OCR GCSE Psychology Studies and Applications Unit 1

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What is Androgyny?
A set of behaviours that include high levels of both masculine and feminine characteristics.
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What is Femininity?
The behaviours and ideas that are considered to be a characteristic of being female. It is also an example of sex typing.
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What is Gender Identity?
The psychological status of being a male or a female, including an awareness of which gender you consider yourself to be.
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What is Masculinity?
The behaviours and ideas that are considered to be a characteristic of being male. It is an example of sex typing.
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What is Sex Identity?
The biological status of being a male or a female.
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What is Encoding (Input)?
The processing of information in such a way that it can be represented internally for memory storage.
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What is Retrieval (Output)?
The ability to get information from our memory system in order to use it.
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What is Storage?
The memory system's ability to keep information that we can then use again if necessary.
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What is Attachment Bond?
A long-enduring, emotionally meaningful tie to a particular individual.
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What is Critical Period?
A biologically determined period of time during which infants are especially ready to form an attachment. Bowlby believed that if the attachment is not formed during that time, it is unlikely to be formed at all.
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What is Deprivation?
A situation in which a child experiences the loss or breaking of an already formed attachment relationship.
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What is Insecure-Ambivalent Attachment?
An insecure attachment style characterised by behaviours such as clinging to the primary caregiver and extreme distress on seperation from the primary caregiver.
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What is Insecure-Avoidant Attachment?
An insecure attachment syle characterised by behaviours that avoid contact with the primary caregiver.
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What is Maternal Deprivation?
The breaking of the monotropic bond during early childhood.
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What is Monotropy?
An innate tendency to form an attachment to one specific individual. This type of attachment is different from all others and much stronger.
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What is Privation?
A situation in which a child has never had the opportunity to form an attachment relationship.
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What is Secure Attachment?
A style of attachment that is formed when caregivers respond sensitively to the infant's needs.
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What is Separation Protest?
The distress that young children experience when they are seperated from their primary caregiver.
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What is Stranger Anxiety?
The distress that young children experience when they are exposed to people who are unfamiliar to them.
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What is Defiance?
A desire to resist the demands of authority and not do as one is told.
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What is Denial (or diffusion) of Responsibility?
The feeling that one is less answerable for one's behaviour because there are other people around. Any "responsibility" is shared so that no individual feels responsible.
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What is Obedience?
Behaving in a certain way in response to the demands of an authority figure.
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