Learning and Conditioning
A form of behavioral learning in which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the power to elicit the same innate reflex produced by another stimuli.
What is classical conditioning?
Freud's theory of successive, instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times of life.
What are psychosexual stages?
An anxiety disorder involving a pathological fear of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia (phobic disorder)?
A term for any of the psychologically based therapies, including behavioral therapies and insight therapies.
What is psychotherapy?
According to this psychologist, the unconscious harbors memories, desires, and emotions that, at a conscious level, would cause one extreme anxiety.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
An operant chamber that can be programmed to deliver reinforcers and punishers contingent on an animal's behavior.
What is a Skinner box?
Two types of projective tests used to study personality
What are the Rorschach and TAT?
A disorder classified by persistent intrusions of unwelcome thoughts with irresistible urges to carry out certain acts.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Any form of psychotherapy based on the principals of behavioral learning, especially operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
What is behavioral therapy?
This psychologist conducted a famous experiment that demonstrated the concepts of learning by imitation through having children watch adults behave in an aggressive manner.
Who is Albert Bandura?
The application of an aversive stimulus after a response.
What is a positive punishment?
The Big Five traits in the Five Factor Model of Personality Traits
What are:
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism?
Characterized by impulsivity and instability in mood, relationships and self-image and possible cutting behavior.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
A behavioral therapy technique in which anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus, in a hierarchy of weakest anxiety to strongest anxiety.
What is systematic desensitization?
This psychologist demonstrated the power of the social role, through his infamous Stanford prison experiment.
Who is Phillip Zimbardo?
An operant learning technique in which a new behavior is produced by reinforcing responses that approach the desired performance.
What is shaping?
An individual's sense of where his or her life influences originate.
What is locus of control?
Characterized by preoccupation with thinness and weight, excessive exercise and refusal to eat.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
As a classical conditioning procedure, this counterconditioning involves presenting individuals with an attractive stimulus paired with an unpleasant stimulation in order to condition a repulsive reaction such as the use of Antabuse to help treat Alcohol Dependence.
What is aversion therapy?
This psychologist believed that the essential crisis of adolescence is discovering one's true identity amid the confusion of playing many different roles for different audiences in an expanding social world.
Who is Erik Erickson?
The type of learning and the psychologist using it that caused Little Albert to fear rabbits
What is Classical or Pavlovian Conditioning and who is John Watson?
Healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to pursue and interest in "higher" ideals, such as truth, justice, and beauty (comes from Maslow's theories).
What are self-actualizing personalities?
May be characterized by sadness, tearfulness, insomnia or hypersomnia, anhedonia and suicidal thoughts
What is Depressive Disorder?
The neurotransmitter believed to be blocked by treatment for Schizophrenia with antipsychotic medication such as Haldol.
What is Dopamine?
This psychologist conducted an experiment in which he measured individuals' conformity to authority. In doing so, the participant was put into a position where they were told they were administering electric shocks for incorrect answers. The behavior being measured was how high the participant would go (with voltage) under an authority's command.
Who is Stanley Milgram?