Who's your daddy?
The father of the psychodynamic theory
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The division of the automatic nervous system that calms the body
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort that we feel we two of our thoughts are inconsistent
What is cognitive dissonance?
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.
What is sensation?
A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
What is classical conditioning?
The father of the humanistic approach
Who is Carl Rogers?
The base of the brain stem; controls heartbeat and breathing
What is the Thalamus?
The theory that we explain a person's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition
The activation, often unconscious, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response
What is priming?
An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior
What is shaping?
The FATHER of psychology itself
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
What is plasticity?
The loss of self-awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that create a feeling of anonymity
What is deindividuation?
The sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance
What is vestibular sense?
In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response
What is a conditioned stimulus?
The father of STRUCTURALISM
Who is Wilhelm Wundt (will accept Titchener as well)?
The principal that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks
What is dual processing?
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
What is social loafing?
The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage (rather than a constant amount)
What is Weber's Law?
Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate
What is latent learning?
The father of FUNCTIONALISM
Who is William James?
Areas in the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions; rather they are involved in higher functioning processes like learning, remembering, and speaking
What are association areas?
The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
What is groupthink?
The analysis that begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information
What is bottom-up processing?
In classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally-- naturally and automatically-- triggers a response
What is unconditioned stimulus?