Important People
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Schools of Thought
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This person coined the term free association and is the father of psychoanalysis
Who is Freud
100
A therapeutic technique implemented by Freud in where the therapist says whatever comes to mind.
What is Free Association?
100
This school of thought is based on the idea that a whole does not equal the sum of it's parts.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
100
This learning situation involves behavior emitted by the organism rather than elicited by a detectable stimulus.
What is Operant Conditioning?
100
This is the process by which a patient responds to the therapist as if the therapist were a significant person (e.g., a parent) in the patient's life
What is Transference?
200
This individual is one of the most prominent psychologists of the 20th century and his methods of operant conditioning are still used today in behavior therapy and modification.
Who is B.F. Skinner
200
A device that included signs for a pigeon to peck and demonstrated the effects of different reinforcement schedules.
What is a Skinner Box?
200
This school of thought is most often associated with John Watson and dealt solely with what could be objectively observed.
What is Behaviorism?
200
This theory posited that the most crucial influence on personality is the social bond between mother and child.
What is Object Relations Theory?
200
The unconditional love of a mother for her infant.
What is Positive Regard?
300
This individual conducted studies with little peter and provided evidence and a method for unconditioning fears
Who is Mary Cover Jones?
300
This concept shared by Maslow and Carl Rogers refers to the realization of one's potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
300
This system of psychotherapy includes a conceptualization of internal struggle to express basic instincts and includes definitions of the Id, ego, and super-ego.
What is Psychoanalysis?
300
The strength of an operant behavior is increased when it is followed by the presentation of a reinforcing stimulus.
What is the Law of Acquisition?
300
The process of reducing or eliminating a complex by recalling it to conscious awareness
What is Catharsis?
400
This gestalt psychologist worked with apes to provide evidence for insight learning
Who is Wolfgang Kohler?
400
This was Bandura's notion that learning can occur by observing the behavior of other people rather than experiencing the reinforcement.
What is Vicarious Reinforcement?
400
This school of thought argues that biological creatures are programmed to behave, think, feel, and learn in ways that have fostered survival for generations.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
400
Freud's idea, which was later revised, that suggested that neruoticism in adults resulted from an older adult making sexual advances toward them during childhood.
What is the Childhood seduction theory?
400
The process of barring unacceptable ideas, memories, or desires from conscious awareness, leaving them to operate on the unconscious mind
What is Repression?
500
This individual was responsible for the classic psychology understanding of cognitive short term memory storage (i.e., 7+/- 2)
Who is George Miller?
500
Loeb developed a theory of animal behavior based to this term which refers to an involuntary forced movement
What is tropism
500
This interpretation of psychology was originated by Alfred Adler and is a theory of personality that incorporates social and biological factors.
What is Individual Psychology?
500
A less extreme form of behaviorism that reflected a renewed interest in cognition and involved the concept of vicarious reinforcement. This theory also stated that it is not just the reinforcement schedule but what the individual thinks about the reinforcement schedule that is important.
What is Social Cognitive Theory?
500
Stored in the collective unconscious these are Inherited tendencies with the collective unconscious that predispose a person to behave similarly to their ancestors
What are Archetypes?
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