Psychology flashcards

What this deck covers

• Unit 3: Individual Behaviour (27 cards, 9 dot points)

  • Behaviours Not Dependent on Learning - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Biological Bases of Behaviour - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (2)
  • Cognitive Learning - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Consciousness, Sleep and Dreaming - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Data Analysis and Statistics - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Forgetting and Memory Reliability - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (4)
  • History and Approaches in Psychology - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Learning and Memory - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Research Methods in Psychology - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
• Unit 4: Social and Developmental Psychology (16 cards, 5 dot points)

  • Developmental Psychology - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Prosocial Behaviour and Aggression - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (4)
  • Psychological Health and Wellbeing - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Social Psychology - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)
  • Theories of Personality - TCE Psychology (Tasmania) (3)

Sample cards from this deck

1. Definition

   Behaviours Not Dependent on Learning - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Reflex

   An innate, automatic and involuntary response to a particular stimulus, occurring the same way every time and not changed by experience, such as withdrawing your hand from a hot surface.

2. Definition

   Developmental Psychology - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Object permanence

   The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard or touched, which Piaget said develops in the sensorimotor stage.

3. Definition

   Cognitive Learning - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Insight learning

   A form of cognitive learning in which a solution to a problem appears suddenly and completely, through internal reorganisation of the problem rather than through gradual trial-and-error reinforcement.

4. Definition

   Prosocial Behaviour and Aggression - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Altruism

   Helping behaviour carried out for the benefit of another person with no expectation of personal reward, and sometimes at a cost to the helper, distinguishing it from helping motivated by self-interest.

5. Definition

   Consciousness, Sleep and Dreaming - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Altered state of consciousness

   A state of awareness that is distinctly different from normal waking consciousness in level of awareness, perception, thinking, emotion, time orientation or self-control, such as sleep or a drug-induced state.

6. Definition

   Psychological Health and Wellbeing - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Biopsychosocial model

   A model that explains mental health and disorder as the result of interacting biological factors (genes, brain chemistry), psychological factors (thoughts, learning) and social factors (relationships, culture, stress).

7. Definition

   Data Analysis and Statistics - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Descriptive versus inferential statistics

   Descriptive statistics summarise and describe a data set (averages, spread, graphs). Inferential statistics use sample data to draw conclusions about a wider population and to judge whether a result is likely due to chance.

8. Definition

   Social Psychology - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Conformity

   A change in a person's behaviour or beliefs as a result of real or imagined group pressure, often to fit in or because the group is seen as a source of information.

9. Definition

   Forgetting and Memory Reliability - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

   Define Cue-dependent forgetting

   Forgetting that occurs because the cues present when information was learned are absent at the time of recall. The memory is intact but inaccessible; providing the right cue (a place, mood or smell) can trigger recall.

10. Definition

    Theories of Personality - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)

    Define The id, ego and superego

    In Freud's model, the id seeks immediate gratification of basic drives, the superego enforces moral standards, and the ego mediates between them and reality. Personality reflects how these three forces are balanced.