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Developmental Psychology - Prenatal Part 1

This deck covers key concepts in prenatal development, including genetic processes, types of twins, and various genetic syndromes.

Cognitive Psychology Chapter XII - Decision Making I

This deck covers key concepts from cognitive psychology related to decision making, including theories, heuristics, biases, and reasoning processes.

Psychobiology: Y2 LCRS 2: Individual Differences

This flashcard set outlines the three main theories of personality: Freud’s psychoanalytic model (Id, Ego, Superego), Eysenck’s trait theory (Neuroticism and Extraversion), and the Big Five model (OCEAN), which describes five broad dimensions of personality traits commonly used in psychological asse...

Cognitive Psychology Chapter XI - Problem Solving I

This deck covers key concepts from Chapter XI of Cognitive Psychology, focusing on problem-solving strategies, types of problems, mental sets, and creativity.

Psychological - Lecture 11 - Forensic Testing (DN)

A forensic neuropsychologist must demonstrate a causative link between an individual’s cognitive impairment and the event in question, providing objective evidence for legal or judicial purposes.

Psychobiology: Y2 LCRS 2: Coping with Treatment

This flashcard set defines stress and explores how it applies to hospitalisation, highlighting the psychological demands patients face. It introduces the dual process hypothesis, which supports providing both procedural and sensory information before medical interventions, and outlines two main copi...

Psychobiology: Y2 LCRS 2: Developmental Psychology

This flashcard set explains the roles of nature and nurture in development, defining temperament as an innate trait. It introduces the concept of reciprocal socialisation and outlines key stages in the development of attachment during infancy, including the emergence of stranger anxiety and secure b...

Psychological - Lecture 10 - Neuropsychological Assessment (DN)

Neuropsychology has two main fields: Experimental Neuropsychology, which studies brain-behavior relationships through research, and Clinical Neuropsychology, which assesses and treats cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of brain dysfunction in individuals.

Psychobiology: Y2 LCRS 2: Attention and Perception

This flashcard set defines sensation and perception, highlighting how we detect and interpret sensory information. It explains the difference between bottom-up and top-down processing, and introduces perceptual schemas as mental frameworks that shape how we perceive stimuli.

Psychobiology: Y2 LCRS 2: Health Beliefs and Behaviour

This set of flashcards explores the concept of health behaviour, particularly how education influences it. It highlights key theories like the Expectancy-Value model and references research (e.g. Nutbeam's study) showing that while education may increase knowledge, it doesn't always change behaviour...

Psychobiology: Y2 LCRS 2: Learning Theory

This set of flashcards introduces the foundational concepts of classical conditioning, including key terms such as unconditioned and conditioned stimuli and responses, as well as principles like stimulus generalization and discrimination. It helps learners understand how associations between stimuli...

Cognitive Psychology Chapter X Language in Context II

This deck covers key concepts from Chapter X of Cognitive Psychology, focusing on language in context, including speech acts, indirect speech, aphasia, and language in nonhuman animals.

Psychological - DN a Few Extras

A Specific Learning Disability (SLD) is a disorder affecting one or more basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, whether spoken or written. It can impact skills like reading, writing, or speaking despite normal intelligence.

Cognitive Psychology Chapter X: Language in Context I

This deck covers key concepts from cognitive psychology related to language, including linguistic relativity, bilingualism, pidgins and creoles, metaphors, and pragmatics.

Psychological - Lecture 6 (DN) Almost Done!

This means personal scores may change due to development, environment, or other factors, despite overall group stability.

Cognitive Psychology Chapter VI Memory Processes II (250)

This deck covers key concepts from Chapter VI of Cognitive Psychology, focusing on memory processes, including the serial-position curve, memory distortions, and encoding specificity.

Psychological - Incomplete AJ

Individual IQ scores can fluctuate, especially in early childhood, but group IQ scores remain relatively stable over time.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: Criminality

This deck covers key concepts in criminality, focusing on the definitions of actus reus and mens rea.

Cognitive Psychology Chapter VI: Memory Processes I

This deck covers key concepts in memory processes, including encoding, storage, retrieval, rehearsal, and interference theories.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: AS and A2 Psychology Terms Part 3

These flashcards cover fundamental psychological and research concepts such as mode in statistics, natural experiments, and naturalistic observation, as well as key scientific ideas like natural selection, negative correlation, and the field of neuroscience—the study of the brain and nervous system.

Psychological - Chapter 8 Test Development

A biased test item unfairly favors one group of examinees over another, even when both groups have the same ability level. Such bias can distort test results and reduce fairness and validity in assessment.

Cognitive Psychology Chapter V: Memory II

This deck covers key concepts from Chapter V of Cognitive Psychology, focusing on memory systems, types of memory, and related neurological processes.

Psychological - Lecture 4 -Learning Objectives (DN)

Important principles of item analysis include evaluating each test item for difficulty, discrimination, and reliability. This process helps identify which questions effectively measure learning objectives and which need revision or removal.

Cognitive Psychology Chapter V Memory I

This deck covers key concepts from Chapter V of Cognitive Psychology, focusing on memory. It includes definitions, models, and theories related to memory processes.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: AS and A2 Psychology Terms Part 2

Cognitive Psychology: The Nature of Attention and Consciousness II

This deck covers key concepts in cognitive psychology related to attention and consciousness, including habituation, automatization, and the Stroop effect.

Cognitive Psychology: The Nature of Attention and Consciousness

This deck covers key concepts in cognitive psychology, focusing on attention and consciousness. It includes definitions, theories, and brain structures involved in attention processes.

Cognitive Psychology Glossary Rest

This deck covers key terms and concepts in cognitive psychology, focusing on definitions and explanations of various cognitive processes and structures.

Cognitive Psychology Glossary T

This deck covers key terms and concepts in cognitive psychology, providing definitions and explanations for important topics.

Cognitive Psychology Glossary S II

This deck covers key terms and concepts in cognitive psychology, focusing on structuralism, intelligence models, probability, utility, and language structure.

Psychological - Lecture 3 Test Development (Catherine)

The five stages of test development are Test Conceptualisation, Construction, Try Out, Item Analysis, and Revision. These stages ensure that a test is well-designed, reliable, valid, and accurately measures what it intends to assess.

Cognitive Psychology Glossary S I

This deck covers key concepts and terms in cognitive psychology, focusing on definitions and explanations of various cognitive processes and theories.

Cognitive Psychology Glossary R

This deck covers key terms and concepts from cognitive psychology, focusing on definitions and explanations related to memory, perception, and reasoning.

Cognitive Psychology Chapter IX Language III

This deck covers key concepts in cognitive psychology related to language, including transformational grammar, dyslexia, and lexical access.

Psychological - Chapters 9 and 10 Tests of Intelligence Part 3

The Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) is a brief version of the Wechsler test with satisfactory psychometric reliability.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: AS and A2 Psychology Terms Part 1

These flashcards define key psychological terms including the impact of age on eyewitness accuracy, the nature of aggression and anxiety, and the use of antidepressants and antipsychotics in treating mental disorders. They also touch on the importance of clearly stating the aim in any research proje...

Psychological - Chapters 9 and 10 Tests of Intelligence Part 2

It provides a comprehensive assessment of cognitive abilities across ages.

Cognitive Psychology: Language and Speech Perception

This deck covers key concepts from Chapter IX of Cognitive Psychology, focusing on language and speech perception, including theories, grammar, and notable studies.

Psychological - Chapters 9 and 10 Tests of Intelligence Part 1

A test’s appeal depends on seven key factors: the underlying theory, ease of administration, scoring, and interpretation, the adequacy of norms, the reliability and validity levels, and its overall utility in terms of cost versus benefit.

Cognitive Psychology Glossary K + L + M

This deck covers key terms and concepts from cognitive psychology, focusing on terms starting with the letters K, L, and M. It includes definitions and explanations of important psychological phenomena and theories.

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