Biological and Learning Psychology

**Chapters included: (why am I charging the price!!)

• 3.1.1 The role of the central nervous system (CNS) & neurotransmitters in human behaviour, including the structure & role of the neuron, the function of neurotransmitters & synaptic transmission.

• The effect of recreational drugs on the transmission process in the central nervous system

• 3.1.2 The structure of the brain, different brain areas including the pre-frontal cortex & limbic system & brain functioning as an explanation of aggression as a human behaviour.

• THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF AGGRESSION - AGGRESSION IN THE BRAIN

• THE IMPORTANCE OF HORMONES

• THEORIES OF AGGRESSION

• EXPLAINING AGGRESSION THROUGH EVOLUTION

• Biological Rhythms: Endogenous Pacemakers & Exogenous Zeitgebers

• SAD

• Scanning techniques

• WHY STUDY TWINS & ADOPTEES?

• TWIN STUDIES

• GOTTESMAN & SHIELDS (1966) - A TWIN STUDY: THE GENETIC CAUSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

• THE DEBATE OVER GENETICS

• 3.3.1 Raine et al. (1997) Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography.

• 3.3.2 Brendgen et al. (2005) Examining genetic & environmental effects on social aggression: A study of 6-year-old twins.

• FREUD’S PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY - SECRETS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

• DEFENCE MECHANISMS

• PSYCHOSEXUAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT

• INSTINCT THEORY OF AGGRESSION

• WHAT IS SPEARMAN’S RHO?

• 3.3.3 McDermott (2008) Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioural aggression following provocation.

• Classical conditioning by Ivan Pavlov

• The main features of operant conditioning, including types of reinforcement (positive & negative) & punishment (positive & negative) & properties of reinforcement (primary, secondary & schedules) including researching Skinner (1948) Superstition in the pigeon.

• Freud’s psychosexual stages of development

• HOW CAN WE TREAT PHOBIAS?

• In Vivo vs In Vitro

• FLOODING - A BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR TREATING PHOBIAS

• SYSTEMATIC DESENSITISATION - A BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR TREATING PHOBIAS

• PAVLOV (1927) - SALIVATION REFLEX IN DOGS

• BANDURA (1961, 1963a, 1965) - THREE STUDIES INTO IMITATING AGGRESSION

• BANDURA (1977) - SOCIAL LEARNING EXPLAINS LEARNING BY OBSERVATION

• RESEARCH INTO SOCIAL LEARNING - The findings of studies

• BECKER ET AL. (2002) - THE CONTEMPORARY STUDY: TELEVISION & EATING DISORDERS IN FIJI

• WATSON & RAYNER (1928) - THE CLASSIC STUDY: LITTLE ALBERT

• WHAT IS THE CHI-SQUARED TEST?

• Capafons et al. (1998) Systematic desensitisation in the treatment of fear of flying

• Contemporary study Option 1 - Prot (2014) Long-term Relations Among Prosocial-Media use, Empathy, & Prosocial Behaviour
  and much more!!****

• both practicals for biological and learning theories