Tutorial 1 - Week 2 Flashcards

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Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation

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  • Reason 1990
  • Theory that explains accidents can occur if there are holes that when added together allow the conditions of accident to occure
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Latent Conditions

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  • Features that may contribute to an accident.
  • By themselves, each Latent Condition does not cause an accident
  • Multiple Latent conditions added together create an accident
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Causation

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  • How one variable stimulates another variable to influence and outcome
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Causation in Behaviour

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  • Behavior is determined by multiple causes

- Biopsychosocial model describes Swiss Cheese Model of Causation

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Three Concepts important to the definition of Psychology

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  • Science
  • Behaviour
  • Mental Processes
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Contemporary Psychological Perspectives asks . . .

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  • Why do we behave the way we do and think the way we think?
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Seven Unifying Themes of Psychology

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  • Psychology is Empirical
  • Pschology is Theoretically Diverse
  • Psycology evolves in Socio-Historical Context
  • Behaviour has Multiple Causes
  • Behaviour is influenced by Cultural Heritage
  • Heredity and Environment influence behaviour
  • People’s experience is highly subjetive
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Principle Contributors of Psychoanalitcal Theory

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  • Sigmund Freud
  • Carl Jung
  • Alfred Adler
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Principle Contributors of Behavioural Theory

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  • Ivan Pavlov
  • BF Skinner
  • John Watson
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Principle Contributors of Humanistic Theory

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  • Carl Rogers

- Abraham Maslow

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Principle Contributors of Cognitive Theory

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  • Jean Piaget
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Herbert Simon
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Principle Contributors of Biological/Neuroscience Theory

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  • James Olds
  • Roger Sperry
  • David Hubel
  • Torsten Weisel
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Principle Contributors of Sociohistorical Theory

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  • Soloman Asch
  • Stanley Milgram
  • Phillip Zimbardo
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Principle Contributors of Evolutionary Theory

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  • David Buss
  • Leda Cosmides
  • John Tooby
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Principle Contributors of Positive Psychology Theory

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  • Martin Seligman
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A New Science is born

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  • Psychology stems from philosophy and physiology
  • Wilhem Wundt founded Psycholgoy in 1879
  • Wundt said Psyhcology should be the specific study of consciousness
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G. Stanley Hall

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  • Launched first American Psychological Journal 1887

- Helped establish the American Psychological Association - 1892

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Strucutalism vs Functionalism

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  • Structuralists says Psychology should analyse the consciousness in its basic elements
  • We use introspection to analyse consciousness
  • Functionalism says we should study the purpose of consciousness
  • Functionalism then fostered the emergence of behaviourism and applied psychology
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Freud focuses on unconscious

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  • Freud was controversial but also influential
  • Psychoanalysis emphasises unconscious behaviour and importance of sexuality
  • unconscious has strong influence on consciousness and behaviour
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Behaviourism Debuts

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  • Founded by John B Watson
  • psychology should only study observable behaviour
  • Disregarded the consciousness
  • Nurture over Nature
  • Pioneered animal research
  • BF Skinner said that free will was an illusion
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Humanist response to Behaviourism

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  • Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
  • Emphasises the unique qualities of human behaviour and said animal research is irrelevant
  • Had optimistic view of human nature
  • Said people had free will and had potential for growth
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Cognitve Approach resurfaces

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  • psychology began to focus on consciousness again

- renewed interest in cognition and biological bases of behaviour

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Interest in cultural factors grows

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  • Western psychologists began to be aware of the influence on culture on behaviour
  • Global diversity and diversity within Western culture became factors
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Evolutionary psychology gains prominence

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  • 1990s
  • patterns of behaviour can be seen as the product of evolution just like physical changes
  • Natural selection favours behaviours that increase survival
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Psycholgoy moves in a positive direction

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  • Martin Seligman 1990’s
  • Previously psychology focused too much on pathology and suffering
  • Research adaptive, creative and positive human experience
  • Studies positive emotions, personal strengths and virtues