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Social Influence - Variables affecting conformity (GREY)
Describe asch s baseline procedure,
What are the 3 variables affectin...,
What were the results of asch s b...
4  cards
Social Influence - Conformity to social roles (GREY)
What were zimbardo s conclusions ...,
How were a sample of participants...,
What did the researchers do to em...
8  cards
Social Influence - Explanations for obedience
Describe milgram s sampling metho...,
How were the participants deceive...,
What signs of distress were seen ...
17  cards
Social Influence - Dispositional explanations
How is the authoritarian personal...,
What 3 characteristics does the a...,
What psychodynamic explanation di...
5  cards
Social Influence - Explanations of resistance
What are the explanations of resi...,
What is the situational factor so...,
What is the dispositional factor ...
3  cards
Social Influence - Minority influence
What is minority influence,
What are the 3 necessary factors ...,
What was the task and conditions ...
5  cards
Memory - Multi-store Model
What are the three types of memory,
What types of coding does each ty...,
What are the capacities of each t...
12  cards
Memory - Types of long-term memory (GREY)
What are the 3 ltm stores,
What is episodic memory,
What is semantic memory
4  cards
Memory - Working Memory Model
What does the central executive c...,
What s the function of the phonol...,
What is the function of the visuo...
7  cards
Memory - Explanations for Forgetting (GREY)
What is a cue,
Describe the deep sea divers stud...
2  cards
Memory - Improving accuracy of eyewitness testimony
Why is reporting everything impor...,
Why is mental reinstatement of or...,
Why is recalling events in a diff...
7  cards
Attachment - Caregiver-infant interactions (GREY)
What is reciprocity,
What is interactional synchrony
2  cards
Attachment - Role of father (GREY)
What is the role of the father
1  cards
Attachment - Animal studies
How did lorenz carry out his study,
What were the findings of lorenz ...,
What did lorenz find was the crit...
10  cards
Attachment - Explanations
What is the evolutionary explanat...,
What is the learning theory expla...,
What are the 2 behavioural proces...
9  cards
Attachment - Strange situation
What are the 3 types of attachment,
Describe ainsworths study on the ...,
What are the stages of the strang...
8  cards
Attachment - Maternal deprivation
What is separation,
What is deprivation,
What is privation
22  cards
Attachment - Internal working model
What is the internal working model,
What is bowlby s continuity hypot...
2  cards
Psychopathology - Definitions of abnormality
What are the 4 ways to define an ...,
What is statistical infrequency,
What is considered statistically ...
16  cards
Psychopathology - Phobias + OCD (GREY)
What are specific phobias,
What are social phobias,
What is agoraphobia
13  cards
Psychopathology - Depression (GREY?)
What are the characteristics of d...,
What is the dsm criteria for depr...,
What are the cognitive mechanisms...
7  cards
Psychopathology - Behavioural approach
What are the strengths to the two...,
What are the limitations of the t...,
What are the two behavioural meth...
11  cards
Psychopathology - Biological approach
What are the two biological expla...,
What studies support genetics as ...,
What is the strength and weakness...
17  cards
Approaches - Behaviourist approach
What is the behaviourism in the l...,
What are the main terms used in t...,
Describe pavlov s research into c...
16  cards
Approaches - Social Learning Theory
What is social learning theory in...,
What is vicarious reinforcement,
What is identification
8  cards
Approaches - Psychodynamic approach
What is the psychodynamic approach,
What is id,
What is ego
23  cards
Approaches - Humanistic approach
What are the assumptions of the h...,
What are the stages of maslow s h...,
What are examples of physiologica...
20  cards
Biopsychology - Nervous system
What is the role of the nervous s...,
What are the two divisions of the...,
What is the role of the central n...
10  cards
Biopsychology - Neurons
What is a neuron,
What is the function of the nucleus,
What is the function of the dendr...
14  cards
Biopsychology - Synaptic transmission
What is a synapse,
What is a neurotransmitter,
What is the synaptic transmission...
4  cards
Biopsychology - Function in the brain
What are the areas of the left he...,
What is the cerebral cortex,
What is the corpus callosum
54  cards
Biopsychology - Ways of studying brain
What are the 5 ways of studying t...,
What is an eeg,
What are examples of eegs
19  cards
Schizophrenia - Symptoms (GREY)
What is schizophrenia,
What are positive symptoms,
What are negative symptoms
13  cards
Schizophrenia - Dopamine hypothesis (GREY)
What is dopamine,
What is the dopamine hypothesis,
How does the dopamine hypothesis ...
4  cards
Schizophrenia - Psychological explanations
What are the two psychological ex...,
What is family dysfunction,
What are the 3 types of family dy...
15  cards
Schizophrenia - Drug therapy
How do antipsychotic drugs work,
How are typical antipsychotic dru...,
What are the side effects of typi...
12  cards
Schizophrenia - CBT + Family therapy
What is family therapy,
What is the aim of family therapy,
How does family therapy work
10  cards
Schizophrenia - Token economies
What are token economies based on,
What sort of symptoms do token ec...,
How do token economies work
8  cards
Schizophrenia - Interactionist approach
What is the interactionist approa...,
How does the diathesis stress mod...,
What was the original diathesis s...
7  cards
Debates - Gender + culture (GREY)
What is universality,
What is androcentrism,
What is alpha bias
12  cards
Debates - Free will + determinism
Why is the determinism free will ...,
What is free will,
What is determinism
14  cards
Debates - Nature/nurture (GREY)
What is the nature vs nurture deb...,
What is nature,
What is nurture
14  cards
Debates - Holism/reductionism (GREY)
What is the reductionism vs holis...,
What is holism,
What is reductionism
10  cards
Debates - Idiographic + nomothetic
What is idiographic,
What is nomothetic,
What type of data does idiographi...
13  cards
Debates - Ethics
What is social sensitive research,
What are the 3 main concerns of s...,
What research could be seen to su...
10  cards
Forensics - Offender profiling
What is offender profiling,
What is an offender profile,
What is a dichotomy
20  cards
Forensics - Psychological explanations
What are the 4 psychological expl...,
What is eysenck s general persona...,
What 3 features did ersenck say t...
40  cards
Cognition + Development - Piaget's theory
Who is piaget,
What are schemas,
What is disequilibrium
32  cards
Cognition + Development - Vygotsky's theory
What is the difference between vy...,
What is scaffolding,
What features may scaffolding use
14  cards
Cognition + Development - Baillargeon (GREY)
Who is baillargeon,
What is violation of expectation ...,
What happened in baillargeon s vi...
7  cards
Cognition + Development - Social cognition - theory of mind, mirror neurons and perspective taking
What is social cognition,
What are the 3 areas of social co...,
What are selman s levels of persp...
52  cards
Research methods - Techniques
What are the 4 experimental methods,
What is a laboratory experiment,
What is a field experiment
21  cards
Research methods - Scientific processes
What are the 6 ethical guidelines,
What is an independent variable,
What is a dependent variable
86  cards
Research methods - Data handling + analysis
What is a mean,
What is a median,
What is a mode
17  cards
Research methods - Inferential testing
How do you see if our result is s...,
What are the steps to find out if...,
In psychology what percentage do ...
19  cards
Cognition + development - social cognition - theory of mind
What is theory of mind,
What is lack of theory of mind,
What tests can be used to show wh...
14  cards
Cognition + development - social cognition - mirror neurons
What are mirror neurons,
What happened in rizzolatti s res...,
What do we encode
13  cards
Cognition + development - social cognition - perspective taking
What are selman s levels of persp...,
How did selman propose that the a...,
How did selman research perspecti...
23  cards
Forensics - psychological explanations - Eysenck's criminal personality theory
What are the 4 psychological expl...,
What is eysenck s general persona...,
What 3 features did ersenck say t...
14  cards
Forensics - psychological explanations - cognitive explanations
What are the two cognitive explan...,
What is level of moral reasoning,
Explain kohlberg s study on level...
14  cards
Forensics - psychological explanations - Differential Association Theory
What is differential association ...,
How is criminal learning learnt i...,
What are the strengths of differe...
4  cards
Forensics - psychological explanations - psychodynamic explanation
What are the two psychodynamic ex...,
What are the 3 inadequate superegos,
Why did freud believe that women ...
9  cards
Attachment - Maternal deprivation - Bowlby 44 theives
What is separation,
What is deprivation,
What is privation
10  cards
Attachment - Maternal deprivation - Rutter's study of English Romanian Adoptees
Who were the participants of rutt...,
What were the children assessed f...,
What were the findings at adoptio...
8  cards
Attachment - Maternal deprivation - Bucharest Early Intervention Project
How was the bucharest early inter...,
What were the findings of the buc...,
What were the attachment findings...
4  cards
Cognition + development - Piagets theory - piagets literal theory andschemas
Who is piaget,
What are schemas,
What is disequilibrium
11  cards
Cognition + development - Piagets theory - stages of intellectual development
What are piaget s four stages of ...,
What is the sensorimotor stage,
What is object permanence
20  cards
Research methods - paradigms
What are the 5 key features of sc...,
What is a paradigm,
What is pre science
16  cards
Research methods - reports
What are the features of a scient...,
What is an abstract,
What is an introduction
12  cards
Research methods - hypotheses
What is an experimental hypothesis,
What is a correlational hypothesis,
What is an alternate hypothesis
7  cards
Research methods - open + closed questions
What is an open question,
What are the strengths of open qu...,
What are the limitations of open ...
12  cards
Research methods - validity
What is internal validity,
What is face validity,
What is concurrent validity
5  cards
Research methods - reliability
What is reliability,
What is test retest,
What is inter observer reliability
5  cards
Research methods - sampling
What is opportunity sampling,
What is volunteer sampling,
What is random sampling
5  cards
Research methods - variables
What is an independent variable,
What is a dependent variable,
What is an extraneous variable
6  cards
Research methods - design
What is an independent groups design,
What is repeated measures design,
What is matched pairs design
13  cards
Research methods - experiments
What are the 4 experimental methods,
What is a laboratory experiment,
What is a field experiment
14  cards
Research methods - self-reports
Why do we use self reports,
What are the strengths of a self ...,
What are the limitations of a sel...
7  cards

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