Personality
People
Learning
Thinking
Misc. Vocab
100
Freud claims that our personality develops out of a continuing struggle between these two things:
What is the Id and Superego?
100
The Father of Psychonalytic thought
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
When we learn by being shown how to do something.
What is Modeling?
100
A time in our development when we are most sensitive to external factors
What is a Critical Period?
100
Witness reports that can be unreliable
What is Eyewitness Testimony?
200
What is the "Middle Man" that works to balance the Id and the Superego?
What is the Ego?
200
He created a hierarchy of needs that leads to self-actualization
Who is Abraham Maslow?
200
Rewarding responses that are CLOSE to the desired behavior we are looking for.
What is Shaping?
200
An experimental group of participants with similar characteristics
What is a cohort?
200
The gender that we feel we really are
What is Gender Identity?
300
The defense mechanism we use when we push our feelings and thoughts into the unconscious mind.
What is Repression?
300
He claimed there were four stages of cognitive development, the last one being "Formal Operations".
Who is Jean Piaget?
300
An aversive stimulus that leads to a decrease in a specific behavior
What is Punishment?
300
Problem solving strategy that involves attempting one solution after another until finding one that works.
What is Trial and Error?
300
Two year period of rapid physical changes between ages 7 and 16.
What is Puberty?
400
The method of personality that involves asking a number of direct questions to an individual
What is The Interview?
400
He conditioned dogs by using a bell when they received their food.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
400
A method of learning that causes us to see the connection between our behavior and the consequences of our behavior
What is Operant Conditioning?
400
Cognitive categories for grouping events, objects or processes
What are Concepts?
400
Drugs that slow down the Central Nervous System
What are Depressants?
500
A free floating fear with no easily definable source.
What is Anxiety?
500
He claimed that our Moral development begins with following the rules we are given by others.
Who is Lawerence Kohlberg?
500
When a stimulus leads to an INCREASE in the frequency of a behavior
What is Reinforcement?
500
The tendency to accept conclusions that conform to one's beliefs
What is the Belief Bias Effect?
500
Parenting style that is hands-off and makes few demands on the child
What is Permissive?
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