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Comprehensive Psychology Review Course for Exam Prep

Brush up on psychology concepts, memory models, and cognitive approaches. Identify key theories, paradigms, and experiments. Get ready for the big exam in May 2014!

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Comprehensive Psychology Review Course for Exam Prep

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  1. Welcome Back

  2. Learning outcomes • You will have reviewed/recapped/reminded yourselves of the topics we covered last term • You will be able to identify the 3 components that make up Prejudice and Discrimination (ABC). • You will be able to Describe each of the 3 components • Exam dates – 13th and 20th May 2014

  3. Big fat quiz of the year • Psychology is an umbrella term –it is not ‘one thing’. It has no single paradigm. • It is made up of lots of different approaches. Each approach has a different underlying assumption.

  4. What is the underlying assumption of the social approach? • Identify the underlying assumption of the cognitive approach in psychology.

  5. Memory is only one of the things cognitive psychologists are interested in • Identify 2 other areas of interest to cognitive psychologists. We looked at 3 models of memory. (Memory theories/frameworks) • Put them in chronological order together with the psychologist who is associated with the theory.

  6. Theories of forgetting • Identify the 2 theories we looked at and put them in chronological order together with the associated psychologist. • Next decide which one is associated with LTM and which STM. • With which do we associate accessibility of memory and with which do we associate availability of memory

  7. Identify the key issue for the cognitive approach • According to Agency Theory (1974) we move from an autonomous to an agentic state when we obey. • What are the circumstances in which this happens ? • Identify a criticism of agency theory

  8. Lesson 2 • By the end of this lesson you will be able to describeTajfel’s experiments (1 and 2) on intergroup discrimination. • You will be able to include the following terms: • Matrix; Minimal group identity; maximum joint profit; maximum in-group profit; fairness; maximum difference

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