Research
This type of research method involves observing behavior in its natural setting without manipulation
What is Naturalistic observation?
The process where the observer sees the model rewarded, making the observer more likely to imitate the model's behavior
What is Vicarious learning OR Vicarious reinforcement
The term that refers to the tendency of people to go along with a groups expectations or norms?
What is Conformity?
This person conducted the Stanford prison experiment and acknowledged after that he should have been more objective during the study.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This scientific discipline studies behavior and mental processes, including thoughts, emotions, and actions.
What is Psychology?
DAILY DOUBLE
This research method examines relationships between variables but cannot determine causation.
What is correlational research?
This learning process involves rewards and punishments to shape behavior.
What is Operant Conditioning?
This type of motivation comes from internal satisfaction rather than external rewards.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This physiologist is famous for discovering the phenomenon of classical conditioning
via his studies on dogs.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
The co-occurance of two disorders.
What is Comorbidity?
In research, this method enables scientists to establish causal links between variables by manipulating the independent variable while keeping other variables constant.
What is Experimental Design?
Using rewards to strengthen/increase behavior
What is positive reinforcement?
The condition where someone feels powerless due to persistent failure or traumatic events.
What is Learned helplessness?
This psychologist proposed that personality is shaped by the conflict between the id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The activation of the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system, allowing access to energy reserves and heightened sensory capacity so that we might fight off a given threat or run away to safety
What is fight or flight response
A fake treatment that is used in experiments to test expectations
What is a placebo?
This type of learning involves associating two stimuli, as demonstrated in Ivan Pavlov’s famous dog experiment.
What is classical conditioning?
The name of the phenomenon in which a witness or bystander does not volunteer to help a victim or person in distress.
What is the Bystander effect?
This man survived having an iron rod penetrate his frontal lobe, causing changes to his personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
This branch of psychology examines how people affect one another, and it looks at the power of the situation.
What is social psychology?
The group that doesn’t receive the treatment during an experiment
What is the control group?
DAILY DOUBLE
An example of this is when a child misbehaves, a parent takes a favorite toy.
What is negative punishment?
The persuasion of one person by another person, encouraging a person to agree to a small favor, or to buy a small item, only to later request a larger favor or purchase of a larger item
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
“Do children differ in ways they bond” this question was as by who
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
Memory aids that help us organize information for encoding
What are Mnemonic devices?