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Who was Wundt? (5 Key Facts)
What is introspection?
What are the two evaluations of Wundt?
What is reliability?
Psychology started as a science when a group of researchers began to believe that human behaviour should be studied scientifically.
What is this called?
What is determinism?
What is predictability?
In psychology, what is being objective?
What does systematic mean?
What does replicable mean?
Strengths of the scientific approach (evaluation points).
Weaknesses of the scientific approach (evaluation points).
What are the 3 main theories in learning approaches?
What is classical conditioning?
What is operant conditioning?
Evaluation of classical conditioning.
Evaluation of operant conditioning.
What was Pavlov's experiment/research into classical conditioning?
What is UCS, UCR, NEUTRAL, CS & CR?
Explain extinction and stimulus generalisation?
What was Skinner's research/experiment into operant conditioning?
What is positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement?
What is punishment?
Evaluation points of the research by Pavlov and Skinner(positive and negative).
Explain social learning theory.
What is the role of mediational processes?
What are the mediational processes?
List the positive evaluations for social learning theory with the mediational processes.
List the negative evaluations for social learning theory.
What was Bandura's 1961 research?
List the strengths of Bandura's 1961 Bobo doll research.
List the weaknesses of Bandura's 1961 Bobo doll research.
What is the cognitive approach?
What do cognitive psychologists believe?
There are 3 types of model described in the section about cognitive psychology, what are these?
What is the theoretical model (with an example)?
What is the computer model (with an example)?
What is a schema model (with an example)?
What do neuroscientists do?
Name two types of scanning machines and what they do.
List the strengths of the cognitive approach.
List the criticisms of the cognitive approach.
Describe the research into schemas (War of the Ghosts).
Define distortion, assimilation, leveling and sharpening.
Outline the weaknesses of Bartlett's study.
Outline the strengths of Bartlett's study.
What is the biological approach?
What are genes?
Define genotype and phenotype.
What is the genetic basis of behaviour?
Define nature and nurture.
List information on the biological structure of the brain.
List information on the biological structure of neurons and the nervous system.
In neurochemistry, what are the body's chemical messengers?
What are neurotransmitters?
What are hormones?
What are evolutionary approaches?
What are the strengths of the biological approach(at least 3)?
What is the weakness of the biological approach?
