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Y2: Psychology: Clinical Classic Study: Rosenhan (1973)

This deck covers the key aspects of Rosenhan's 1973 study on psychiatric diagnosis, including its aims, methods, results, and implications for mental health practices.

Y2: Psychology: Clinical DSM-IV and ICD-10 Reliability and Validity

This deck covers key concepts related to the reliability and validity of diagnosing mental disorders using DSM-IV and ICD-10, including definitions, types, and study findings.

Y2: Psychology: Clinical Diagnosis Classification: DSM-IV

This deck covers the key concepts and features of the DSM-IV, including its structure, diagnostic criteria, and cultural considerations.

Y2: Psychology: Clinical HCPC Guidelines

This deck covers key aspects of the HCPC guidelines for clinical psychologists, including registration requirements, ethical standards, and proficiency statements.

Y2: Psychology: Clinical The Four Ds

This deck covers the key concepts of the 'Four Ds' used in clinical psychology to diagnose abnormal behavior: deviance, distress, dysfunction, and dangerousness. It includes definitions, examples, strengths, and weaknesses of each criterion.

Y2: Psychology: Clinical - Understanding Abnormality

This deck covers key concepts in clinical psychology, focusing on the definition, examples, and challenges of identifying abnormality, as well as the role of clinical psychologists.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: CONTEMP DEBATE PSYCHOSURGERY

Psychosurgery involves altering brain structures to treat severe psychological conditions. Techniques like leucotomy and stereotactic surgery have been used—especially for disorders like schizophrenia—with mixed outcomes. While some patients benefit, risks such as permanent brain damage remain a con...

Positive Psychology: WJEC: CONTEMP DEBATE LOFTUS AND PALMER

Loftus and Palmer’s research explored how leading questions could distort eyewitness memory. Through two experiments using car crash videos, they demonstrated that the phrasing of questions—particularly using different verbs—affected participants' speed estimates and even false memories of broken gl...

Positive Psychology: WJEC: CONTEMP DEBATE Myers and Diener (1995) on happiness

This study investigated what factors influence happiness, examining links between well-being and traits like age, gender, wealth, and relationships. Using self-reports and interviews across various countries, Myers and Diener found that happiness is a stable trait linked to personality—especially hi...

Positive Psychology: WJEC: CONTEMP DEBATE Watson and Raynor

Watson and Rayner’s 1920 study aimed to show how classical conditioning could be used to create a phobia in a human infant. Using Little Albert, they paired a neutral stimulus (a white rat) with a frightening noise to condition a fear response, demonstrating that emotional reactions could be learned...

Positive Psychology: WJEC: CONTEMP DEBATE: Eye Witness Testimony

Cognitive psychologists view memory as a reconstructive process, making eyewitness testimony prone to distortion—especially under stress, suggestion, or in children. Techniques like the cognitive interview help enhance accuracy by minimizing bias and encouraging detailed recall.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: Behaviourist approach

The behaviourist approach views all behaviour as learned through interaction with the environment, emphasizing conditioning (classical and operant) as key learning mechanisms. It treats the mind as a blank slate at birth, drawing parallels between human and animal behaviour to study learning scienti...

Positive Psychology: WJEC: Psychodynamic Approach

The psychodynamic approach, rooted in Freud’s theories, emphasizes the influence of unconscious forces and early childhood experiences on behaviour. It explains mental health issues as results of repressed trauma and describes personality as a dynamic interplay between the id, ego, and superego.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: Cognitive Approach

The cognitive approach focuses on internal mental processes like memory, perception, and problem-solving, aiming to understand how we interpret and respond to the world. It assumes the mind works like a computer and can malfunction through distortions or deficiencies in thinking.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: Biological Approach

This set explores how biology and behaviour are interconnected, highlighting the roles of brain structure, evolution, and biochemical processes. It also covers key brain regions and their functions, showing how biology underpins thought, emotion, and action.

Positive Psychology: WJEC: Positive Approach

Martin Seligman’s positive psychology approach shifted focus from mental illness to understanding human strengths, happiness, and fulfillment. It is grounded in the belief that people have free will, possess inner strengths, and can live meaningful, engaged, and pleasurable lives.

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: 9 Mark Theories

This flashcard set outlines the Multi-Store Model (MSM) of memory, which describes how information moves through sensory memory, short-term memory (STM), and long-term memory (LTM) through attention and rehearsal. It includes key features of each memory store and evaluates the model with supporting ...

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: 9 Mark Studies

This flashcard set outlines Penfield’s research into the temporal lobe and interpretive cortex, conducted using the Montreal procedure on awake epilepsy patients. It explores his findings on memory and emotional experiences and evaluates both strengths—like the precise brain mapping method—and weakn...

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Psychological Problems

This flashcard set covers the incidence of mental health problems, showing how rates have changed over time and how modern living and socioeconomic factors impact mental health. It also highlights cultural variations in beliefs about mental illness, including differing interpretations and culture-bo...

Histology Psychology - Child Development

This deck covers key developmental milestones in children, including motor, social, and verbal skills, as well as cognitive development stages according to Piaget's theory.

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Language, Thought & Communication

This flashcard set outlines Piaget’s theory that language depends on thought, explaining how children's language abilities develop through different cognitive stages. It also explores the concept of schemas and evaluates weaknesses of the theory, including criticisms from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ...

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Development

This flashcard set provides a basic overview of early brain development, describing key brain structures and their functions. It also outlines the roles of nature and nurture in development and explains how factors like smoking during pregnancy can negatively impact brain growth.

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Perception

This flashcard set explains the differences between sensation and perception, and explores key visual processing concepts such as visual cues, constancies, and monocular depth cues, helping to understand how we interpret and make sense of sensory information.

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Social Influence

This flashcard set explores the concept of conformity, focusing on Asch’s classic study on group pressure and its outcomes. It also evaluates the limitations of the study, including how cultural and historical context may affect the results.

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Memory

This flashcard set covers the three core processes of memory—encoding, storage, and retrieval—as well as the three main types of encoding: visual, acoustic, and semantic. Each term is defined in simple terms to aid understanding and memorization.

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Research Methods Part 2

This flashcard set defines essential research terminology used in psychology, including concepts like theory, aim, independent and dependent variables, operationalisation, and hypothesis. It emphasizes the importance of clarity and testability in scientific investigations.

GCSE Psychology (AQA) 2024: Research Methods Part 1

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 10 - Therapy

This deck covers the key ethical standards related to therapy as outlined in the CPLEE Ethics Code, focusing on informed consent, dual relationships, confidentiality, and termination of therapy.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 9 - Assessment

This deck covers key concepts from Ethical Standard 9 of the CPLEE Ethics Code, focusing on assessment practices, informed consent, test data, and the responsibilities of psychologists.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 8 - Research and Publication

This deck covers the key ethical standards for psychologists conducting research and publication, as outlined in the CPLEE Ethics Code. It includes guidelines on informed consent, deception, animal treatment, data reporting, and more.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 7 - Education and Training

This deck covers key ethical standards related to education and training programs for psychologists, focusing on requirements, program descriptions, course outlines, personal information disclosure, therapy participation, feedback, and relationships with students.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 5 - Advertising and Public Statements

This deck covers the ethical standards related to advertising and public statements for psychologists, as outlined in the CPLEE Ethics Code. It includes guidelines on making public statements, responsibilities when promoting practices, and the use of testimonials.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 4 - Privacy and Confidentiality

This deck covers key concepts from Ethical Standard 4 of the CPLEE Ethics Code, focusing on privacy and confidentiality obligations for psychologists.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 3 - Human Relations

This deck covers key ethical standards for psychologists related to human relations, as outlined in the CPLEE Ethics Code. It includes standards on discrimination, harassment, multiple relationships, confidentiality, and professional conduct.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 2 - Competence

This deck covers key concepts from the CPLEE Ethics Code, focusing on Ethical Standard 2 regarding competence. It includes questions and answers about the boundaries of competence, necessary training, and appropriate actions in various professional scenarios.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Ethical Standard 1 - Resolving Ethical Issues

This deck covers the key ethical standards for resolving ethical issues as outlined in the CPLEE Ethics Code. It includes questions and answers on misuse, conflicts with law, organizational demands, ethical violations, and more.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Five General Principles

This deck covers the five general principles of the CPLEE Ethics Code, focusing on the core values and responsibilities of psychologists.

CPLEE Sample Questions: Deck 1

This flashcard set covers sample questions from the California Psychology Law and Ethics Exam (CPLEE), focusing on ethical decision-making, legal responsibilities, and risk assessment in clinical scenarios. Each card provides a multiple-choice question with a rationale for the correct answer to enha...

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Preamble

This deck covers key concepts from the Preamble of the CPLEE Ethics Code, focusing on the goals and responsibilities of psychologists.

CPLEE The Ethics Code: Introduction

This deck covers key concepts from the introduction to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct by the APA, including its adoption, structure, applicability, and implications for psychologists.

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