In the Beginning
Scientific Method
Learning
Learning II
Miscellaneous
100
Who is credited as the founder of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
100
The variable that you measure
What is the dependent variable
100
Her students panic and outwardly cry of impending faillure whenever the teacher gives a test. What type of behavior have the students learned.
What is learned helplessness.
100
Who is considered the founder of Classical Conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
100
In Pavlov's Experiments, the dog food served as what?
The Unconditioned Stimulus
200
The psychological approach, founded by Sigmund Freud, concentrates on the unconscious mind.
Psychoanalytic (later Psychodynamic)
200
The variable that you manipulate.
What is the independent variable
200
A teacher rewards a student for sitting quietly for ten minutes on Monday, fifteen minutes on Tuesday, twenty minutes on Wednesday, and thirty minutes on Thursday. What is this an example of?
What is shaping?
200
Who "discovered" Operant Conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
200
This psychologist created a theory of cognitive development that included the idea of a "critical period" for development of certain skills
Jean Piaget
300
Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation is known as...
Naturalistic or Observation
300
An experiment where the researcher and the participant do not know which is the placebo and which is the medicine.
What is Double Blind experiment
300
An individual’s fear of dogs that is lost as the individual is exposed to dogs in nonthreatening situations is referred to by behaviorists as a fear that has been
What is extinguished.
Will accept extinction although this is classical conditioning.
300
John Watson performed an experiment showing the power of generalization, what was his experiment called?
Little Albert Experiment
300
Leo Vygotsky is famous for this theory of learning
Zone of proximal development
400
Rene Descartes and John Locke were two philosopher who wrote about this idea, a central tension of psychology.
Nature vs nurture
400
This percentage represents one Standard Deviation away from zero.
400
A child who learns that spoons are tableware and then correctly calls forks and knives tableware is demonstrating
What is stimulus generalization.
*will accept generalization
400
Mrs. Myers decides to postpone a cumulative final in her AP Psych class. Her students then tell her that she is their favorite teacher. What is the Operant Conditioning technique being used by the students?
What is Positive Reinforcement
400
The initial stage of learning is
Acquisition
500
What psychological field is most closely associated with learning
Behaviorism
500
The process of randomly choosing group to participate from the population.
What is Random Sample
500
The terms "modeling" and "imitation" are most closely associated with which type of learning theory.
What is Social Learning Theory
500
Which partial reinforcement schedule that is most resistant to extinction?
What is variable ratio
500
Name 3 ethical concerns of an experiment
Informed Consent, Experimenter Bias, de-briefing, harm to subject, etc.