WEEK 1 Flashcards
What is psychology?
Psychology is a study of behaviour and mental processes in different contexts.
What is biopsychology?
Biopsychology focuses on the biological basis of behaviour
Example - the brain responsible for controlling emotions
What is developmental psychology?
Developmental psychology is concerned with physical and cognitive changes across the life span.
Example - infants ability to identify faces
What is clinical psychology?
Clinical psychology deals with diagnosis and treatment of mental health. (They do diagnosis verses the other types are therapy focused)
What is Health psychology?
Health psychology is more concerned about the impact of physiological factors on a person’s health
What is educational psychology?
Educational psychology is concerned with the process of teaching and learning
What is Industrial organisational psychology?
Industrial organisational psychology is concerned with with psychology of workplace such as productivity and job satisfaction.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
Psychoanalytic theory refers to dynamics of personality development which guide psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
What does CAT?
Cognitive Analytic Therapy
The mind is believed to be divided into 3 parts, what are they?
- The conscious mind - what we are aware of
- The pre conscious mind - memories that can be retrieved
- The unconscious mind - a reservoir of unacceptable feelings and memories (this is stored in a separate part of our brain)
What is Evidence Based Cognitive Theory?
- most evidence based therapies use an eclectic approach using cognitive, interpersonal and behavioural theory to develop suitable applications based on multiple approaches.
Behaviours are learnt by?
- by association with another event (classical conditioning)
- by reward or punishment (operant conditioning)
- by imitation (modelling)
