Psychology overview
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- Created on: 11-05-15 12:14
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- A2 Psychology
- Unit 3
- Aggression
- Social psychologicaltheories of aggression
- Social Learning Theory
- Deindividuation
- Institutional Aggression
- Power of sit and dehumanising labels
- importation model
- Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression
- role of low serotonin
- link between testosterone and aggression
- Genetic Factors
- warrior gene
- general genetic theory
- Evolutionary Explanation
- For group display
- War and sporting events
- For human aggression
- Infidelity and jealousy
- For group display
- Social psychologicaltheories of aggression
- Biological Rhythms
- Nature of sleep
- Disruption of biorhythms
- ie. shift work and jet lag
- Functions of sleep
- Circadian / Infradian /Ultradian
- Explanations for sleep disorders
- Insomnia, Narcolepsy, Sleepwalking
- Gender
- Role of hormones and genes
- Evolutionary explanations of gender
- Parental investment
- Systemising/empathising
- Biosocial approach to gender
- And biosocial to gender dysphoria
- Cognitive developmental therapy
- Gender Schema Theory
- Social Influences
- Cultural influences on gender
- Aggression
- Unit 4
- Research Methods
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- Depression
- issues with classification and diagnosis
- biological explanations
- Clinical characteristics
- psychological explanations
- psychological therapies
- Biological therapies
- Anomalistic Psychology
- explanations for magical thinking
- personality factors
- explanations for superstitiousbehavious
- near death experience
- Role of coincidence and probability judgement
- out of body experience
- Methodological issues with paranormal action eg. psychokinesis
- psychic healing
- methodological issues related to paranormal cognition
- ESP, Ganzfeld
- psychic mediumship
- Pseudo-science
- Research Methods
- Unit 3
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