AQA A Level Psychology Quiz - Approaches

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Who became the first psychologist and opened the first psychology lab in Germany?
Wilhelm Wundt
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What is the term for "examining ones own thoughts and feelings"?
Introspection
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What is a limitation of the structuralism theory?
Lacked scientific objectivity as it relied on non-observable responses
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In Behaviourism, who discussed classical conditioning?
Pavlov
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What is positive reinforcement?
Rewarding a behaviour, therefore making it more likely that the behaviour will be repeated
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What is a strength of the Behaviourist approach?
It has led to treatments for phobias
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What part of the brain stores information that is able to be consciously made aware of?
Preconscious
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What does the pleasure principle apply to?
ID
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What are the three defence mechanisms?
Displacement, denial, repression
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What is the correct order of the psychosexual stages?
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
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What is one type of psychoanalysis?
Dream interpretations
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Why is the theory being unscientific a limitation of the psychodynamic approach?
Aspects cannot be analysed and are subjective
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What is the correct order of the Hierarchy of Needs?
Physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, self-actualisation
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What is the correct term for when a person gives feelings of acceptance and value, regardless of who we are/what we’ve done?
Unconditional positive regard
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Who developed the idea of client-centred therapy, with the aim to minimise incongruence between your self concept and ideal self?
Rogers
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What are the two models in the cognitive approach?
Theoretical model, computer model
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What are schemas?
Cognitive frameworks to organise and interpret information, enabling shortcuts
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Why is comparing our mind to a computer a limitation for the cognitive approach?
Machine reductionism, neglects emotional influences
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What is the order of the mediational processes in the social learning theory?
Attention, retention, motor reproduction, motivation
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Who is the main theorist for the social learning theory?
Bandura
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What factors does the social learning theory ignore? (evaluation to criticise)
Biological
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Does the biological approach support determinism or free will?
Determinism
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What are the approaches that are reductionist?
Biological, cognitive, psychodynamic, behaviourist, social learning theory
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Which approaches support nature rather than nurture?
Biological, cognitive, psychodynamic
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What is the correct term for when a theory creates general rules that apply to all?
Nomothetic
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