Brain/Learn
Identify the division of the Autonomic Nervous System.
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic NS
Determine the three stores found in the multi-store model of memory.
Sensory, STM & LTM
In Milgram’s obedience experiment, what percentage of participants delivered the maximum voltage (450V)?
65%
"They helped me last week, so I should help them today" demonstrates this concept.
Reciprocity Principle
This is the fictional town where Gilmore Girls is primarily set.
Stars Hollow
Describe Vicarious Conditioning.
Watching someone else receive a consequence and subsequently changing your own behaviour due to this observation
The process by which sensory receptors convert environmental energy into neural signals.
Transduction
A group of friends all say the answer to a question is 'B.' Even though you think it’s 'C,' you agree with them. Which concept explains this behaviour and which mandatory study shows this?
Conformity
Asch's Line Study
Define prejudice and discrimination, highlighting their difference.
Prejudice = negative attitude; Discrimination = negative behaviour based on group membership
Billie Eilish's middle name is surprisingly the same as this dangerous activity.
Pirate
Describe the difference between positive reinforcement and positive punishment.
PR = something is added to INCREASE a behaviour
PR = something is added to DECREASE a behaviour
Before reaching the primary visual cortex, visual information undergoes preliminary processing in this structure.
Thalamus
After getting an A, a student says, "I'm really smart." After getting a D, they say, "That test was unfair." What is this called?
Self-Serving Bias
Sustained intergroup contact is particularly effective at reducing prejudice when it includes equality of status, mutual interdependence and this type of shared objective.
Superordinate Goals
The word "stan", now meaning an extremely devoted fan, originated from a 2000 song by this rapper.
Eminem
Describe the interaction between Broca's Area, Wernicke's Area and Geschwind's Territory.
Wernicke's area processes and comprehends language (meaning), while Geschwind's territory helps integrate language information and facilitates communication between language-processing regions. This information can then be communicated to Broca's area, which is involved in planning and producing an appropriate spoken response (production).
Student A spends three hours studying Psychology the night before an exam and repeatedly rereads their notes. Student B studies for 30 minutes across six days and regularly explains concepts in their own words.
Identify two memory strategies that would predict better retention for Student B and why?
Spacing = Student B allows study over time
Elaborative Rehearsal = Makes meaning out of the information
One famous social psychology study investigated how assigned social positions could influence behaviour. However, later criticisms have raised concerns about demand characteristics, data collection and participants' experiences.
Identify the study and the psychological concepts it was originally used to investigate.
Status, Roles & Power
After ending a relationship, Ava spends time constructing her own explanation of why the relationship failed and tells friends her version of what happened. Months later, she reflects on what she learned from the experience and begins preparing herself for future relationships.
Identify the two stages of Rollie and Duck's phase model, in order.
Grave-dressing & Resurrection
Abel Tesfaye is the real name of this hugely successful Canadian musician.
The Weeknd
A child is bitten by a large black dog and later develops fear whenever they see a large dog. After repeated safe interactions with large dogs, the fear gradually disappears. Several months later, the child unexpectedly experiences fear when seeing another large black dog.
Identify the three learning processes, in order, demonstrated after the original fear was acquired.
Stimulus Generalisation, Extinction, Spontaneous Recovery
Two participants receive exactly the same visual sensory information but report perceiving different objects. Explain why this finding provides evidence that perception involves more than sensation.
Sensation involves receiving and transmitting sensory information, whereas perception involves organising and interpreting that information. Psychological factors such as perceptual set can therefore cause the same sensory input to be interpreted differently.
Mia believes environmentally friendly behaviour is very important but regularly buys disposable products because they are convenient. She begins feeling uncomfortable about the inconsistency, so she tells herself that "one person's choices don't really affect the environment anyway."
What psychological theory explains Mia's discomfort, and what has she changed to reduce it?
Cognitive Dissonance
She modified her belief to reduce the inconsistency
After receiving an insulting message online, Liam is already tired and frustrated. He interprets the message as deliberately hostile and responds aggressively. Similar interactions happen repeatedly over several months, and aggressive responses become an increasingly common way for Liam to deal with conflict.
Using the General Aggression Model, explain how the single episode could lead to Liam's aggressive response and predict how multiple episodes could influence his future behaviour.
In the single episode, situational factors (the insulting message) and personal factors (tiredness/frustration) influence Liam's internal state and his appraisal of the situation, increasing the likelihood of an aggressive response. Across multiple episodes, repeated aggressive interactions can strengthen aggression-related knowledge structures and behavioural patterns, increasing the likelihood of aggression in future situations.
The "A" in the abbreviation "ASMR" stands for this word.
Autonomous