Personal Learning Theories

Psychology Across all Disciplines

Holistic Approach to Prior Learning
Integrating Psychology into Career and Educational Deecisions
Integrating Psychology into your Personal Life
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This person used this device as a neutral stimulus in his experiment
Who is Ivan Pavlov
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This term literally means to “think.”
What is cognition?
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He believed in multiple Intelligences.
Who is Gardner?
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The most important thing to do when answering assessment questionnaires such as those used to make career and educational decisions .
What is to be honest?
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The "hierarchy of needs" shows that there are five levels of basic needs that people need to reach; psychological, security, social, esteem, and self-actualization. The creator of this model is?
Who is Abraham Maslow
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Eric Erickson’s Theory had eight stages of development which stage this attributed to guilt
What is stage two Autonomy vs Shame and doubt.
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This French theorist is responsible for the cognitive theory of intelligence.
Who is Jean Piaget?
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Fleming's Learning style is based on this acronym: V.A.R.K to explain different ways to learn.
Visual, Aural, Reading & Writing, and Kinesthetic.
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A theory that bases work motivation on the balance between perceived contributions (inputs) and rewards (outcomes) (Spector, 2008).
What is equity theory?
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Deliberately staying focused on the positive, finding healthy ways to cope with stress, building strategies to overcome adversity, fostering supportive relationships are all examples of this.
What is integrating positive psychology into your personal life.
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In Classical Conditioning what are four conditioning used
What is Unconditioned Stimulus, Unconditioned, Response, Conditioned Stimulus, and Conditioned Response
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This type of discomfort appears when one does something against their beliefs or morals.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
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What is the main principle Offering professional help in the field of language, learning, behavior, and motor delays/disorders, these centers help children with disorders reach full potential focusing on all areas such as health, nutrition, language, motor development, cognition, and social skills.
What are Holistic Learning Centers
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A psychological test that focuses on the personality assessment of an individual in a career or educational purpose.
What is self-report ?
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Parents use these two methods when teaching children to behave a certain way. Pavlov’s method consists of behavior performed in order to reach a desired result and Skinner’s method consists of behavior performed as a means of avoiding undesired results.
What is classical conditioning and operant conditioning?
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This person suggested that rats formed mental maps of their environment when searching for food
Who is E.C. Tolman
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The Grandfather of Psychology.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
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He is the great physician of antiquity and has been known as the father of medicine
Who is Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
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What personality inventory helps individuals determine which educational and career choice is right for them?
What is the Myers Briggs
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What test was originally designed to track the progress of students?A young woman has unresolved feelings about her mother who has recently passed away. She had not spoken to her mother for two years prior to her passing because of differences in their opinions. The young woman did not have a chance to say goodbye or speak to her about her unresolved feelings. The young woman visits a psychologist to help her with her unresolved feelings towards her mother. The psychologist asks the young woman to speak to her mother as if her mother was in the room with them sitting in an empty chair. In this scenario the psychologist is using this.
What is Gestalt therapy, or what is the empty chair technique (Fifić, & Townsend, 2010)?
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B. F. Skinner used automated chambers on animals to prove this Theory
What is Operant Conditioning
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A disorder characterized by sudden mood changes, emotional instability, and lack of interpersonal relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Many British philosophers took an atomistic approach to psychology during the 18th and 19th centuries (Goodwin, 2005). This philosopher was born in 1806 and became deeply involved with political and social reforms at the age of 15 (Goodwin, 2005). This philosopher also influenced the development of the holistic approach to psychology to argue against the popular atomistic approach (Goodwin, 2005). This philosopher said that complex ideas are more important than the smaller and simpler ideas that make up the complex idea (Goodwin, 2005). In other words, the whole picture is more important than the individual parts that create the picture.
Who is John Stuart Mill
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Many educators use the techniques of positive reinforcement, punishment and extinction to change behaviors of children in the classroom.
What is behavioral psychology?
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This type of discipline in psychology requires opinion based on observation and much thinking. Heredity, environment, and other influences shape the attitudes and behaviors of different individuals around the world. Demographics can impact ones customs, traditions and psychological norms or abnormalities. This disciple must be included in psychological validity and can vary, depending on the context. What seems abnormal in one country can seem perfectly normal in another. These differences can include language, religion, clothing, and even food.
What is Cross-Cultural Psychology?
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