CSUF Psychology
Fieldwork hours required for PSYC 495 (internship)
What is 120 hours?
The use of scientific methods in research
What is to observe, predict, test, interpret, and communicate?
Known for classical conditioning & experimenting with dogs using a bell
What is Ivan Pavlov?
Proposes human behavior is influenced by our unconscious and id, ego, and superego
What is Psychoanalytic theory?
An experiment that studied roles and power dynamics, done on a campus
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The current Chair of the Psychology Department
What is Dr. Jennifer Trevitt?
A hypothesis
What is a specific, testable prediction about the relationship between 2+ variables?
Known for studying aggressive behaviors with a Bobo doll
Proposes environmental rewards and punishments condition humans more than internal thoughts
What is Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner)?
An experiment that studies children's behavior and proposed social learning theory
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
A program that provides mentoring and outreach to psychology majors and student interests in psychology
A case study
What is: a study designed to observe one person/case over a period of time?
Known for psychoanalysis & studying the unconscious mind through talk therapy to understand human behavior
What is Sigmund Freud?
Proposes children learn and think differently through four stages of sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages
Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
An experiment that studied classical conditioning with loud noises and a white rat
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
The list of experimental psychology courses
What is Learning & Memory (302), Sensation & Perception (303), Comparative Animal Behavior (304), Cognitive Psychology (305), and Biopsychology (306)?
A research design
What is a plan/roadmap that tells a researcher how to conduct a study & answer a specific question?
Known for studying operant conditioning using a chamber and rats
What is B.F. Skinner?
Proposes humans have innate goodness, free will, personal growth, and self-actualization
What is Humanistic Theory (Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow)?
Experiment tested how far ordinary people would go in obeying an authority figure to inflict electrical shocks on an innocent stranger
What is the Milgram Obedience Experiment?
Tracks the psychology department offers
What is: Clinical, Gender & Sexuality, Health and Well-being, Industrial/Organizational, Multicultural, and Neuroscience Studies?
Correlational designs
What is: when a study measures 2+ variables and their relationship with one another; does not show causation?
Known for studying cognitive development, showing children's thinking through 4 developmental stages
What is Jean Piaget?
Proposes people learn new behavior through observation and modeling rather than conditioning alone
What is Social Learning Theory (Albert Bandura)?
Experiment that studied how social pressure from a group can make someone change their correct answer to a wrong one
What is the Asch Conformity Experiment?