Industrial Revolution
This invention dramatically improved transportation and powered trains throughout the Industrial Revolution.
What is the locomotive?
Emotional distress seen in infants when they are introduced to people they don't know
What is stranger anxiety?
Conducted the "line experiment" to measure the extent of conformity in a group setting
Who is Solomon Asch?
The three stages of general adaptation syndrome (in order)
What is alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
Conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This is the fear of being in open spaces, a crowd, or using public transportation
What is agorophobia?
This disease spread rapidly through crowded industrial cities due to poor sanitation.
What is cholera?
The drive reduction theory states that humans strive to maintain _____________, which is a steady internal state
What is homeostasis?
Believed conditional love/positive regard promotes incongruence of one's self-concept
Who is Carl Rogers?
The decision-making component of personality that seeks to delay gratification of urges until appropriate (according to Freud)
What is the ego?
Proposed 4 stages of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
Disorder in which a person alternates between depression and intense moments of mania
What is bipolar?
This economist argued that economies work best when governments interfere as little as possible.
Who is Adam Smith?
The period of time in our development that is vital for learning language, skills, and social behaviors
What is critical period?
Conducted "A Strange Experiment" to study infant-mother attachment patterns
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
This is the idea that facial expressions can fuel emotional responses
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
Conducted an experiment that paired a bell with meat to make a dog salivate
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
An excess of this neurotransmitter is linked to schizophrenia
What is dopamine?
This economic system calls for government ownership of major industries and resources.
What is Socialism?
This earliest stage of cognitive development occurs up to the age of 2 and at this stage infants do not have object permanence
What is sensorimotor stage?
Proposed general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
Who is Hans Selye?
A student who doesn't trust Mr. Heidegger instead believes Mr. Heidegger doesn't trust him (defense mech)
What is projection?
His/her studies of infant monkeys showed the importance of contact comfort in forming attachments
Who is Harry Harlow?
Type of therapy that challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
What is rational emotive behavior therapy?
Refers to a free-market idea advocating for minimal or no government intervention in business, trade, or markets.
What is laissez faire?
The 5th stage of psychosocial development takes place from our teens to early 20s
What is identity vs. role confusion?
He created the 8 stages of psychosocial development
Who is Erik Erikson?
This notion suggests that a moderate level of arousal (not too much, not too little) leads to optimal performance
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law OR the inverted-U hypothesis?
She was isolated for the first 13 years of her life and finally discovered in the early 1970s
Who is Genie?
Type of therapy that treats people by exposing them (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid
What is exposure therapy?