Behavioural Science & Sociocultural Psychiatry, every concept, explained free
Every Behavioural Science & Sociocultural Psychiatry concept for MRCPsych Prep, explained free, clear mental models, exam recognition, and the look-alikes that trip people up. Your daily session is free, always.
- Shaping (operant conditioning)
- Halo effect and person perception
- Group conformity factors
- Visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease
- Group polarisation
- Non-verbal communication
- Attribution theory
- Cognitive heuristics
- Medical ethics principle of paternalism
- French and Raven's bases of social power
- Culture-bound syndromes
- Yalom's therapeutic factors in group therapy
- Acculturation
- Research ethics
- Stigma concepts
- Psychophysics and perceptual thresholds
- Learned helplessness (Seligman)
- Yerkes-Dodson law (arousal and performance)
- Self-efficacy (Bandura)
- Group dynamics
- Personality trait models (Big Five)
- Attention
- Group decision-making (groupthink and group polarisation)
- Social psychology of groups
- Likert-type agree/disagree rating scale
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Medical ethics
- Holmes and Rahe life events
- Durkheim's theory of suicide
- Total institutions (Goffman)
- Schedules of reinforcement
- Defence mechanisms
- Cognitive dissonance
- Attention (cognitive process)
- Social identity theory (Tajfel)
- Social origins of depression
- Tarasoff principle (duty to warn)
- Transference and countertransference
- Illness behaviour
- Operant conditioning
- Episodic memory
- Locus of control (Rotter)
- Theories of emotion (James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer, Lazarus)
- Social capital
- Classical conditioning
- Social comparison theory (Festinger)
- Gillick competence and Fraser guidelines
- Motivation theories
- Leadership styles
- Parenting styles
- Health belief model
- Conformity and obedience (Asch and Milgram)
- Personality disorder types
- Double bind theory (Bateson)
- Working memory
- Stimulus Preparedness
- Theory of planned behaviour
- Reciprocal inhibition
- Gestalt perception
- Memory retrieval types
- Memory models and types (psychology)
- Expressed emotion
- Illness behaviour and the sick role (Parsons)
- Prejudice (Allport)
- Bystander effect
- Attitudes and persuasion
- Personality theories (psychodynamic)
- Placebo and nocebo effects
- Labelling theory
- Hawthorne effect
- Types of long-term memory
- Emotion theories (James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer)
- Eysenck's personality theory
- Eysenck's PEN model of personality
- Emotional intelligence
- Behavioural therapy techniques
- Anti-psychiatry (Szasz)
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