QCE PsychologyPractice Examination 12

This paper covers

• Parkinson's disease — dopamine depletion in substantia nigra, motor symptoms (tremors, rigidity, postural instability)
• Localisation of brain function — basal ganglia, cerebellum, motor cortex
• Synaptic transmission — neurotransmitter roles, receptor binding, inhibitory/excitatory signalling
• Working memory model — Baddeley and Hitch (1974), phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive, episodic buffer
• Levels of processing — Craik and Lockhart (1972), shallow/deep encoding
• Visual perception — bottom-up and top-down processing, cultural influences, named illusions
• Classical conditioning — Pavlov, Watson and Rayner, stimulus generalisation, extinction
• Operant conditioning — Skinner, reinforcement schedules, punishment
• Social/observational learning — Bandura, vicarious reinforcement, modelling
• Conformity — Asch (1951), normative and informational social influence
• Obedience — Milgram (1963), agentic state, legitimacy of authority
• Bystander effect — Latane and Darley (1968/1970), diffusion of responsibility, audience inhibition, social influence explanation
• Prosocial and antisocial behaviour — media influences on aggression
• Attitude formation — tri-component model (cognitive, affective, behavioural), elaboration likelihood model (Petty and Cacioppo)
• Cognitive dissonance — Festinger
• Acculturation — Berry (1980) four strategies; culture shock — Oberg (1960) four stages
• Prejudice reduction — ethnocentrism vs cultural relativism
• Stanford Prison Experiment — Haney, Banks and Zimbardo (1973), situational vs dispositional factors

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