PSYCHOLOGY AS
LEVEL NOTES
~ Lea Coeur
1
, INDEX
BIOLOGICAL APPROACH …………………………………………………. 3
● Canli et al 4
● Dement and kleitman 12
● Schachter and singer 19
COGNITIVE APPROACH …………………………………………………… 33
● Andrade 34
● Baron-Cohen et al 40
● Laney et al 45
LEARNING APPROACH …………………………………………………….. 56
● Bandura et al 57
● Saavedra and silverman 67
● Pepperberg 73
SOCIAL APPROACH ………………………………………………………… 81
● Milgram 82
● Piliavin et al 87
● Yamamoto 92
2
,BIOLOGICAL APPROACH
ASSUMPTIONS
★ Emotions, behaviour, and cognition are controlled by
biological systems and processes such as evolution, genes,
the nervous system and hormones
★ Emotions, behaviour, and cognition can be investigated by
manipulating and measuring biological responses, such as
eye-movements, brain activity and pulse rate
3
, Canli et. Al
IV
➔ Intensity of emotional arousal to each 96 images
- 4 buttons - scale of 0 to 3 (0-not emotionally intense at all,
3-extremely emotionally intense)
DV
➔ fMRI scan of Amygdala activation
- Number of pixels counted
➔ Memory of the scene after 3 weeks
- remembered, familiar, or forgotten
AIM
➔ To study whether emotive images will be remembered better than those
that have little emotional impact on an individual
➔ Central questions
- Is the amygdala sensitive to varying degrees of emotional intensity
to external stimuli ??
- Does the level of emotional intensity enhance the memory of the
stimuli??
4
LEVEL NOTES
~ Lea Coeur
1
, INDEX
BIOLOGICAL APPROACH …………………………………………………. 3
● Canli et al 4
● Dement and kleitman 12
● Schachter and singer 19
COGNITIVE APPROACH …………………………………………………… 33
● Andrade 34
● Baron-Cohen et al 40
● Laney et al 45
LEARNING APPROACH …………………………………………………….. 56
● Bandura et al 57
● Saavedra and silverman 67
● Pepperberg 73
SOCIAL APPROACH ………………………………………………………… 81
● Milgram 82
● Piliavin et al 87
● Yamamoto 92
2
,BIOLOGICAL APPROACH
ASSUMPTIONS
★ Emotions, behaviour, and cognition are controlled by
biological systems and processes such as evolution, genes,
the nervous system and hormones
★ Emotions, behaviour, and cognition can be investigated by
manipulating and measuring biological responses, such as
eye-movements, brain activity and pulse rate
3
, Canli et. Al
IV
➔ Intensity of emotional arousal to each 96 images
- 4 buttons - scale of 0 to 3 (0-not emotionally intense at all,
3-extremely emotionally intense)
DV
➔ fMRI scan of Amygdala activation
- Number of pixels counted
➔ Memory of the scene after 3 weeks
- remembered, familiar, or forgotten
AIM
➔ To study whether emotive images will be remembered better than those
that have little emotional impact on an individual
➔ Central questions
- Is the amygdala sensitive to varying degrees of emotional intensity
to external stimuli ??
- Does the level of emotional intensity enhance the memory of the
stimuli??
4
