psychology - core studies

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Decks in this class (13)

Social (CLASSIC) - responses to people in authority - MILGRAM
Classic study and year,
Social principles,
Define agentic state
44  cards
Social (CONTEMPORARY) - responses to people in authority - BOCCHIARO
Define a whistleblower,
Aims of the study,
Describe the sample
30  cards
Social (CLASSIC) - responses to people in need - PILIAVIN
Define bystander effect,
Define pluralistic ignorance,
Define diffusion of responsibility
27  cards
Social (CONTEMPORARY) - responses to people in need - LEVINE
Define kin selection theory,
Define reciprocal altruism,
Define responsibility prosocial v...
18  cards
Biological (CLASSIC) - regions of the brain - SPERRY
Describe the background of the study,
Describe localisation of function,
Describe split brain operations
30  cards
Biological (CONTEMPORARY) - regions of the brain - CASEY
Comment on the background,
Define delayed gratification,
Psychologists believe we us _____...
27  cards
Biological - (CLASSIC) - brain plasticity - BLAKEMORE & COOPER
The thalamus of a cat is part of ...,
Define neuro,
What is flexibility of cerebral e...
34  cards
Biological (CONTMEMPORARY) - brain plasticity - MAGUIRE
Define brain plasticity,
Define the limbic system,
Define the hippocampus
24  cards
Developmental (CLASSIC) - external influences on children's behavior - BANDURA
Explain the social learning theory,
Explain vicarious reinforcement,
Aims
25  cards
Developmental (CONTEMPORARY) - external influences on children's behavior- CHANEY
Operant conditioning,
Positive reinforcement,
Negative reinforcement
18  cards
Developmental (CLASSIC) - moral development - KOHLBERG
Define morality,
Freud s psychoanalytic theory,
Piaget s cognitive theory
43  cards
Developmental (CONTEMPORARY) - moral development - LEE
Western cultures are,
Eastern cultures are,
Western cultures
23  cards
Cognitive (CLASSIC) - memory - LOFTUS & PALMER
Describe reconstructed memories,
Define schemas,
Define memory
4  cards

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