This pack of flashcards encompasses psychological theories and treatments for phobias and depression, detailing the two-process model, systematic desensitisation, flooding, and cognitive theories such as Beck's and Ellis's models. It outlines therapy approaches including CBT and REBT, their mechanisms, benefits, and limitations, as well as evidence supporting these cognitive theories.

Phobias [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses explanations and treatments of OCD, including the biological approach, genetic factors, the diathesis-stress model, and the role of neurotransmitters like serotonin. It also covers the effectiveness of drug therapies such as SSRIs, SNRIs, and tricyclics, and acknowledges potential side effects. Additional cards delve into the acquisition of phobias and an explanation of depression.

OCD [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This flashcard pack explores various aspects of memory and cognition, covering long-term memory types such as episodic, semantic, and procedural memories. It delves into the Working Memory Model, including its components and supporting evidence. The pack also examines theories of memory interference, context-dependent forgetting, and state-dependent forgetting. In addition, it addresses the complexities of eyewitness testimony, the influence of leading questions, post-event discussion, and the effects of anxiety on recall, as well as the Cognitive Interview technique and its enhancements and limitations.

Types of Long Term Memory [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Resistance to Social Influence [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses a comprehensive overview of obedience studies in psychology, focusing on Milgram's 1963 research and its subsequent analysis. It covers the experiment's aims, procedures, findings, ethical concerns, and factors affecting obedience, such as situational variables and the agentic state. The flashcards also explore the concept of the authoritarian personality and how it relates to obedience, with comparative studies and critiques included.

Obedience [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards covers key concepts in attachment theory, including 'cupboard love', classical and operant conditioning, Bowlby's innate theory, and Ainsworth's Strange Situation study. It reviews attachment types, the role of culture in attachment, and pivotal research findings that inform our understanding of the development and implications of child-caregiver relationships.

Explanations of Attachment: Learning Theory [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Conformity [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses key concepts in memory psychology, focusing on the characteristics and processes of short-term and long-term memory. It covers the coding, capacity, and duration of memories, providing insights from seminal research studies and models, such as Baddeley's 1966 research, Miller's 1956 findings, and the Multi-Store Model of Memory. Additionally, it includes the practical implications and potential weaknesses of these memory studies.

Coding Capacity & Duration of Memory [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Attachment [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Abnormality [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses a comprehensive overview of statistical testing in psychological research. It covers the definitions, significance levels, error types, and the selection process for different statistical tests. Additionally, it explains various statistical methods such as the Sign Test, Mann-Whitney test, Wilcoxon test, t-tests, Spearman's rho, Pearson's r, and Chi-Squared test, including their application, interpretation of results, and critical values. It also touches on designing a study and understanding hypotheses.

Inferential Testing [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards covers key concepts in psychological approaches, including cognitive and biological perspectives, cognitive neuroscience, and the psychodynamic approach developed by Freud. It explains mental processes, schemas, genotype and phenotype, natural selection, and determinism, as well as Freud's structure of personality, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages of development.

The Cognitive Approach [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards explores brain function and biological rhythms, covering hemispheric lateralisation, split-brain research findings, neuroimaging techniques like fMRI and EEG, and the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus in sleep/wake cycles. It also delves into circadian, infradian, and ultradian rhythms, the effects of pheromones, and ethical considerations in related research.

Split Brain Research [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses fundamental concepts in research methodology, detailing the definitions and distinctions among key elements such as study aims, hypotheses, variables, sampling techniques, and experimental designs. It also covers controls for bias and reliability, observational research, questionnaires, and interviews. Each card presents a specific term or concept on the front, with a concise explanation or delineation on the back.

Research Method: Scientific Method & Techniques [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Research Methods: Data [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Research Methods: Concerns [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Humanistic Psychology [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Data Handling & Analysis [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This flashcard pack covers various research methods and their evaluations in psychology. It includes descriptions of experimental designs such as laboratory, field, natural, and quasi experiments, along with observational techniques such as naturalistic, controlled, covert, overt, participant, and non-participant observations. It also explains self-report techniques, interviews, correlational studies, content analysis, and case studies, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and biases associated with each method.

Research Methods: Techniques [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Biopsychology [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Approaches in Psychology [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards covers theories and concepts related to virtual and parasocial relationships, communication strategies, and attraction models. It includes explanations of self-disclosure in online interactions, the Reduced cues theory, the Hyperpersonal model, the effects of anonymity, the concept of gating, and the dynamics of 'boom and bust' in virtual relationships. It also addresses theories on celebrity worship, such as the parasocial relationships' levels and the Absorption-addiction model, as well as insights into various attraction and relationship maintenance theories like the Halo Effect, the Matching Hypothesis, and Duck's phase model.

Virtual Relationships in Social Media [alevel/aqa-psychology]

The Ethological Explanation of Aggression [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards explores the physiological and psychological responses to stress, including the General Adaptation Syndrome, acute and chronic stress responses, and the role of the hypothalamus in these processes. It also covers the impact of stress on the immune system and cardiovascular health, with references to key studies. Additionally, the flashcards discuss sources of stress, such as major life events and daily hassles, and their associated assessment tools and research findings.

Stress [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses models of job stress, personality types linked to stress, measuring stress through scales, and the effectiveness of stress management techniques. It covers key studies, criticisms of models, drug therapies, and psychological methods like Stress Inoculation Therapy, highlighting their limitations and potential effects on stress resistance and management.

Sources of Stress: Workplace Stress [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses the principles of Social Learning Theory, with a focus on aggression and its related concepts such as direct and indirect learning, observational learning, vicarious reinforcement, cognitive processes, self-efficacy, and studies supporting these theories. It also explores the importation and deprivation models of prison aggression, the effects of violent media on aggression, and the psychological processes of desensitization, disinhibition, and cognitive priming.

Social Learning Theory of Aggression [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Schizophrenia: Genetics [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards explores complex psychological theories related to criminal behavior, including Eysenck’s personality dimensions, the role of socialization, moral reasoning stages, and cognitive distortions. It delves into theories of offending behavior, methods like the Eysenck Personality Inventory for assessing traits, and the influences of intelligence and learned behaviors on criminality. The flashcards also examine Freudian perspectives on superego development and the impact of maternal deprivation on personality disorders.

Psychological Explanations of Offending Behaviour [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Managing & Coping with Stress [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards encompasses key concepts in gender development theories, including Gender Schema Theory, Freudian psychoanalytic perspectives, and the impact of culture and media on gender roles. It covers empirical findings, theoretical distinctions such as between Kohlberg's theory and Gender Schema Theory, and addresses both support for and criticism of various explanations, including biological perspectives on Gender Identity Disorder (GID).

Gender Schema Theory [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Forensic Psychology [alevel/aqa-psychology]

Filter Theory [alevel/aqa-psychology]

This pack of flashcards addresses key concepts in criminal justice and psychology, covering topics such as custodial sentencing, psychological effects of imprisonment, recidivism, behavior modification in prisons including token economies and anger management, as well as restorative justice principles and practices. It also explores criminal behavior theories and personality factors related to antisocial behavior.

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