Behaviorism: REMIX!
Word to Your Mother
Man or Beast?
Move Over, Freud
Compute This
100
A precise description of procedures and how variables are measured within an experiment.
What is an operational definition?
100
Caused by a "wandering uterus" or built up sexual tension, this malady was a common diagnosis for women through the 1950s.
What is hysteria?
100
Attempting to treat mental illness by releasing "bad" or "excess" blood from a patient.
What is bloodletting?
100
The clinical training model focusing on treatment and diagnosis over research, resulting in a PsyD.
What is the Vail model?
100
Meaningful wholes the mind creates by organizing accumulated experiences.
What are schemata?
200
Any type of reinforcer that is rewarding in itself and directly connected to survival.
What is a primary reinforcer?
200
The emotional release occurring when a patient discovered the root of his/her symptom.
What is catharsis?
200
Programs and interventions (advocated by Clifford Beers) aimed at PREVENTING mental illness.
What is mental hygiene?
200
The fact that behaviorism could not account for complex linear sequences of behavior such as snowboarding, playing an instrument, or using language.
What is the serial order problem?
300
A general knowledge of a maze's structure and pattern that gave lab mice a sense of which direction to go.
What is a cognitive map?
300
Some examples include repression, projection, and sublimation.
What are ego defense mechanisms?
300
The ability to uncritically accept an idea or command suggested by a hypnotist.
What is suggestibility?
300
The humanistic idea of reaching one's full potential in life.
What is self-actualization?
300
Common principles shared by all languages, according to Chomsky.
What are language universals?
400
According to Tolman, any internal factor that cannot be seen but can be inferred based on observed behavior.
What is an intervening variable?
400
What your dream APPEARS to be about.
What is manifest content?
400
Possession, witchery, sinfulness, excess blood, and imbalanced humors.
What were early supposed causes of mental illness?
400
Carl Rogers' method of counseling the mentally ill consisting of being genuine, showing warm regard, and being empathetic.
What is client-centered therapy?
400
Reorganizing mental data to squeeze more information into each "chunk."
What is recoding?
500
From B. F. Skinner's view, any internal (and unseen) factor proposed to mediate the relationship between a presented stimuli and an observed behavior.
What is an explanatory fiction?
500
Alfred Adler's theory that certain mental illnesses come from trying to compensate for feelings of inferiority early in life.
What is the inferiority complex?
500
This individual created the York Retreat, at which the mentally ill could work, recreate, and receive visitors in a rural setting.
Who is William Tuke?
500
Eliminating a fear by gradually introducing the feared object while simultaneously providing food to the subject.
What is direct conditioning?
500
An area of study which attempts to understand whether nonhuman, technological systems can act with intelligence.
What is artificial intelligence?
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