Memory
"This model of memory includes sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory."
What is the Multi-Store Model?
This researcher developed the Strange Situation to identify types of attachment.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
This is the term for a prediction that can be tested in a psychological study.
What is a hypothesis?
This approach in psychology focuses on observable behavior and learning through reinforcement
What is the behaviourist approach?
You are doing an experiment with independent groups and collecting nominal data- what date test should you use
Chi Squared
This phenomenon occurs when witnesses discuss an event with each other after it happens, which can distort their memories."
What is post-event discussion?
Bowlby proposed that infants form one special emotional bond. This is called what?
What is monotropy?
This type of experiment takes place in a natural environment but without control over extraneous variables
What is a field experiment?
This approach believes that mental processes should be studied scientifically and includes models like the information processing model.
What is the cognitive approach?
This ethical guideline requires participants to be fully informed about a study before agreeing to take part
What is informed consent?
"According to the Working Memory Model, this component handles auditory information."
What is the phonological loop?
This term refers to the mental representation of a child's first attachment that forms a template for future relationships.
What is the internal working model?
This method involves studying one person or a small group in depth
What is a case study?
The biological approach assumes behaviour is influenced by these two key factors.
What are genes and neurochemistry?
According to Beck’s cognitive theory, depression is linked to this negative framework about the self, the world, and the future
What is the negative triad?
This explanation of forgetting states that memory retrieval is better when the external context matches the one at encoding."
What is context-dependent forgetting?
Rutter’s study of Romanian orphans highlighted these 4 symptoms of institutionalisation.
Low IQ
Quasi-autism
emotional development- affectionless psychopathy
disinhibited attachment
This statistical measure shows the average of a data set.
What is the mean?
According to Freud, this part of the mind contains desires and memories we're unaware of.
What is the unconscious?
One strength of the biological explanation for OCD is that it has real-world application in the development of these treatments
What are drug therapies (e.g. SSRIs)?
"Loftus and Palmer’s research on leading questions supports this idea about the reliability of memory.
What is the reconstructive nature of memory?/ Bartlett
This concept explains how some children form attachments outside the critical period but still develop normally.
What is the sensitive period?
If you are doing a correlational study and are collecting ordinal data what inferential test are you going to use
What is Spearman's rho
Maslow and Rogers are associated with this approach, which emphasises free will and self-actualisation
What is the humanistic approach?
This ethical issue arises when research findings have the potential to harm groups in society or reinforce stereotypes
What is socially sensitive research?