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What is extinction?

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Reduction in a conditioned response

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Which 3 things are in Eysenck’s model of personality?

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Psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticisim

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What is incubation?

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Increase in strength of a response following brief but repeated exposures to a stimulusq

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What is habituation?

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The successive presentation of a stimulus, which elicits a response eventually, leads to a decrease in the intensity of that response

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What is stimulus generalisation?

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Concept in classical conditioning
Conditioned response gets generalised to other stimuli that are similar to conditioned stimulus
An example is child with spider phobia also being scared of insects

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What is stimulus preparedness?

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Humans biologically predisposed to react with fear to certain stimuli - conditioning occurs quicker and more resistant to extinction

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Which strategies can improve encoding?

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Order and sorting info
Chunking 
Using mnemonics
Imageries
Adding importance and salience to the info 
Using primacy-recency effects
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How can retrieval be improved?

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Cueing

Reinstatement of learning context

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What is encoding specificity principle?

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The more similar the retrieval situation is to the coding situation, the better the retrieval

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What does Ray Osterrieth test test?

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Visual memory

Constructional ability

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What are esteem needs?

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The need to develop a sense of personal worth and competence and the need for recognition by others

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What are aesthetic and cognitive needs?

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Growth needs involving knowledge, understanding, beauty and symmetry

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In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which 4 levels are D needs and what are D needs?

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D needs are deficiency needs

First 4 levels of pyramid

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Level 1 Maslow

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Physiological needs - biological requirements for human survival - food, water, warmth

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Level 2 Maslow

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Safety needs - financial security, roof over head

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Level 3 Maslow

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Social - feelings of love and belonging

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Level 4 Maslow

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Esteem needs - social recognition, personal worth

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Level 5 Maslow

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Self actualisation - achieving ones full potential

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Which further levels did Maslow add when he expanded the pyramid?

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Growth needs included
Level 5 - cognitive needs
Level 6 - aesthetic needs
Level 7 - self actualisation 
Level 8 - transcendence
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What is transcendence?

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Where a person is motivated by values which transcend beyond the personal self (e.g. religion, mystical experiences, sexual experiences)

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Which attention theory states that people can only listen to one physical channel of information at a time?

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Broadbent’s filter theory of attention - proposed that there is an audio filter in the brain that selects which channel we should pay attention to

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Where did Broadbent propose that the audio filter lies?

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Between the sensory buffer and short-term store (working memory) that prevents overloading memory

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What is modelling?

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Observational learning explained by social learning theory

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Which name is associated with modelling?

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Bandura

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What is the commonest cause of long term forgetting?
Retrieval failure
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What approach are Needs theory and Goal theory based on?
Socio-psychological approach which address the cognitive motives behind people's complex behaviour in the context of their social situations such as work, family and society
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What are some extrinsic motivation theories?
Homeostatic drive theory Drive reduction theory Arousal reduction theory based on biopsychological perspective which examines physiological motives such as hunger and thirst in animals
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What is reciprocal inhibition?
The principle states that 2 opposing emotions cannot stay together for a long time - one will reciprocally inhibit the other
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What part of memory does semantic memory fall under?
Declarative
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What is semantic memory?
Facts, ideas, concepts
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What is retrospective falsification?
Unconscious distortion of memory
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What is episodic memory?
Autobiographical
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What is primary appraisal with respect to a life stressor?
Individual evaluates the stressor
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What is secondary appraisal with respect to life stressors?
Individual evaluates resources and options available to manage stressor
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Amnesic syndrome is characterised by marked impairment in what type of memory?
Episodic
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Which is a test of nonverbal intelligence?
Raven's progressive matrices
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Which learning principle is operating in compulsions?
Negative reinforcement
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What is the homeostatic drive theory?
Changes in homeostatic system triggers processes aimed at restoring system
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What is the drive reduction theory?
Motivation of behaviour is to decrease the arousal associated with basic drives
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What is paired associates a test of ?
Verbal memory
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What is habit reversal training useful for?
Tics | OCD spectrum disorders e.g. trichotillomania, nail biting, skin picking etc.
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Which learning principle is systematic desensitisation based on?
Classical conditioning
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What is systematic desensitisation?
Deep muscle relaxation paired with series of imagined scenes that depict situations that cause anxiety and thus produce anxiety
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What is state-dependent memory?
Phenomenon in which the retrieval cue at the time of encoding information is one's internal state rather than the external context e.g. dysthymic patient only remembers memories when depressed not when happy
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What is a projective test of personality?
Thematic apperception test
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Primary emotions
``` Anger Disgust Joy Anticipation Fear Acceptance Surprise Sadness ```
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What are secondary emotions
Love Contempt Submission Disappointment
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Is any processing involved in sensory memory?
No
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Memory loss in Korsakoff's
Severe anterograde and extensive retrograde amnesia inc. autobiographical with relative sparing of most distant memories Working memory and procedural memory are unimpaired
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Where are pathological features of Korsakoff's mainly found?
Paraventricular and periaqueductal grey Thalamus Mammillary bodies
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Visual acuity in newborn
20/300
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What is primacy effect?
Remember first few things said better than subsequent information
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2 components of declarative memory
Episodic - personal experiences | Semantic - factual knowledge
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What can test abstract reasoning?
Goldstein-Scheerer Colour Form Sorting Test | Wisconsin card sorting test is a descendant of this
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What is a schema?
Basic building block of intelligent behaviour
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What do schemas consist of?
Organised past experiences to understand future experiences
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By what process is information held in long term memory?
Elaborative rehearsal
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What is maintenance rehearsal?
Repetition of items in one's mind
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What is elaborative rehearsal?
Involves more extensive understanding of the meaning of material
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3 levels of rehearsal
1. Shallow processing - surface features only rehearsed 2. Phonemic processing - sound features are rehearsed 3. Semantic processing - deeper encoding
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Brain region responsible for working memory
Frontal lobe
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What is the cardinal feature of delirium?
Impaired attention
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Which test for personality tests dimensions of introversion-extraversion and neuroticism-stability?
Eysenck personality inventory
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What is a common cause of absent mindedness?
Failure of prospective memory
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Which part of brain is projective memory involved with?
Prefrontal lobe
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Difference between implosion and flooding
Implosion - immediate exposure to top of hierarchy without any gradual introduction of anxiety-inducing stimuli IN IMAGINATION Flooding - same but in real life
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What is the perceptual set?
Perceptual bias that predisposes the perceiver to only notice certain aspects of a stimulus and to ignore the other aspects
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What is forward conditioning?
Conditioned stimulus presented before the unconditioned stimulus
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Which type of memory cannot be consciously inspected?
Non-declarative
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WHat is non-declarative memory made up of?
Procedural memory Priming Classical conditioning Non-associative learning
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Features of amnesic syndrome
1. Unimpaired immediate memory 2. Anterograde amnesia 3. Retrograde amnesia 4. Unimpaired global intellect 5. Unimpaired implicit memory
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What is Premack's principle?
High-frequency or high-probability behaviours can be used for low-probability behaviours
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Reinforcement schedule in gambling
Variable ratio
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What is reintegration?
The process of recalling an entire memory from a partial cue
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Who proposed the theory of 6 basic emotions?
Ekman
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What is Brown Paterson task?
Introducing a distraction immediately after digit span test to prevent rehearsal
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Memory loss in alcoholic blackout
Anterograde amnesia due to failure to consolidate
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According to Ebbinghaus curve, there is a sharp drop in forgetting over how long?
9 hours
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What is trace conditioning?
Conditioned stimulus ends prior to application of unconditioned stimulus
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What is backward conditioning?
CS presented after UCS (used in advertising)
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What is stanford-binet theory?
Intelligent behaviours arise from a balance between analytical, creative and physical abilities
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Gestalt principles of perception
``` Proximity Closure Similarity Continuity Symmetry ```
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What is sensitisation?
An increase in response to a stimulus as a function of repeated presentations of that stimulus
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What does social learning theory combine?
Classical and operant conditioning
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What is higher-order conditioning?
Use of an already conditioned stimulus as unconditioned stimulus for the next level and conditioning and eliciting a conditioned response for another stimulus
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What is counter conditioning?
A form of classical conditioning where previously conditioned response is replaced by new response
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What is covert reinforcement?
THe reinforcer is an imagined pleasant event rather than material pleasure
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Covert sensitisation
Reinforcer is an imagined unpleasant consequence to reduce the frequency of undesired behaviour
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What is shaping?
AKA successive approximation Form of operant conditioning where a desirable behaviour pattern is learnt by the successive reinforcement of behaviours closer to the desired one
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What is autokinesis?
Phenomenon that if life is shown from a small dim and fixed light source for an extended period of time it will appear as though it is moving
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What is the phi phenomenon?
False perception of motion is produced by a succession of still images shown with fixed time interval rapidly
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When is depth perception apparent?
2-4 months
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when is 6:6 acuity achieved?
6 months
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What is dichotic listening?
Feeding one message into the left ear and a different message into the right
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What is Triesman's attenuation theory?
Physical characteristics and semantic relevance are used to select one message for full processing while other messages are given partial processing
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What can test selective attention?
Stroop test | Letter cancellation
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What is priming?
A form of learning that occurs without conscious recall of the episode of learning
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What is a test for anterograde memory?
Three words learning task
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Algorithmic method of problem solving
Step-by-step search which guarantees solution but is time consuming
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Heuristic method of problem solving
Uses rules of thumb - more likely solutions tried before others
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Which of the big five personality traits decrease with age?
Neuroticism Extraversion Openness
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Who introduced type A and type B personalities?
Friedman and Rosenman
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Objective personality tests
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Questionnaire Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) NEO Personality Inventory Esyneck personality test (EPQ)
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Projective personality tests
Rorschach inkblot Thematic apperception test Draw-a-person test Sentence completion test
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What level of process thinking does the conscious system operate on?
Secondary
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What is the conscious system?
Part of the mind that is aware
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What is the preconscious system?
Information that is known and can potentially be brought into consciousness
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What is the unconscious system?
Primary process thinking Governed by the pleasure principle No concept of time and denies the existence of negatives

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