Language and Communication

WHY IS THERE VARIABILITY IN THE ATTITUDE BEHAVIOUR LINK? • Stable versus Flexible attitudes • General vs specific attitudes • Theory of Planed Behaviour • Implicit attitudes • Does IAT predict behaviour? Summary • attitudes are basic (automatic and involuntary) • we can hold conflicting implicit and explicit attitudes • the links between explicit and implicit measures of attitudes and behaviour depends on many factors How we ask the question How our other cog...

EYEWITNESS FACE RECOGNITION AND EYEWITNESS ACCURACY IN APPLIED CONTEXTS face recognition task -> cognitive processing • Eyewitnesses • Variables affecting accuracy • Changes to police procedure • Developing areas • other applied contexts for face perception

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SELF-HARM ASSESSMENT OF RISK AND NEED ASSESSMENT OF SELF-HARM Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Psychotherapeutic approach designed to treat the problems of chronically suicidal individuals with BPD (Swales & Heard, 2009) “Dialectical” Philosophy of DBT “Dialectics” Mindfulness (ODP) Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) The major goals of MBT How does it work? Increasing patient’s capacity for metallisation = stabilise the sense of self + enhance stability and re...

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN OLDER PEOPLE: MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TRAUMA AND PTSD IN LATER LIFE Intrusion symptoms Avoidance Symptoms Negative conditions Arousal symptoms PTSD COMPARATIVE CRITERIA Stressors Subjective Reexperiencng Avoidant Amnesia Numbing Foreshortened future Arousal Onset Functional impairment SYMPTOMS CATEGORIES IN PTSD PTSD LONG TERM EFFECTS SYMPTOMS OF UNCHANGED TRAUMATIC STRESS Amygdala Hippocampus Prefrontal cortex Rest of the...

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1. Do neuropsychological dissociations support stronger theoretical inferences than neuropsychological associations? 2. Is the study of single patients more informative than the study of patient groups? 3. What is a stroke and what are the main risk factors? 4. What do brain lesion studies tell us about cognition that functional brain imaging studies do not? 5. What problems stand in the way of inferring normal function from the study of brain-damaged patients? 6. For a cognitive disorde...

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