Sheet 4 mock revision- JW
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- Created on: 19-02-20 11:41
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- Sheet 4 mock revision
- Outline the behaviourist approach
- Blank slate, Tabular Rosa
- Pavlov's dog
- Classical conditioning
- Association
- UCS-UCR, NS, CS-CR
- Generalised
- Law of contiguity
- Evaluate the behaviourist approack
- Practical application, systematic desensitisation and flooding (phobias)
- Environmentally determinst, gives clear predictions e.g Little Albert
- Also means it lacks a full understanding of interactionsim
- Only considers nurture, not a full understanding of interactionsim
- Many of the experiments were conducted on animals, can't extrapolate results to humans
- Key research for cognitive neuroscience
- Eleanor Maguire
- Aim: to examine whether structural changes could be detected in the brains of people with extensive experience of spatial navigation
- Method: structural MRI scans obtained. 16 right handed male taxi drivers (driving for over 1.5 years)
- Result 1: Increased grey matter found in the left and right hippocampi after being compared with a control group
- Result 2: changes with navigation experience, correlation between amount time spent driving and volume in the right posterior hippocampus
- Conclusion, extensive practive with spatial navigation affects the hippocampus
- What is the mean, what is a strength and weakness of using it?
- The average- figured out by adding up all the digits and dividing by the number there are
- Accurate, sensitive measure of the mean, includes all scores
- may be influenced by anomolies
- name the 4 definitions of abnormality
- Deviation from social norms
- deviation of ideal mental health
- failure to function adequately
- statistical infrequency
- Name and outline the treatment for depression
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- 1.patient as a scientist, working out a solution
- 2.keeping a diary
- 3.reality testing against what was written in the diary
- 4.disputing
- 5.practical steps
- 6.behaviour changes
- 7. small goals
- what are schemas
- cognitive frameworks
- help us to organise and interpret information
- developed through experience
- what is an advantage of using repeated measures
- reduces participant variables
- age and gender
- Outline the behaviourist approach
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