Important People
Analytical Psychologist who focused on working to balance conscious and unconscious thoughts
Carl Jung
How individuals interact and relate with others and how such interactions can affect behavior
Social Psychology
What is encoding of details like time, space, frequency and the meaning of words?
automatic processing
Learning that occurs is tied to naturally occurring responses to stimulation
What is classical conditioning
Behavior that is not acceptable is behavior that we try to ___________
Suppress
Name two people that were principle contributors to Behavioral psych
Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
transparent eye structure that focuses light rays falling on the retina
the lens
transduction in the eye occurs here
the retina
A toddler uses the potty, his dad rewards him with a sticker. This action is an example of what type of operant conditioning?
Positive reinforcement
Known as the father of behaviorism
John B Watson
Focuses on how individual health is directly related to or affected by biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences
Health Psychology
What are the 3 types of encoding?
Semantic, visual, and acoustic
More voluntary learning and is dependent upon the consequences of our actions
What is operant conditioning
An experiment that studied aggressiveness and violent behaviors. Showed that children learn from adults
Babdura's Bobo doll experiment
Name two people that were principle contributors to Humanistic psych
Carl Rogers
Abraham Maslow
small knobs that secrete chemicals
terminal buds
part of the brain that controls the pituitary gland
Hypothalamus
when you remember the first and last items in a series and the middle set the worst
serial position effect
Concentrated on how behavior was affected by is consequences
B.F. Skinner
Focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and problematic patterns of behavior
Clinical Psychology
What are the 4 parts of the brain that are highly involved in memory?
the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, and cerebellum
Part of the brain that helps with forming new memories
Hippocampus
A ___________________ describes the actions or operations that will be used to measure or control a variable
operational definition
Name two people that were principle contributors to Psychoanalytic psych
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Alfred Adler
cells found throughout the nervous system that provide various types of support for nuerons
glia
the defense mechanism illustrated when a person who doesn't get a promotion says they didn't want it anyway
rationalization
encoding information meaningfully by associating it with knowledge already in memory is known as
semantic encoding
Focused on temperament and believed that our personality traits are influenced by our genetic inheritance
Hans and Sybil Eysenck
Focuses on psychological aspects regarding sports and physical performance
Neurotransmitter linked to rewards, pleasure and motivation
Dopamine
What is not the same thing (but often mistaken for) as negative reinforcement?
Punishment
A system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations
A theory
Name two people that were principle contributors to Cognitive psych
Jean piaget
Noam Chomsky
Herbert Simon
axons that carry information inward to the central nervous system from the periphery
Afferent nerve fibers
Jane is organized, plans ahead and keeps her workspace very neat. This indicates that she scores high in this BIG 5 trait
conscientiousness
in this parenting style, the parent is nurturing, supportive and responsive, yet still firm and sets limits
Authoritative
Created a personality assessment used in the 1940s called the Myers-Briggs test
Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers
Dealing with the justice system and studies individual mental competency
Forensic Psychology
What does the atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory state?
That storage is the creation of a permanent record of information
When no organism receives a reinforcer each time it displays a behavior
Continuous reinforcer
Learning that occurs but is not observed in behavior until there is a reason to demonstrate it
Latent learning
Name two people that were principle contributors to Evolutionary psych
David Buss
Martin Daly
Margo Wilson
Leda Cosmides
John Tooby
structure found near the base of the forebrain that is involved in the regulation of basic biological needs
hypothalamus
this term describes the phenomenon where an individual performs better on simpler well practiced tasks when in the presence of others rather than alone
social facilitation
THIS PERSONALITY DISORDER IS MARKED BY A PERVASIVE PATTERN OF DISREGARD FOR AND VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, LACK OF EMPATHY, AND OFTEN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
ANTISOCIAL