PSYCHOLOGY - core studies

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Decks in this class (19)

Social (CLASSIC) - responses to people in authority - MILGRAM
Classic study and year 1,
Social principles 2,
Define agentic state 3
44  cards
Social (CONTEMPORARY) - responses to people in authority - BOCCHIARO
Define a whistle blower 1,
Aims of the study 2,
Describe the sample 3
30  cards
Social (CLASSIC) - responses to people in need - PILIAVIN
Define bystander effect 1,
Define pluralistic ignorance 2,
Define diffusion of responsibility 3
27  cards
Social (CONTEMPORARY) - responses to people in need - LEVINE
Define kin selection theory 1,
Define reciprocal altruism 2,
Define responsibility prosocial v...
18  cards
Biological (CLASSIC) - regions of the brain - SPERRY
Describe the background of the st...,
Describe localisation of function 2,
Describe split brain operations 3
30  cards
Biological (CONTEMPORARY) - regions of the brain - CASEY
Comment on the background 1,
Define delayed gratification 2,
Psychologists believe we us _____...
27  cards
Biological - (CLASSIC) - brain plasticity - BLAKEMORE & COOPER
The thalamus of a cat is part of ...,
Define neuroplasticity in cats 2,
What is flexibility of cerebral e...
34  cards
Biological (CONTMEMPORARY) - brain plasticity - MAGUIRE
Define brain plasticity 1,
Define the limbic system 2,
Define the hippocampus 3
24  cards
Developmental (CLASSIC) - external influences on children's behavior - BANDURA
Explain the social learning theory 1,
Explain vicarious reinforcement 2,
Aims 3
25  cards
Developmental (CONTEMPORARY) - external influences on children's behavior- CHANEY
Operant conditioning 1,
Positive reinforcement 2,
Negative reinforcement 3
18  cards
Developmental (CLASSIC) - moral development - KOHLBERG
Define morality 1,
Freud s psychoanalytic theory 2,
Piaget s cognitive theory 3
43  cards
Developmental (CONTEMPORARY) - moral development - LEE
Western cultures are 1,
Eastern cultures are 2,
Western cultures 3
23  cards
Cognitive (CLASSIC) - memory - LOFTUS & PALMER
Describe reconstructed memories 1,
Define schemas 2,
Define memory 3
16  cards
Cognitive (CONTEMPORARY) - memory - GRANT
Context dependent memory 1,
Recall 2,
Recognition 3
34  cards
Cognitive (CONTEMPORARY) - attention - MORAY
Selective attention 1,
Shadowing technique 2,
Inattentional block 3
17  cards
Cognitive (CONTEMPORARY) - attention - SIMONS & CHABRIS
Divided attention 1,
Focused visual attention 2,
Background 3
15  cards
Individual Defferences (CLASSIC) - understanding disorders - FREUD
Conscious mind 1,
Unconscious mind 2,
Psychoanalysis 3
23  cards
Individual Differences (CONTEMPORARY) - understanding disorders - BARON-COHEN
Autism 1,
Mind blindness 2,
Theory of mind 3
7  cards
Individual Differences (CONTEMPORARY) - measuring differences - HANCOCK
Psychopath 1,
Maslow s hierarchy of needs 2,
Language 3
34  cards

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