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What is a Defence Mechanism?
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Something which our ego has developed in order to protect the mind from anxiety
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What is the super ego?
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The aspect of personality that holds all of our internalized morals.
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What is the Ego?
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The component of personality that is responsible for dealing with reality.
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What is the ID?
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Only component of personality that is present from birth.
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What is a Correlation?
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the measure of the strength and direction of the relationship between the variables.
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Who is Dibs?
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A five year old boy who's parents believed that he was brian damaged and was refered to Axline (a therapist who using play therapy)
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What is the Psychosexual development?
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Freud's theory of personality development focusing on the effects of sexual pleasure drive on a person's emerging personality.
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What is the Oral stage?
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Only the id is present in this stage so the infant seeks immediate gratification achieved through the mouth.According to Freud.
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What is the Anal Stage?
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child experiences pleasure from elimination of faeces according to Freud.
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What is the Phallic Stage?
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The stage in which the Oedipus and the Electra complex takes place.
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What is the Oedipus Complex?
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When a 4-5 year old boy has feeling towards his mother and fears his father because he has the ability to castrate them.
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What is the Electra Complex?
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When a 4-5 year old girl have penis envy, girls focus on their father because they believe that they have the ability ot give them a penis.
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What is dream analysis according to Freud?
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According to Freud we learn through fairy tails, myths, jokes, folklore, poems and liguistic usuage.
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Who is the phobia of a five year old boy?
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Little Hans
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What is the aim of Freud's study of Little Hans?
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to report the findings of the treatment of a five-year-old boy for his phibia of horses
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What was the procedure of Freud's theory of Little Hans?
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Freud used a case study method to investigate little hans' phobia. Freud would ask Hans' father to report back to him.
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What were the results of Freud's case study of Little Hans?
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Little Hans feared horses becaus ethey reminded them of his fathers appearance.
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What is the Biological Approach?
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Looks at chemical activity in the brain, including how neurotransmitters act at synapses to enable messages to be transmitted.
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What are genetic influences?
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Genes are passed on from parents to children and tehy govern behaviour as well as physical characteristics.
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What is Dopamine?
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- Controls movement
- In parkinson's - little dopamine reaches the interior of the brain. |
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What is Norepinephrine (noradrenalin)?
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- Regulates mood
- Disturbances can cause depression - Higher levels causes aggression |
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What is a Neurone?
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Transmits signals electrically along their axons.
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What is a Neurotransmitter?
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The chemical thats used to pass messages.
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What is a Gene?
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Units of information that are inherited.
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What is a Synapse?
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Junction between two brain cells.
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What is the CNS?
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Central Nervous System.
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What does the CNS do?
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The brain and spinal cord which organise communication around the body.
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What is Serotonin?
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- Regulates mood, emtion, sleep and appetite.
- decrease serotonin contributes to depression. - aggression and violent behaviour in people is also linked with low levels of serotonin. |
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What is Nature?
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Behaviour is caused by innate characteristics - Biological.
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What is Nurture?
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An individuals behaviour is determinded by the enviroment.
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What is a Dizygotic Twin?
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- Where a women releases tow eggs and both are fertilized
- Share 50% of genes |
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What is a Monodizygotic Twin?
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- When one egg is released and splits into two.
- 100% identical twins |
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What is the Aim of the Money study?
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To see if you could bring a boy up as a girl.
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What is the procedure of the Money study?
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Interviews between Money and the child and the theropy the child recieved.
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What were the results of the Money study?
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He didn't identify himself as a girl and wanted to be a boy. He later killed himself.
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What can we conclude from the Money study?
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That you can't raise a boy as a girl.
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What functions are in the left hemisphere?
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Analytic thought,logic, language, science and maths.
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What functions are in the right hemisphere?
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Holistic thought, intuition, creativity, art and music.
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What is meant by Analytical thought?
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Involves understanding a system by thinking about its parts and how they work together to produce larger-scale effects.
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What is meant by Holistic thought?
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Involves understanding a system by sensing its large-scale patterns and reacting to them.
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Is an MRI scan structural or functional?
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STRUCTURAL :)
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Is an FMRI scan functional or structural?
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FUNCTIONAL :)
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Is a MEG scan functional or structural?
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FUNCTIONAL :)
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Is a PET scan functional or structual?
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FUNCTIONAL :)
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What does MRI stand for?
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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What does an MRI scan?
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The whole body.
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What does FMRI stand for?
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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What does PET stand for?
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Positron Emission Tomography.
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What is a PET scan?
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A nuclear medical imaging.
Need an injection. Shows specific part of the brain. |
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What does NGRI mean?
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not gulity for reasons of insanity.
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What is the aim of the Raine study?
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To look at direct measures of both cortical and subcortical brain functioning using PET scans on a group of murders who have pleaded not guility by reason of insanity (NGRI)
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What is the independant variable for the Raine study?
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Whether the participants had commited murder or not.
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What is the dependant variable for the Raine study?
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The results of the PET scans.
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