Brain Injury/ Amygdala
Who was one of the first case studies to show brain injury can change behaviour?
Phineas Gage
Give one characteristic of XYY syndrome?
Taller than siblings
Severe acne
Lower intelligence
Developmental delays in language & speech
Behavioural difficulties
Physically very active
Who developed Social Learning Theory?
Bandura
Who developed labelling theory
Howard Becker (1963)
Give an example of a non-traumatic brain injury
Stroke
Illness (e.g menigitis)
Cancer
Is XYY side inherited from the Mother or the father's side
Neither - it is a random genetic mutation
What does A.R.RM. stand for?
Attention
Retention
Reproduction
Motivation
What does the Pygmalion effect mean?
We get our self image from the way people see us
60%
Who was Richard Speck?
He raped & murdered 8 women, claimed he was XYY, but in fact wasn't
What is a natural experiment?
It is where the experimenter doesn't manipulate the IV. The IV occurs naturally.
What percentage of 'Wednesday' children were responsible for crimes in Jahoda's study?
22%
In Yang et al.s study how much smaller was the left amygdala in psychopaths compared to controls?
17.1%
What does ARAS stand for (personality theory) and which personality dimension does this refer to?
Ascending Reticular Activating System.
It influences the introversoion-extroversion dimension of Eysenck's PEN personality theory
What does vicarious reinforcement mean?
Learning through seeing others being rewarded or punished for their behaviour
Who coined the phrase 'official bias'?
Besemer et al. (2013)
Explain why evidence from brain scans is not conclusive?
It cannot show us cause and effect, only that a relationship between brain abnormalities and certain behaviours exist.
In Lynn & Martin's study, men scored higher on Psychoticism in how many countries?
34
What University did Bandura carry out his famous Bobo doll experiments.
Stanford University
What did Chambliss find?
Obsrved 2 groups of high school boys. 'Roughnecks' were more likely to be labelled as deviant by the police than boys who were in the 'Saints' group.