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lesson 5 aims, hypotheses and pilot studies research methods
Define aim 1,
What should the aim include 2,
Define hypothesis 3
17  cards
lesson 6 sampling techniques research methods
Define target population 1,
What should a sample be 2,
What is random sampling 3
17  cards
lesson 7 experimental design research methods
Define experimental design 1,
What are the three types of exper...,
What are independent groups 3
14  cards
lesson 8 control of extraneous variables research methods
Difference between extraneous and...,
What are participant variables 2,
How do we solve participant varia...
9  cards
lesson 9 ethics research methods
What do all researchers have to f...,
What are the rules researchers ha...,
What is informed consent 3
10  cards
lesson 10 peer review research methods
What do peer reviews aim to do 1,
What do peer reviews involve 2,
What do the other psychologists c...
11  cards
lesson 11 psychology and the economy research methods
Define the economy 1,
What are the ways that psychology...,
What does research into social in...
6  cards
lesson 7 Ainsworth's strange situation attachments
How is type of attachment tested 1,
What does the strange situation t...,
Who does the strange situation te...
32  cards
lesson 8 influence of early attachment on later relationships attachments
What is an internal working model 1,
Short term consequence of interna...,
Long term consequence of internal...
19  cards
lesson 9 cultural variations in attachments
Define culture 1,
What is an individualistic culture 2,
What is a collectivist culture 3
10  cards
lesson 10 Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation attachments
What is the maternal deprivation ...,
What is maternal deprivation 2,
What is separation 3
10  cards
lesson 11 romanian orphan studies: effects of institutionalisation attachments
What is institutionalisation 1,
What are the two negative consequ...,
What was found out about romanian...
10  cards
Lesson 1 the nervous system biopsych
What is the nervous system divide...,
What is the central nervous syste...,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...
13  cards
Lesson 2 neurons biopsych
What do neurons enable 1,
What does the cell body do 2,
What did dendrites do 3
21  cards
Lesson 3 synaptic transmission biopsych
What do neurons transmit 1,
Where do neurons transmit electri...,
What happens when the action pote...
17  cards
Lesson 4 endocrine system biopsych
What does the endocrine system do 1,
What do endocrine glands do 2,
Blank 3
18  cards
Lesson 5 fight or flight response biopsych
What is the fight or flight respo...,
What stimulates the sympathetic n...,
What stimulates the adrenal medul...
7  cards
Lesson 6: localisation of function biopsych
Define localisation of function 1,
Define contralateral organisation 2,
What does the left hemisphere of ...
17  cards
Lesson 7 hemispheric lateralisation biopsych
Define hemispheric lateralisation 1,
Where are language centress later...,
What is the broca s area responsi...
11  cards
Lesson 8 split-brain research biopsych
Why did surgeons cut the corpus c...,
Where does information from the l...,
Where does information from the r...
12  cards
Lesson 9 plasticity and functional recovery biopsych
Define brain plasticity 1,
What does plasticity allow 2,
Kuhn et al 2014 3
15  cards
Lesson 10 ways of studying the brain
What are the ways of studying the...,
What does an fmri provide 2,
What does an fmri use 3
18  cards
lesson 1 origins of psychology approaches
Define psychology 1,
What subject did psychology emerg...,
Who is known as the father of psy...
15  cards
lesson 2 classical conditioning- Pavlov's research approaches
What is classical conditioning 1,
Who first demonstrated classical ...,
What did the dogs do before class...
12  cards
lesson 3 operant conditioning approaches
What is operant conditioning 1,
What is reinforcement 2,
What is punishment 3
20  cards
Lesson 4 The Learning Approach
Define the social learning theory 1,
Who devised the social learning t...,
What is step 1 of the social lear...
16  cards
Lesson 5 Cognitive Approach
Define the cognitive approach 1,
What does the cognitive approach ...,
What are internal mental processes 3
26  cards
lesson 6 the biological approach
What does the biological approach...,
Define heredity 2,
What influences how a gene develo...
33  cards
Lesson 7 the psychodynamic approach
What does this approach assume 1,
What part of the mind did freud s...,
What did freud say the mind was l...
70  cards
Lesson 8 humanistic approach
What are the basic assumptions of...,
What does every individual is uni...,
What does free will mean 3
39  cards
lesson 9 comparison of approaches
Focus of study for the learning t...,
Focus of study for cognitive appr...,
Focus of study for biological app...
32  cards
lesson 1 content and thematic analysis
Define content analysis 1,
How can data be analysed in conte...,
What type of technique is content...
18  cards
lesson 2 case studies
What is the purpose of a case stu...,
When do case studies take place 2,
What methods can case studies use...
6  cards
lesson 11 circadian rhythms
Define biological rhythms 1,
What are the three types of biolo...,
What are circadian rhythms 3
16  cards
lesson 12 ultradian and infradian rhythms
What are ultradian rhythms 1,
Example of an ultradian rhythm 2,
What does each stage in the sleep...
5  cards
lesson 3 assessing and improving reliability
Define reliability 1,
What are two ways to test reliabi...,
What is the test retest method 3
14  cards
lesson 1: top-down approach
Define offender profiling 1,
What idea is offender profiling b...,
Who was the top down approach dev...
12  cards
lesson 2 bottom-up approach
What type of approach is the bott...,
What does the bottom up approach ...,
What happens with the statistical...
21  cards
lesson 4 types of validity- assessing and improving validity
Define validity 1,
Define internal validity 2,
Define external validity 3
17  cards
lesson 5 and 6 research methods- features of science
Define science 1,
Define psychology 2,
Define objectivity 3
31  cards
lesson 7 reporting psychological investigations
What are some general points writ...,
What are the 7 parts of a report 2,
What should be included in the ti...
9  cards
lesson 3 atavistic form
What did cesare lombroso suggest 1,
When was the historical approach ...,
What did offenders have according...
12  cards
lesson 4 genetic and neural explanations
What can criminal behaviour be 1,
What are the genes that play a ro...,
What are the genes called that pl...
14  cards
lesson 5 eyseneck’s criminal personality
What did eysenck say about our pe...,
What do all personality types have 2,
What do offenders have 3
10  cards
lesson 6 cognitive explanations
Who came up with the moral reason...,
What is moral reasoning 2,
What are offenders more likely to...
15  cards
lesson 7 differential association theory
Who came up with the theory 1,
What does the theory propose 2,
How does someone develop pro crim...
9  cards
lesson 8 psychodynamic explanations
What do offenders have 1,
What are the three types of inade...,
What is a weak superego 3
10  cards
lesson 9 custodial sentencing
What are the 4 aims of custodial ...,
What is deterrence 2,
What is general deterrence 3
19  cards
lesson 10 behaviour modification
Define behaviour modification 1,
What is token economy 2,
What are secondary reinforcers 3
13  cards
lesson 11 anger management
How many stages does anger manage...,
What is the first stage of anger ...,
What is the second stage of anger...
12  cards
lesson 12 restorative justice
What is restorative justice 1,
What does the trained mediator do 2,
What is the victim given 3
11  cards
lesson 1 evolutionary explanations
According to evolutionary psychol...,
What are male gametes like 2,
What are female gametes like 3
16  cards
lesson 2 self-disclosure
Define self disclosure 1,
What happens as people build trus...,
What can self diclosing too quick...
11  cards
lesson 1 issues associated with the classification and diagnosis for SZ
What is schizophrenia characteris...,
What does schizophrenia affect 2,
What are the two classification s...
37  cards
lesson 2 biological explanations
What are the two factors biologic...,
How are genetic factors tested 2,
What are family studies 3
27  cards
lesson 3 psychological explanations of SZ
What have psychologists attempted...,
What are the three ways family dy...,
What is the schizophrenogenic mot...
20  cards
lesson 4 biological therapies for SZ
What is the most common treatment...,
How can the drugs be taken 2,
When do injections tend to be giv...
33  cards
lesson 5 psychological therapies
What are the three main psycholog...,
What is cbt 2,
How long is cbt 3
26  cards

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