IB Psychology Revision Guide IB Psychology Revision Guide Core: Paper 1 -‐ First Exams 2011 Written by: Chris Ting 13H 3/23/11 Disclaimer Thank you for purchasing or using this guide for your revision purposes. I hope you find this guide useful and I hope it makes your Psychology revision a bit easier. This guide covers the core area of the Psychology syllabus‚
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Abnormal Behavior There are many different ways to define abnormal behavior. We will work from the definition of "behaviors and/or thoughts that are harmful to yourself or to others". What is the cause of abnormal behavior? That is not an easy question to answer. By today’s standards (and to some extent depending on the disorder)‚ we would say that it is a combination of both nature and nurture. Some would say it is because of traumatic events‚ some say it is because of learning‚ others would
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Where Does Personal Identity Reside? : Tommy Vladek Personal identity theory is a theory that questions our existence philosophically: it asks who we are and how do we know? In the essay “Will Tommy Vladek Survive?” John Perry described a controversial topic on identity by analyzing an essay called The Meeting by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Konibluth. In the essay there were two boys -Tommy Vladek a destructive boy‚ who was mentally challenged but healthy-bodied and Sam a normal boy‚ who had an accident
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Music has a very persuasive control over people. It can increase the rate in which we learn things. Music can improve our daily lives and our well-being. It can affect our blood pressure and body organs. Music is a very powerful entity that can drive people’s emotions. Our body experiences something similar to a chain reaction when listening to music therefore; the psychological relationship between music and the mind is very powerful. The auditory cortex in the temporal lobe of the brain connects
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Heather Martin Working as a scientist in Chicago Illinois we deal with some pretty controversial research. One of my most passionate experiments also happens to be the most controversial. My team and I had been trying to restore function to dead tissue. It can be life changing if we can successfully accomplish this. We were very successful in returning functions to the severed limbs of small animals when we decided it was time to find a human test subject. An eight year old child‚ named Sarah
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The Analysis of learning styles through VARK Study. Prasheena Varghese Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion 19-Mar-2012 (O101) (O101) 03.24.2012 Introduction. Influence of learning styles in life have more value than what you think. Self occupied ways leads the way you do learning‚ the way you access and collect
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Retrograde Amnesia in The Bourne Identity Syed Nabeel Hasan Professor Alger 19 April 2012 Psychology 1313 MWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM Retrograde Amnesia Ever wondered how it would feel like to start from scratch in life? How it would feel like to not remember anything or anyone? Retrograde amnesia has caused many people to lose their memory all over the world. Retrograde amnesia is [1] a specific type of amnesia where a person is unable to recall events that have occurred in the past prior to
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Outline and Evaluate the Multi – Store Model of Memory ( 12 marks ) Information from the environment enters sensory memory‚ encoded through one of the 5 senses depending on the type of information. If attention is paid to this information it will enter short term memory ( STM )which‚ according to Miller‚ has a capacity of 7+/- 2 bits of information. It can last up to 18 seconds‚ without rehearsal‚ according to Peterson and Peterson. Baddeley found that information in STM is encoded mainly
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Witness for the Defense: The all American Boy Ted Bundy How can expectations influence memory? Fragments and features are picked up and they go into memory where they interact with prior knowledge‚ and expectations‚ information that is already stored in our memory. You could also use the Gesalt Theory of closure because we can see part of something and our mind uses our memories to make it whole. What are the main features of the acquisition‚ retention‚ and retrieval stages of memory according
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Many students complain about studying and study habits. There are many things to help this common problem. By studying what Ive learned about memory and learning‚ I will use this information to assess my own study habits and make them more effective. Encoding information in short-term memory is stored according to the way it sounds‚ the way it looks‚ or its meaning. Verbal information is encoded by sound‚ even if it is written rather than heard. Visual encoding in short-term memory is greater than
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