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The outwards actions or reactions of an individual.
What is a behavior?
Having two eyes provides us with this, which makes it much easier to perceive depth.
What are binocular cues?
Ivan Pavlov discovered this famous learning method by using dogs and food.
What is classical conditioning?
The process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed.
What is facial feedback?
The emotional response toward a person, object, or situation.
What is an affective component?
Created the theory of there being a "subconscious".
Who is Sigmund Freud?
These are the four basic sensations of taste.
What is sweet, bitter, sour and salty?
The process in which certain birds and mammals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.
What is imprinting?
A type of therapy in which the main goal is to help the client increase insight into their own thoughts, feelings and actions.
What is insight therapy?
The idea that good is rewarded and bad is punished.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
This system uses hormones to influence our thoughts, behaviors, and actions.
What is the endocrine system?
A concept that is very general and not clearly defined.
What is a superordinate concept?
The psychologist who discovered touch and attachment theory by testing which mother baby monkeys preferred- a cloth mother or a hard wire mesh mother that provided food.
Who is Harry Harlow?
The creator of the psychodynamic perspective.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
He explained aggression using observational learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
The debate between whether our genetics or our environment have a heavier impact on who we are.
What is nature vs. nurture?
Basic units of sound in a language.
What are phonemes?
Used to train rats to tap a lever in order to receive some type of reward.
What is the Skinner Box?
Behavior that does not demonstrate adequate or appropriate adjustment to the environment or situation.
What is maladaptive behavior?
Occurs when individuals have a stronger performance in the presence of others.
What is social facilitation?
The human sleep-wake cycle.
What is the circadian rhythm?
The ability to reason, think abstractly, and speedily solve problems.
What is fluid intelligence?
Combines social learning theory with cognition. Children learn what is gender appropriate through language, toys, and dress.
What is Gender Schema Theory?
G.A.S.
What is general adaptation syndrome?
The tendency for people in a group to exert less when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal.
What is social loafing?