ALHT106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Learned Helplessness, Groupthink, Explanatory Style
ALHT week 12 Revision
Unit Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the scientific approach of modern psychology and principles for generating
knowledge. (GA 4, 5) (All Lectures esp lecture 1, ch 1 text)
2. Explain the principles of major learning theories in psychology and identify implications
for understanding behaviour in health settings. (GA 1,4,5) (Lectures 1, 2, & 3, ch 6)
3. Describe the main theories of human memory and some of their implications for
understanding behaviour in health settings (GA 5, 8, 9). (Lec 6 & 7, ch 7 & 9)
4 . Explain the major theories of motivation, emotion, and personality and their use in
helping to explain allied health practices (GA 1,4,5) (Lecture 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 & 11 ch 10, 11 14,
17 & 18 text)
5. Locate and extract appropriate information from electronic health databases in preparing
an assessment using relevant academic conventions. (GA 8,9,) (ax tasks, tutorials + tute 8 &
lecture readings)
Exam layout
- Total 90 marks
- 50 multiple choice questions
- Questions come from all weeks
oLearning & behavioural psychology/ principles of behaviour analysis (learning
theory) (weeks 1, 2 & 3) (~10 questions)
oMemory (week 6) (~6 questions)
oIntelligence (week 7) (~5 questions)
oMotivation (week 4) (~5 questions)
oEmotion (week 5) (~5 questions)
oPersonality (week 9) (~7 questions)
oGroup dynamics & processes (week 8) (~ 4 questions)
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oHealth psychology & social cognition (week 10-11) (~ 8 questions)
- Short answers = 40 marks total
- 5 short answer questions (4-10 marks each) questions come from these 6 topics:
oLearning and behavioural psychology/principles of behaviour analysis
(learning theory)
oMemory and cognition
oMotivation and emotion
oPersonality
oGroups
oHealth psychology and social cognition
Week 1:What is psychology?
- Study of the human mind & behaviour
- Science, behaviour & mental processes
- Behaviours are actions that can be directly observed, while mental processes are
experiences that cannot be observed directly, such as thoughts and feelings.
Contemporary Psychology perspectives
- Five contemporary psychology perspectives:
oPsychodynamic
oBehaviourist
oHumanistic
oCognitive
oEvolutionary
- Be able to define and know the focus of the perspective
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Other Key Concepts
- Subdisciplines in psychology understand the focus of the subdiscipline
- Scientific approach research can be experimental, descriptive and/or correlational
Week 2: Learning Theories
- Classical conditioning: (be able to define each term, identify concept in a scenario)
oExtinction
oSpontaneous recovery
oStimulus generalisation
oDiscrimination to a conditioned stimulus
oSecond order conditioning
oCounterconditioning
oExample: Dean for bedwetting
- Operant Conditioning: (be able to list types and schedules of reinforcers and write
out a shaping, chaining and prompting example)
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Document Summary
Explain the major theories of motivation, emotion, and personality and their use in helping to explain allied health practices (ga 1,4,5) (lecture 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 & 11 ch 10, 11 14, 17 & 18 text: locate and extract appropriate information from electronic health databases in preparing an assessment using relevant academic conventions. (ga 8,9,) (ax tasks, tutorials + tute 8 & lecture readings) 5 short answer questions (4-10 marks each) questions come from these 6 topics: learning and behavioural psychology/principles of behaviour analysis (learning theory, memory and cognition, motivation and emotion, personality, groups, health psychology and social cognition. Behaviours are actions that can be directly observed, while mental processes are experiences that cannot be observed directly, such as thoughts and feelings. Five contemporary psychology perspectives: psychodynamic, behaviourist, humanistic, cognitive, evolutionary. Be able to define and know the focus of the perspective. Subdisciplines in psychology understand the focus of the subdiscipline.
