange situation
What was the aim of mary ainswort...,
What was the sample of the study 2,
What type of scenarios are record...
7  cards
Attachment: cross cultural variations
What did vjzanizendoorms and kroo...,
What was the sample of the study 2,
What did they find 3
5  cards
Attachment: bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation
What is maternal deprivation 1,
What does the theory state 2,
What happens if infants are depri...
8  cards
Attachment: Romanian orphan studies
Who conducted the study 1,
What was the aim of the study 2,
What was the sample 3
6  cards
Attachment: influence of early attachment on later relationships
What does the internal working mo...,
What does the internal working mo...,
What did hazans and shavers study...
5  cards
Memory: multistore model of memory
Who created the multistore model 1,
What is the sensory memory 2,
What is the long term memory 3
6  cards
Memory: working memory model
What does the working memory mode...,
What is the central executive 2,
What is the visuospatial sketchpad 3
7  cards
Memory: types of LTM
What are the different types of l...,
What is the episodic ltm 2,
What is the semantic ltm 3
8  cards
Memory: interference theory
What is the interference theory 1,
What are the different types of i...,
What is retroactive interference 3
6  cards
Memory: retrieval failure
What is retrieval failure 1,
What do cues do 2,
What is the encoding specificity ...
7  cards
Memory: eyewitness testimony (leading questions)
Who conducted the study 1,
What was the aim for study 1 2,
What was the sample for the study 3
10  cards
Memory: eyewitness testimony (post event discussion)
Who conducted the study 1,
What was the aim of the study 2,
What was the sample of the study 3
7  cards
Memory: eyewitness testimony (anxiety)
Who conducted the study 1,
What was the aim of the study 2,
What was the sample of the study 3
11  cards
Memory: cognitive interview
Who founded the cognitive intervi...,
What did fisher and geislman aim ...,
What does the cognitive interview...
12  cards
Social influence: types of conformity
What is internalism 1,
Is internalism permanent or non p...,
What is compliance 3
8  cards
Social influence: explanations of conformity
What are the two types of explana...,
What does normative social influe...,
What supports normative explanati...
7  cards
Social influence : key studies (asch)
What was the aim of asch s study 1,
What was the sample of asch s stu...,
What was the procedure of asch s ...
8  cards
Social influence: key studies (zimbardo)
What was the aim of zimbardos stu...,
What was the sample of zimbardos ...,
What was the procedure of zimbard...
7  cards
Social influence: explanations for obedience
What are two types of explanation...,
What is a type of situational exp...,
What is legitimacy of authority 3
12  cards
Social influence: key studies (milgram)
What was the aim of milgrams study 1,
What was the sample of milgrams s...,
What was the procedure of milgram...
6  cards
Social influence: resistance to social influence
What are the two types of resista...,
What is social support 2,
What research supports social sup...
8  cards
Social influence: minority influence
What are the 3 minority influence...,
What is consistency 2,
What is commitment 3
19  cards
Social influence: social change
What is social change 1,
What is social crypto amnesia 2,
What must happen for social chang...
5  cards
Psychopathology: definitions of abnormality
Explain this definition of abnorm...,
Explain this definition of abnorm...,
Explain this definition of abnorm...
12  cards
Psychopathology: characteristics of phobias, depression and ocd
What are the behaviours character...,
What are the emotional characteri...,
What are the cognitive characteri...
9  cards
Psychopathology: behavioural explanations for phobias
What did the two process model st...,
Who created the two process model 2,
What was the key study that suppo...
9  cards
Psychopathology: behavioural treatments for phobias
What are the two types of treatme...,
What does systematic desensitisat...,
What is learnt through systematic...
9  cards
Psychopathology: biological explanation to ocd
What are the two types of biologi...,
What does it mean by genetics as ...,
What are some examples of genes f...
10  cards
Psychopathology: biological treatments to OCD
What is a biological treatment fo...,
What does drug therapy involve 2,
Can you combine ssri s and cbt 3
5  cards
Psychopathology: cognitive explanations for depression
Which two people came up with exp...,
What did beck come up with 2,
What is a negative self schema 3
10  cards
Psychopathology: cognitive treatment for depression
What did becks explanation involv...,
What was ellis s explanation call...,
What did ellis s explanation invo...
10  cards
Research methods: aims and hypotheses
What is an aim 1,
What is an alternative hypotheses 2,
What is a null hypothesis 3
6  cards
Research methods: variables and controls
What is an independent variable 1,
What is an independent variable 2,
What is a control variable 3
7  cards
Research methods: methods of controlling variables
What is random allocation 1,
What does random allocation contr...,
What is counterbalancing 3
7  cards
Research methods: factors effecting validity
What are the two factors that eff...,
What is validity 1,
What is investigator effects 2
4  cards
Research methods: carrying out research
What is a consent form 1,
When is a consent form given to t...,
What should a consent form include 3
12  cards
Research methods: experimental designs
What is a lab experiment 1,
What is a strength to a lab exper...,
What is a negative to a lab exper...
12  cards
Issues and debates: gender bias
What is gender bias 1,
What are the two different types ...,
What is alpha bias 3
14  cards
Issues and debates: culture bias
What is culture bias 1,
What does culture bias believe 2,
What is ethnocentrism 3
15  cards
Issues and debates: free will and determinism
What is the definition free will 1,
What is the definition of determi...,
What are the two types of determi...
15  cards
Issues and debates: nature and nurture
What is nature 1,
What is nurture 2,
What is an interactionist approach 3
9  cards
Issues and debates: holism and reductionism
What is reductionism 1,
What are the 3 levels of explanat...,
What are the 2 types of reduction...
16  cards
Issues and debates: idiographic and nomothetic
What is nomothetic 1,
What are the strengths to using a...,
How does a nomothetic approach co...
6  cards
Issues and debates: ethical implications of research and theory
What is meant by ethical implicat...,
What is socially sensitive resear...,
Who identified four problematic a...
16  cards
Biospychology: nervous system
What is the nervous system 1,
What is the nervous system based ...,
What does the nervous system do 3
14  cards
Biopsychology: structure and function of neurons
What are the 3 types of neurons 1,
What is the structure of the sens...,
What is the function of a sensory...
8  cards
Biopsychology: synaptic transmission
What is synaptic transmission 1,
What are neurotransmitters 2,
What is the process of synaptic t...
7  cards
Biopsychology: endocrine system
What is the endocrine system 1,
What does the endocrine system do 2,
How do the hormones travel throug...
6  cards
Biopsychology: fight or flight response
What is the fight or flight respo...,
How does the fight or flight resp...,
What and why are some of the targ...
3  cards
Biopsychology: ways of studying the brain
What are the 4 ways to study the ...,
What is an fmri 2,
What does an fmri do 3
19  cards
Biopsychology: localisation of functions (case study evaluation)
What is the localisation of funct...,
What case studies support the loc...,
What was the case study of tan 3
10  cards
Biopsychology: localisation of function (brain scan evaluation)
Who conducted brain scans in 1988 1,
What did peterson et al do 2
2  cards
Biopsychology: localisation of function (neurosurgery evaluation)
What does neurosurgery involve 1,
Who developed neurosurgery as a w...,
When did walter freeman develop n...
6  cards
Biopsychology: hemispheric lateralisation
What is hemispheric lateralisation 1,
What does contralateral mean 2,
What does ipsilateral mean 3
4  cards
Biopsychology: hemispheric lateralisation (brain scan evaluation)
Who conducted brain scans in evid...,
What did fime et al 1996 do 2,
What did fime et al 1996 pet scan...
7  cards
Biopsychology: hemispheric lateralisation (split brain research)
What does split brain involve 1,
What does split brain mean for pa...,
Who conducted the research on spl...
12  cards
Biopsychology: brain plasticity
What is brain plasticity 1,
What are the two types of brain p...,
What is structural brain plastici...
12  cards
Biopsychology: functional recovery
What is functional recovery an ex...,
What is meant by functional recov...,
How long can functional recovery ...
10  cards
Biopsychology: biological rhythms -circadian rhythms
What is a biological rhythm 1,
What is a circadian rhythm 2,
What is an example of a circadian...
21  cards
Biopsychology: biological rhythms -ultradian rhythms
What is a biological rhythm 1,
What is a ultradian rhythm 2,
What is an example of a ultradian...
20  cards
Biopsychology: biological rhythms -infradian
What is a biological rhythm 1,
What is an infradian rhythm 2,
What is an example of an infradia...
5  cards
Biopsychology: endogenous pacemakers
What is an endogenous pacemaker 1,
What is an example of an endogeno...,
What is the scn 3
13  cards
Biopsychology: exogenous zeitgebers
What is an exogenous zeitgeber 1,
What is an example of an exogenou...,
How does light work as an exogeno...
6  cards
Forensic psychology: offender profiling
What is offender profiling 1,
Who created the offender profilin...,
Why is offender profiling useful 3
4  cards
Forensic psychology: top down approach
What is the top down approach 1,
Who developed the top down approa...,
When was the top down approach de...
12  cards
Forensic psychology: bottom up approach
What is the bottom up approach 1,
Who came up with the bottom up ap...,
What kind of data does the bottom...
14  cards
Forensic psychology: biological explanation -atavistic
Who came up with the atavistic fo...,
What did lombrosso believe 2,
What 3 types of criminals did he ...
8  cards
Forensic psychology: biological explanation (genetic)
How are genetics used to explain ...,
Who conducted research that suppo...,
What did johannes lange do 1930 do 3
20  cards
Forensic psychology: biological explanation (neural)
What is meant by a neural explana...,
What are the 3 factors that suppo...,
What is meant by apd 3
14  cards
Forensic psychology: psychological explanation (eyesnecks theory)
What did eyseneck do 1,
What did eyseneck believe 2,
What were the 3 personality varia...
8  cards
Forensic psychology: psychological explanation (cognitive explanations)
What are the 2 types of cognitive...,
What is kohlbergs levels of moral...,
What are the 3 stages 3
18  cards
forensic psychology: psychological explanation (DAT)
What is meant by dat 1,
Who created the differential asso...,
When did edward sutherland come u...
16  cards
forensic psychology: psychological explanation (psychodynamic)
What does the psychodynamic expla...,
Which stage is the superego formed 2,
How is the superego formed 3
23  cards
forensic psychology: ways of dealing with offenders -prison
What is meant by custodial senten...,
What is meant by recidivism 2,
How many aims are there to custod...
19  cards
forensic psychology: ways of dealing with offender- behaviour modification
What is the main process involved...,
What is the idea involved with be...,
What is behaviour modification ba...
17  cards
forensic psychology: ways of dealing with offenders -anger management
Who came up with theory of using ...,
What did novaco 1975 do say 2,
How does anger management work as...
18  cards
forensic psychology: ways of dealing with offenders -restorative justice
What does restorative justice foc...,
How are the offenders rehabilitat...,
What does restorative justice abl...
13  cards
approaches -origin of psychology
Who was involved in the origin of...,
What was wundt known as 2,
What did wundt do 3
9  cards
approaches -the learning approach (behaviourism)
What is the learning approach con...,
What is classical conditioning 2,
Who conducted the study into rese...
14  cards
approaches -the learning approach (social learning theory)
What is the social learning theory 1,
How many processes are involved i...,
What are the 4 processes involved...
18  cards
approaches -cognitive approach
What is the cognitive approach ba...,
How are the internal mental proce...,
What does the cognitive approach ...
13  cards
approaches -biological approach
What is the main concept behind t...,
How do genes play a role in the b...,
How are genes researched 3
9  cards
approaches -psychodynamic approach
What is the psychodynamic approac...,
What is the unconscious 2,
What is the tripartite structure ...
13  cards
approaches -humanistic psychology
What is the humanistic approach b...,
What does the humanistic approach...,
What is maslow s hierarchy of nee...
9  cards
schizophrenia -diagnosis and classification
Is there a single defining charac...,
How does classification differ 2,
What are the 2 classification sys...
16  cards
schizophrenia -biological explanations for SZ
What does the genetic explanation...,
How can a genetic predisposition ...,
What are candidate genes 3
7  cards
schizophrenia -biological explanation of SZ (neural)
What is meant by neural correlates 1,
What is the dopamine hypothesis 2,
What are the 2 types of dopamine ...
9  cards
schizophrenia -biological treatments (drug therapies)
What is the most common treatment...,
How do antipsychotics work 2,
How do dopamine antagonists work 3
15  cards
schizophrenia -psychological explanations for SZ (family dysfunction)
How is family dysfunction used to...,
What does family dysfunction say ...,
How many types of family dysfunct...
15  cards
schizophrenia -cognitive explanations
What is the cognitive explanation...,
What is schizophrenia associated ...,
Who came up with the dysfunctions...
12  cards
schizophrenia -psychological treatments (CBT)
What is cbt 1,
What is the basic assumption of c...,
What does cbt involve 3
11  cards
schizophrenia -psychological explanations (family therapy)
What is the aim of family therapy 1,
What is involved in the process o...,
What does family therapy do 3
9  cards
schizophrenia - psychological treatments of SZ (token economies)
What is meant by a token economy 1,
What is a token economy based on 2,
Why is the token economy treatmen...
8  cards
schizophrenia -interactionist approach to SZ
What is the interactionist approa...,
What are the two types of interac...,
Who came up with the traditional ...
5  cards
schizophrenia -treatments according to the interactionist approach
What does the interactionist trea...,
Blank 2,
What does the interactionist appr...
6  cards
cognition and development -piaget theory
What did piaget see children as b...,
What did piaget believe about how...,
What did piaget believe the adult...
20  cards
cognition and development -piagets stages
How many piagets developmental st...,
What are piagets 4 developmental ...,
What is involved in stage 1 senso...
17  cards
cognition and development -vygotskys theory
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