Brain Builders
This debate focuses on whether genetics or environment shapes behavior.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
Pavlov is most associated with this type of learning.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Changing behavior to fit in with a group is called this.
What is Conformity?
Freud believed this part of personality operates on the pleasure principle.
What is the Id?
Motivation driven by internal satisfaction.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
He studied dogs and classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Jean Piaget described this as understanding that objects still exist even when out of sight.
What is Object Permanence?
Removing something unpleasant to increase behavior is called this.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
The tendency to explain others’ behavior using personality instead of situations.
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
Maslow placed this need at the top of his hierarchy.
What is Self-Actualization?
This theory says emotions occur after physiological reactions.
What is the James-Lange Theory?
He developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This research method studies the same participants over a long period of time.
What is a Longitudinal Study?
A response that returns after extinction is called this.
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
This occurs when people put in less effort while working in groups.
What is Social Loafing?
Carl Rogers believed this was essential for healthy development.
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
The desire to belong and form relationships is called this.
What is Belongingness?
He conducted obedience experiments involving electric shocks.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
A harmful substance that can damage a developing fetus is called this.
What is a Teratogen?
Bandura’s theory that people learn by watching others.
What is Observational Learning?
The tendency to continue believing something despite evidence against it.
What is Belief Perseverance?
This theory focuses on stable personality characteristics.
What is Trait Theory?
This theory argues that arousal and emotion happen at the same time.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
This psychologist proposed stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Piaget’s stage where abstract thinking develops.
What is the Formal Operational Stage?
Skinner focused on this type of conditioning using rewards and punishments.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Milgram’s famous experiments focused on this concept.
What is Obedience?
Bandura’s idea that behavior, environment, and thoughts influence each other.
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
Emotions spreading from person to person is called this.
What is Emotional Contagion?
He developed psychoanalysis and the concepts of id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?