Behavioural Sciences Review Flashcards
Crisis Theory
How people change and affect their mindset on performing an outcome like agreeing to a treatment based on background factors (illness related, personal/environmental factors) and cognitive appraisal
Role of Hypothalamus
Detecting changes to then tell the body to make necessary changes which may be needed to maintain homeostasis
Effect of cortisol
Telling parts of the brain that the fight or flight response has been activated so that chemical stimulus can stop being sent
Chronic stress biochemically
The brain continues to fire cortisol even when the cause is passed
Positive vs Negative Stress
Positive - Perception of ability to cope with threat
Negative - Perception of inability to cope with threat
Transactional Model of Stress - Lazarus and Folkman 1984
Assessment of attachment quality
Child in strange situation where child and parent enter unfamiliar room
Stranger joins
Stranger leaves
Parent leaves (child alone)
Stranger returns
Parent returns and stranger leaves
How do children of different attachment styles act when alone with mother in new room, mother leaves, stranger anxiety and mother returning
Negative Reinforcement vs Punishment
Negative reinforcement strengthens a behaviour by removing an undesirable stimulus (e.g. symptoms relieved by going to doctor) while punishment weakens behaviour by introducing an undesirable stimulus
Positive vs Negative Punishment
Positive vs Negative Reinforcement
The Big Five
OCEAN Openness to Experience Conscientiousness (Dependable/Organised/Hard-working) Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism
Types of Stigma - Give examples for enacted stigma and self-stigma for each regarding mental health
Types of Memory
Sensory Memory
Short Term Memory
Long Term Memory
Primacy and Recency Effects
Four Types of Groups
Primary Groups - Families, Close friends
Social Groups - Employees, Juries, Revision Group
Associations - People at bus stop, cinema audience
Categories - Women, Buddhists
Health Belief Model
What factors affect perceived threat in terms of the Health Belief Model
Perceived Seriousness and Susceptibility
Cues to Action in Health Belief Model
Stimulus needed to trigger the decision-making process to accept a recommended health action
Theory of Planned Behaviour
Stages of Behaviour Change
