60 Second Psychology

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The notes cover: facts and theories, evidence and evaluation, and definitions of key terms.

Learn and revise using the notes on: Memory, attachment, research methods, research design, social influence, stress, explaining mental disorders, treating mental disorders, approaches to psychology, analysing and presenting data and ethics, inferential statistics.

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Examples of topics included:
Memory: The multi-store and working memory models, forgetting, levels of processing, eyewitness testimony, the cognitive interview.

Attachment: Types and theories of attachment, the Strange Situation, disrupting attachment, cultural variations, day care.

Research methods: Experiments, case studies, observations, correlation, interviews and questionnaires.

Social influence: Conformity, obedience, refusing to obey/conform, Milgram’s studies.

Stress: What stress is, body’s response to stress, stress and illness, sources and causes of stress, coping with stress, measuring stress, personal factors, managing stress.

Explaining mental disorders: Schizophrenia, depression, phobic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders.
Treating mental disorders: Cognitive therapies, biological therapies, psychodynamic therapies, behavioural therapies, humanistic and social therapies.

Approaches to psychology: Biological, behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic, social, comparing approaches.
Research design: Sampling, aims, hypotheses, operationalisation, experimental design, independent and dependent variables, extraneous variables.

Data and ethics: Content analysis, measures of central tendency and dispersion, correlational analysis, bar charts, histograms, ethical research.

Inferential statistics: Probability and significance, type 1 and 2 errors, levels of data, choosing and interpreting statistical tests, Chi-squared test, Spearman’s correlation, sign test, Mann-Whitney U-test, Wilcoxon’s test, Pearson’s correlation, t-tests.

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