What is Psychology
Learning
Important People
Memory
100
the scientific study of behavior and its mental process.
What is the definition of psychology?
100
a relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior due to experience.
What is learning?
100
the first woman to complete all courses needed to receive a PhD, but was denied her degree from Harvard.
who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
100
an internal record or representation of some prior event or experience.
What is memory?
200
1.What is happening? 2.Why? Explain why its happening. 3. When? Prediction, will it happen again? 4.How? Can it be controlled?
What are the 4 goals of psychology?
200
it can either be positive or negative, intended to reduce the occurrence of a behavior.
What is punishment?
200
a Russian psychologist who discovered classical conditioning through his works on digestion in dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
200
Skill learning, printing and working memory
What is a cortex?
300
a system of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced.
What is the scientific method?
300
C.E.R. an emotional response that has become classically conditioned to occur to learned stimuli.
What is Conditional Emotional Response?
300
the first African American Supreme Court Judge.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
Retrieving memory using a general nonspecific clue.
What is recall?
400
It has been around for 130 years. It is relatively new.
How long has psychology been around? is it a new field of study or an old one?
400
Spontaneous Recovery
a conditioned response that briefly reappears after it has been extinguished is called____?
400
the first woman to receive her PhD in psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Who is Ruth Howard?
400
permanent change in behavior due to experience?
What is learning?
500
Little Albert and the white rats.
What is an example of behaviorism?
500
a situation in which an operant is followed by the presentation or addition of an aversive stimulus; also called POSITIVE PUNISHMENT.
What is punishment by application?
500
Francis Cecil Sumner
Who is the Father of Psychology?
500
the memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used.
What is short term memory?
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