Formula sheets, the key method steps for every topic and 8 practice problems, with full solutions at the back.
In a lexical decision task, people recognise "nurse" as a word faster after seeing "doctor" than after seeing "bread". This is best explained by:
Clive Wearing developed severe amnesia after a brain infection and cannot remember events from moment to moment, yet he can still play the piano and conduct music. This shows that:
Baumrind's authoritative parenting style combines:
Parents who love reading pass on genes linked to verbal ability and also fill the house with books. This is which gene–environment correlation?
Tom says he tripped because the floor was wet, but when he sees someone else trip he thinks they are clumsy. This is the:
Myers and Bishop found that students high in prejudice became more prejudiced after discussing racial issues with similar students, and low-prejudice students became less prejudiced. Which two explanations are usually given?
Which defence mechanism is shown by someone who is angry with their boss but shouts at their partner at home?
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) was originally developed for:
Answer: C · Spreading activation in a semantic network
Collins and Loftus proposed that activating a concept spreads activation to related concepts, making them easier to access (semantic priming).
Answer: C · Procedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
His profound anterograde and retrograde amnesia for episodes, with preserved skills, supports separate memory systems for declarative and procedural knowledge.
Answer: A · High warmth with high, clearly explained expectations
Authoritative parents are responsive and set firm, reasoned limits; this style is associated with good social and academic outcomes in many studies.
Answer: D · Passive
In passive correlations, biological parents provide both genes and an environment that fits them. This is strongest in early childhood.
Answer: A · Actor–observer bias
As actors we see the situation around us, so we make situational attributions for ourselves and dispositional attributions for others.
Answer: B · Persuasive arguments and social comparison
Group polarisation is explained by hearing more arguments supporting the initial view and by comparing oneself with others to appear a good group member.
Answer: B · Displacement
Displacement shifts an impulse from a threatening target to a less threatening one. Projection attributes one's own unacceptable feelings to others.
Answer: A · Borderline personality disorder with self-harm
DBT combines CBT with mindfulness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, initially for people with borderline personality disorder and chronic suicidality.
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