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Key Terms in Psychology
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A detailed list of all of the key terms within Psychology. Ideal for all A-Level Psychology students
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1.
What does the term Abnormal Behaviour mean?
Answer: Behaviour that differs from the norm
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What does the term \'adaptive\' mean?
Answer: Behaviours that promote survival and reproduction.
3.
What does the term \'agentic state\' mean?
Answer: When a person is under the control of an authority figure.
4.
What does the term \'altruism\' mean?
Answer: Helping behaviour. Putting other people before yourself.
5.
What does the term \'attachment\' mean?
Answer: The strong emotional bond between a baby and their carer.
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What does the term \'behaviourism\' mean?
Answer: An approach to Psychology that believes that all behaviour can be explained by the learning theory.
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What does the term \'bystander behaviour\' mean?
Answer: The theory that within a potential helping scenario the presence of other people reduces the victim\'s chances of receiving help.
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What does the term \'case study\' mean?
Answer: A research method that involves looking in detail at a single person, event or organisation.
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What does the term \'cognition\' mean?
Answer: This refers to our higher mental processes such as believing, acquiring knowledge and perceiving.
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What does the term \'control\' mean?
Answer: Control refers to the extent to which an experimenter can claim that the behaviour recorded in experiment is as a result of the independent variable.
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