Biological
A part of the brain responsible for transferring short term memory to long term memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
The tendency/effect of remembering the first bit of information taught/given.
This theory states that we learn from observing other people.
What is the Social Cognitive Theory?
What is the best way to start an SAQ
Answering the question in the first paragraph.
Sample sizes are necessary to remember for this essay. True or False.
False.
One of the most common techniques used to study the brain prior to brain imaging technology.
What are case studies?
A model of memory that breaks SHORT TERM memory up into the phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer, and central executive.
What is the Working Memory Model?
Describe a study about conformity.
Asch Conformity, Milgram Experiment, Abrams et al, etc.
About how long should the SAQ be?
350-500 words.
What acronym is suggested to use for the 2nd & 3rd paragraphs?
PEELE: Point, Explain, Evidence, Link, Evaluate.
A study that split non-juggling participants up into two groups and only taught one group how to juggle found through MRI scans that the group who learned how to juggle had an increase in grey matter in their mid-temporal lobe. After three months of no juggling, the same participants' grey matter decreased. What happened?
Synaptic Pruning
Mental representations that are derived from prior experience or knowledge.
What are Schema?
Give an example of the Social Cognitive Theory.
Bashing Bobo
Kymball
etc.
How many examples of a theory/study/concept should you provide?
What analysis technique should be used for Paragraph 4?
TEACUP, 2 of the parts.
The Wedekind study found that "women scored male body odors as more pleasant when they differed from their own MHC than when they were more similar". This example of mating selection is an example of what?
Natural Selection
A decision making model that describes two basic modes of thinking.
What is the Dual Processing Model?
This theory states that humans have a "personal self" and "social selves" for different groups.
What is the Social Identity Theory?
Procedure and Results.
What must be done for the introduction of the ERQ?
Briefly describe the key concept & state your position which addresses the question.
In genetic research, a gene variation of a certain neurotransmitter is linked with depression. Low levels of this neurotransmitter causes difficulty in coping with stress. What is this neurotransmitter?
Neuropeptide Y
Give a limitation of the Multi-Store Memory Model.
Over-simplified, doesn't explain memory distortion, no deep explanation/analysis about rehearsal, etc.
People's tendencies to overestimate relationships between two groups when distinctive and unusual information is presented.
What is illusory correlation?
If the question asks about the role of an antagonist, do you need to define antagonist?
Yes, this demonstrates understanding.
What are the 3 key parts of the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs?
Describing the aim, procedure, and results of a study, while also connecting the research to your argument, and evaluating the strengths and limitations of the same study.