Psychology flashcards

What this deck covers

• Unit 3: Memory and learning (81 cards, 22 dot points)

  • Attention and the Cocktail party effect: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (5)
  • Attitudes and social cognition: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (3)
  • Attribution theory and biases: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (3)
  • Behaviour modification: systematic desensitisation and token economies (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3) (5)
  • Biological bases of behaviour: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (2)
  • Brain plasticity and neuroplasticity: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (3)
  • Brain structures in memory formation: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (4)
  • Causes of memory loss: CTE, Alzheimer's disease and Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3) (2)
  • Classical conditioning: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (5)
  • Cognitive dissonance: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (3)
  • Data collection, analysis and evaluation (science inquiry): WACE Year 12 Psychology (5)
  • Forgetting: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (4)
  • Levels of processing and Craik and Tulving (1975): WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (5)
  • Models of memory: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (2)
  • Observational learning and social learning theory: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (5)
  • Operant conditioning: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (5)
  • Recall, recognition and relearning: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (3)
  • Rehearsal and the forgetting curve: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (5)
  • Research methods (science inquiry): WACE Year 12 Psychology (4)
  • Sensation and perception: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (2)
  • The brain and hemispheric specialisation: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (3)
  • Theories of learning compared: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3 (3)
• Unit 4: Motivation, wellbeing and health (75 cards, 26 dot points)

  • Attachment theory: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Conformity: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Cross-cultural psychology: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Culture and community (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4) (5)
  • Developmental psychology (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4) (4)
  • Erikson and nature versus nurture: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Ethics in psychological research: WACE Year 12 Psychology (2)
  • General Adaptation Syndrome (Selye): WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (2)
  • Group influence: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Health consequences of stress and coping strategies: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Maslow's hierarchy of needs: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (2)
  • Models of wellbeing (Diener, 1984; Ryff, 1989): WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Obedience: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Piaget's cognitive development: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Prejudice and intergroup relations: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Prosocial behaviour and the bystander effect: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • Purpose of sleep: evolutionary and restorative theories (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4) (2)
  • Self-determination theory (Deci and Ryan, 1985): WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (2)
  • Sleep deprivation: causes and effects (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4) (2)
  • Sleep hygiene and He et al. (2020): WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (4)
  • Social psychology (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4) (5)
  • Social Readjustment Rating Scale (Holmes and Rahe, 1967): WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (2)
  • Sources of motivation: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (2)
  • Stress and stressors: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)
  • The sleep-wake cycle: NREM and REM sleep (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4) (2)
  • Transactional model of stress and coping (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984): WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4 (3)

Sample cards from this deck

1. Definition

   Attention and the Cocktail party effect: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3

   Define How he studied it

   Cherry used dichotic listening: participants wore headphones and heard a different message in each ear at the same time. They were asked to shadow one message, repeating it aloud word for word, which forced them to attend to that ear. Afterwards they were asked about the message in the other, unattended ear.

2. Definition

   Attachment theory: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4

   Define The Strange Situation

   The Strange Situation is Ainsworth's controlled observation used to assess infant attachment by recording responses to separation, reunion and a stranger. The infant's exploration, separation anxiety, stranger anxiety and reunion behaviour are used to classify the attachment style.

3. Definition

   Attitudes and social cognition: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3

   Define Attitude

   An attitude is a learned and relatively stable tendency to respond to people, objects or ideas in a favourable or unfavourable way, made up of affective, behavioural and cognitive components.

4. Definition

   Conformity: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4

   Define Normative versus informational influence

   Normative social influence is conforming to gain approval and avoid disapproval, so the change is usually public only. Informational social influence is conforming because we believe others are right, so the change is more likely to be genuinely internalised.

5. Definition

   Attribution theory and biases: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3

   Define Internal versus external attribution

   An internal (dispositional) attribution explains behaviour by stable characteristics of the person; an external (situational) attribution explains it by factors in the situation. The same behaviour can be attributed either way, and which we choose shapes how we judge and respond to the person.

6. Definition

   Cross-cultural psychology: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4

   Define Individualism versus collectivism

   Individualism is a cultural orientation that emphasises personal goals and independence; collectivism is a cultural orientation that emphasises group goals, interdependence and harmony. Most cultures fall somewhere along this dimension rather than at an extreme, and individuals within a culture also vary.

7. Definition

   Behaviour modification: systematic desensitisation and token economies (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3)

   Define How it works

   Relaxation and anxiety cannot happen at the same time. By repeatedly pairing the feared stimulus with relaxation, a new association is learned (counterconditioning), and the old fear response is extinguished because the feared stimulus is no longer followed by anything harmful.

8. Definition

   Culture and community (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4)

   Define Prejudice

   Prejudice is a negative attitude toward members of a group (an attitude, with affective, behavioural and cognitive elements). Discrimination is the negative behaviour or action based on that prejudice. Stereotypes are the cognitive component, the generalised beliefs about a group. Prejudice can arise from social identity processes, competition for resources, and learned stereotypes.

9. Definition

   Brain plasticity and neuroplasticity: WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 3

   Define Neuroplasticity

   Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to reorganise its neural pathways and connections in response to experience, learning or injury.

10. Definition

    Developmental psychology (WACE Year 12 Psychology Unit 4)

    Define Erikson's adolescent stage

    The fifth stage, identity versus role confusion (adolescence), is the central task of forming a coherent sense of self. Successful resolution produces a stable identity; failure produces confusion about one's roles and values.