Psychologists
The father of psychology.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The "common cold" of mental disorders.
What is Clinical Depression?
The technique where you start with a small request before making a larger request.
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
What is a dog?
The 24 hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
Developed classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
In certain instances, when people underestimate the effect of social situations and overestimate the influence of personality in certain
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error.
Learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others.
What is Observational Learning?
The unique phase of sleep in mammals and birds, distinguishable by random/rapid movement of the eyes and vivid sleeps.
What is Rapid Eye Movement sleep (REM sleep)?
Created the skinner box and studied operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Developed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, originally known as Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy.
Who is Aaron T. Beck?
Concept where in people cause a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole.
Theory that people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modeling.
What is the social learning theory?
A burst of oscillatory brain activity visible on an EEG that occurs during stage 2 sleep.
What is a Sleep Spindle?
Father of behavioral psychology.
Who is John Watson?
Offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
Stated that any behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and any behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to be stopped.
What is Law of Effect?
A chronic sleep disorder that causes overwhelming daytime drowsiness.
Came up with the theory of cognitive development that explains how a child constructs a mental model of the world.
Who is Jean Piaget's?
Name the five major categories of mental illnesses.
What are Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders, Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders, Dementia, and Eating Disorders.
When a group of well-intentioned people make irrational or non-optimal decisions that are spurred by the urge to conform or the discouragement of dissent
What is groupthink.?
The four requirements for learning identified in the social learning theory.
What are observation, retention, reproduction, and motivation?
Slow waves that occur in stage 3 and 4 of sleep.
What are Delta Waves?