PSYCHOLOGY

Why to use scientific method - Answer Reduces Various bias (puts distance between researcher and participant) and helps to provide better theories (can be rested against and holds strong ) Hindsight bias - Answer - "I knew it all along" - Make sense of anything with info we already have - Know what happens after it happens present/present bias - Answer We only consider the evidence that is currently present and not anything that isn't Ex: someone stops in the middle of the inte...

What is the takeaway from the baby head-turning experiment? - Answer Babies turned their neck, working harder to see a face on a paddle over random designs. Suggests babies have a preference for human faces, are ready to form relationships What is the still-face paradigm? - Answer -Mom's don a neutral express and stop interacting -Babies respond by doing everything they can to reignite the social interaction, eventually cry takeaway: babies not only want to be near with caregivers, th...

What is the medical model correct answer: This model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. Diagnosis correct answer: involves distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology correct answer: Refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis correct answer: A forecast about the probable course of an illness. Deviance correct answer: people are often said to have a disorder because their behavior deviates from wha...

Activation Synthesis Theory - The theory suggesting that we turn random neural signals into dreams is _____ theory. a. Freudian b. the information processing c. the preserving neural pathways d. the activation synthesis information processing - Hahn tells his friends that he needs to go to sleep after their study session rather than studying all night because sleeping will help to consolidate his memory of what he learned. Hahn is a proponent of the _____ theory of sleep. a. evolutionar...

These documents are psychology notes from last year.

A-level PSYCHOLOGY 7182/1 Paper 1 Introductory topics in psychology Mark scheme June 2021 Version: 1.0 Final Mark Scheme Level of response marking instructions Level of response mark schemes are broken down into levels, each of which has a descriptor. The descriptor for the level shows the average performance for the level. There are marks in each level. Before you apply the mark scheme to a student’s answer read through the answer and annotate it (as instructed) to show the quali...

A-level PSYCHOLOGY 7182/1 Paper 1 Introductory topics in psychology Mark scheme June 2021 Version: 1.0 Final Mark Scheme Level of response marking instructions Level of response mark schemes are broken down into levels, each of which has a descriptor. The descriptor for the level shows the average performance for the level. There are marks in each level. Before you apply the mark scheme to a student’s answer read through the answer and annotate it (as instructed) to show the quali...