Psychology flashcards
112 QCE Psychology cards across 4 modules (49 definitions, 52 key facts, 11 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.
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What this deck covers
Unit 1: Individual development (12 cards, 3 dot points)
- Neuroplasticity: developmental and adaptive plasticity, synaptic change and recovery from injury (QCE Psychology Unit 1) (4)
- Piaget's stages of cognitive development: schemas, assimilation and the four stages (QCE Psychology Unit 1) (4)
- Vygotsky's sociocultural theory: the zone of proximal development and scaffolding (QCE Psychology Unit 1) (4)
Unit 2: Individual behaviour (12 cards, 3 dot points)
- Diagnosis and classification: normality, abnormality and the DSM in diagnosing disorders (QCE Psychology Unit 2) (4)
- Emotional intelligence: the four-branch ability model, mixed models and measurement (QCE Psychology Unit 2) (4)
- Theories of intelligence: general intelligence, multiple intelligences and IQ testing (QCE Psychology Unit 2) (4)
Unit 3: Individual thinking (39 cards, 9 dot points)
- Brain trauma and neurological disorders: acquired brain injury, aphasia and recovery (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (4)
- Localisation of brain function: lobes, hemispheres and the cognitive evidence (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (4)
- Neurotransmission, the seven named neurotransmitters, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (5)
- Perceptual set, Gestalt principles, depth cues and visual constancies (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (5)
- Seeing and hearing: from reception to the primary cortex, loudness, pitch and timbre, and cultural influences (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (5)
- The nervous system, monosynaptic and polysynaptic reflexes, the brain regions of voluntary movement, and the limbic system and prefrontal cortex in emotion (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (5)
- Theories of learning: classical, operant and observational learning of behaviour (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (4)
- Three models of memory (multi-store, working memory, levels of processing) and the brain structures of memory (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (4)
- Types of long-term memory, recall versus recognition versus relearning, forgetting, and strategies to improve memory (QCE Psychology Unit 3) (3)
Unit 4: The influence of others (49 cards, 11 dot points)
- Attitudes and attitude change: the tri-component model, cognitive dissonance and persuasion (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (4)
- Attraction (Buss et al., 1990; proximity, reciprocity, similarity, self-disclosure) and Rollie and Duck's phase model of relationship dissolution (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (5)
- Attributions, the fundamental attribution error, self-serving and confirmation biases, stereotypes and stereotype priming (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (5)
- Cognition and emotion in groups: groupthink, deindividuation and the bystander effect (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (4)
- Conformity and obedience: social influence, Asch, Milgram and situational factors (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (4)
- Immigration, acculturation, culture shock, implicit and explicit racism, and reducing prejudice through intergroup contact (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (5)
- Primary and secondary socialisation, and social learning, cognitive developmental and biological theories of gender role formation (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (5)
- Prosocial and antisocial behaviour: helping, the bystander effect and aggression (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (4)
- Sense of community, culture, individualism and collectivism, and multiculturalism versus pluralism (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (4)
- Social identity, stereotyping and prejudice: Tajfel, in-group bias and reducing conflict (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (5)
- Status and power: social roles, the bases of power and the Stanford prison experiment (QCE Psychology Unit 4) (4)
Sample cards from this deck
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Define Accommodation
Changing a schema, or creating a new one, when new information does not fit. Learning that the cat is not a dog forces the schema to change.
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Define Deviation from social norms
Behaviour that violates a society's unwritten rules is abnormal. This is culturally and historically relative, and risks pathologising harmless difference.
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Define Non-traumatic (internal) brain injury
Caused by internal events such as a stroke (interrupted blood supply), tumour, infection (encephalitis), oxygen deprivation, or a degenerative disease such as Alzheimer's.
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Define Affective
The feelings or emotions toward the object (I feel anxious about exams).
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Define Private speech
Around ages 3 to 7, children talk aloud to themselves to guide their own behaviour while solving problems. This is not aimless; it is thinking made audible.
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Define Perceiving emotions
Accurately identifying emotions in faces, voices, art and yourself. This is the foundational branch.
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Define Frontal lobe
Higher-order thinking, planning, decision-making, voluntary movement (the motor cortex sits along its rear strip) and personality. It contains Broca's area (usually left hemisphere), which controls speech production.
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Define Evidence for a biological (evolutionary) explanation
Across cultures there were consistent sex differences: men valued physical attractiveness in a mate more than women did, and women valued good earning potential more than men did. The authors argued that these support evolution-based hypotheses: physical attractiveness (and youth) signal reproductive value, and resources support the survival of offspring, so these preferences would have increased reproductive success. Because they appear in very different cultures, they are unlikely to be purely learnt.
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Define Migration
Neurons move to their final positions in the developing brain.
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Define Reliability
Reliability is consistency: a test is reliable if it gives similar results on retesting (test-retest reliability) or across its items (internal consistency). Major IQ tests are highly reliable.