AQA Psychology - Research Methods - Types of Experiment

Psychologie du Développement

Ce jeu de cartes couvre les concepts clés, l'histoire, et les méthodes de la psychologie du développement, y compris les contributions de figures influentes et les théories du développement.

2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology: Psychopathology: The Cognitive Explanation

These flashcards explore how the cognitive approach explains depression as being linked to internal mental processes. They clarify that negative and irrational thoughts don’t directly cause depression but instead increase vulnerability to it, as proposed by cognitive psychologists Ellis and Beck.

2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology: Psychopathology: The Behavioural, Emotional

These flashcards describe the three main categories of psychological characteristics — behavioural, cognitive, and emotional — and identify specific behavioural and cognitive symptoms of depression, such as disrupted sleep or eating patterns, poor concentration, negative thinking patterns, and black-and-white thinking.

2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology: Psychopathology: The Behavioural Treatments Of Phobias

These flashcards explain behavioural methods used to treat phobias, including systematic desensitisation and flooding. They highlight how these therapies use classical conditioning principles to help individuals unlearn maladaptive responses by breaking the association between the conditioned stimulus and the fear response.

2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology: Psychopathology: The Behavioural Explanation Of Phobias

These flashcards outline how the behaviourist approach explains phobias as learned behaviours. They describe the two-process model, which involves classical and operant conditioning, showing how fear responses are acquired through association and maintained through reinforcement.

2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology - Research Methods: Sampling Techniques - KU

A Target Population is the large group of individuals that a researcher is interested in studying. It represents everyone who fits the criteria for the research, from which a smaller sample is usually selected for the actual study.