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approaches: origins of psychology
What is the definition of science,
What does systematic refer to,
What does objectivity refer to
15  cards
approaches: behaviourism
What is behaviourism,
Who were the leading theorists of...,
Why do behaviourists believe in s...
26  cards
approaches: social learning theory
What is the social learning theory,
What are the defining features of...,
What is modelling
15  cards
approaches: the cognitive approach
What is the cognitive approach,
Key assumptions of the cognitive ...,
What is a schema
14  cards
approaches: humanistic approach
What is the humanistic approach,
What is humanistic psychology kno...,
What are the key assumptions of h...
21  cards
approaches: psychodynamic approach
What is the psychodynamic approach,
What are the key assumptions of t...,
What is the importance of relatio...
26  cards
approaches: biological approach
What is the biological approach,
What are the focuses of the biolo...,
How is a biological perspective r...
41  cards
memory: coding, capacity and the duration of memory
What is memory,
What is short term memory,
What is long term memory
37  cards
memory: types of long-term memory
Who was endel tulving 1985,
What are the three different type...,
What is episodic memory
20  cards
memory: the multi-store model of memory
Who proposed the multi store mode...,
What is the multi store model of ...,
Describe the processes of the mul...
20  cards
memory: the working model of memory
What is the working model of memory,
Who created the working model of ...,
What is the wmm concerned with
29  cards
memory: explanations for forgetting -> interference
What is interference,
Which type of memory has interfer...,
What are the two types of interfe...
13  cards
memory: explanations for forgetting -> retrieval failure
What is retrieval failure,
Who proposed the encoding specifi...,
What is the encoding specificity ...
15  cards
memory: factors effecting eyewitness testimony -> misleading information
What does eyewitness testimony mean,
How do leading questions effect e...,
What are the two ways leading que...
23  cards
memory: factors effecting eyewitness testimony -> anxiety
What is anxiety,
What are some symptoms of anxiety,
What is one approach to studying ...
17  cards
memory: improving accuracy of eyewitness testimony -> cognitive interview
What is the cognitive interview,
Who proposed the cognitive interview,
What did fisher and geiselman argue
19  cards
research methods: experimental method
1  cards
research methods: experimental method and control of variables
What is a hypothesis,
What is an aim,
What is an experiment
11  cards
research methods: research issues
What is an extraneous variable,
What are extraneous variables des...,
What are examples of extraneous v...
10  cards
research methods: experimental designs
What does experimental design mean,
What are the three types of exper...,
What is the repeated measures design
19  cards
research methods: types of experiment
What are the four types of experi...,
What is a laboratory experiment,
Who manipulates the iv in lab exp...
20  cards
research methods: Sampling
What does population mean,
What is a target population,
Why do researchers use samples fr...
24  cards
research methods: ethical issues and ways to deal with them
What are ethical issues,
What document instructs british p...,
What are the 4 main issues of eth...
23  cards
research methods: pilot studies
What are pilot studies,
What is the aim of pilot studies,
What do pilot studies aim to eval...
7  cards
research methods: types of data
What is qualitative data,
What are examples of qualitative ...,
What are the strengths of qualita...
21  cards
research methods: presentation of quantitative data
What are bar charts used for,
What is discrete data,
What do bar charts show
13  cards
research methods: peer review and psychological research and the economy
What is peer review,
What are the main aims of peer re...,
Outline the process of peer review
11  cards
research methods: measures of central tendency and dispersion
What is the advantage of using a ...,
What is the disadvantage of using...,
What is the advantage of using th...
14  cards
research methods: reliability
What is reliability,
When can a measurement be conside...,
What measurement tools do psychol...
15  cards
research methods: validity
What is validity,
How can data be reliable but not ...,
What is internal validity
17  cards
research methods: features of science
What features is science meant to...,
What is falsifiability,
Who argued that the key criterion...
26  cards
research methods: reporting psychological investigations
What is the format for psychologi...,
What is the abstract,
What does an abstract include
15  cards

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