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Harlow's Monkey's preferred this to food
Lorenz's geese displayed this behaviour
The amount of information held in a memory store
Length of time a memory can be held
What the researcher wants to find out
A testable prediction
In depth investigation of an individual or group
A nuisance variable that gets in the way
A group that is not the experimental group - treated as a baseline measure
When people work out the aim and act accordingly
Variable that is manipulated
Variable that is measured
When two pps are matched on a variable and one does each condition
When you sample based on who is available
Data which is numerical
Data in the form of words
The main part of the working memory model that controls the slave stores
Memory is disrupted by older or newer information
When people unintentionally forget due to trauma
A cognitive framework which helps us make sense of the world
The change from agentic to autonomous state or back
Shallow type of conformity where you privately disagree
The experimenter's helper
When a person becomes part of a group and loses their own identity
The extent to which an individual believes they have control over their own life
Complying with the demands of an authority figure
Bowlby's name for people who show little concern for others and have no remorse or guilt
The 0-6 week old stage in Schaffer and Emerson's model of attachment
The time period where a baby has to make an attachment or it won't happen
Infant and caregiver reflect each others actions in a coordinated manner
Bowlby's idea of a unique bond with one person
Failure to form any attachment at all in childhood
Innate behaviours shown by an infant that lead to a caregiving response
Ainworth's controlled observation
A type of therapy created by Beck using cognitive methods
High levels of this are linked to OCD
Low levels of this are linked to depression and OCD
Exposing a person to their phobic stimulus with no escape
Beck's idea of 3 ways we are negative
A way of classifying abnormality based on how common or rare it is in a population
Mowrer's idea that we acquire phobias through classical conditioning and maintain them through operant conditioning
Approach which suggests we learn through stimulus-response
Learning through association
Learning from consequence
Responding to a threat by facing it or running
Drawing conclusions about the workings of the mind by looking at the output/behaviour
Imitating a role model
The fatty layer protecting an axon
Rewarding a behaviour so it is repeated
The expression of a persons genotype when influenced by the environment
