Conducted the original bobo Doll study that dealt with aggression and modeling.
Who is Albert Bandura?
100
A Russian physiologist that studied Classical Conditioning
[hint: Salivating dogs, stimulus and response]
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
Phenomenon where people agree to a small request now will probably later comply with a larger request.
What is foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
100
The relatively limitless, permanent memory where information is stored, which may be categorized as explicit or implicit memory.
What is Long-Term Memory (LTM)?
100
The extent to which a test yields consistent results.
What is reliability?
200
Major Psychological Theorist that developed the levels of consciousness into an "Iceberg."
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
American psychologist that studied Operant Conditioning.
[hint: food pellets, reinforcement and punishment]
Who is BF Skinner?
200
Brain structure that controls the production of speech.
What is Broca's area?
200
The smallest speech unit that carries meaning.
What is a phoneme?
200
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it's supposed to.
What is validity?
300
Studied Psychodynamic theories along with introversion and extroversion.
Who is Carl Jung?
300
The variable manipulated by the researcher in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
300
Brain structure responsible for language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's area?
300
Developmental child psychologist that developed the four stages of cognitive development (Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete operational, Formal operational).
Who is Jean Piaget?
300
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state.
What is homeostasis?
400
Set the Hierarchy of needs in order to explain human drives and growth.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
400
A research tool in which a subject is observed in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
400
A mental predisposition to perveive one thing and not another.
What is a perceptual set?
400
The only theory of emotion that holds that the cognitive interpretation of environmental events plays a key role in emoption.
What is the Two-factor theory?
400
A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
500
Studied obedience through an experiment involving voltage.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
500
The theory that proposes that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by finding someone to blame.
What is the Scapegoat Theory?
500
A fundamental concept of learning that contains the principles of positive/negative reinforcement/punishment.
What is operant conditioning?
500
Waves of brain activity during stage 2 of sleep that are visible on an EEG.
What are sleep spindles?
500
A form of treatment or therapy through relaxation techniques to gradually become less sensitive to anxiety-provoking situations (phobias, fears, and aversions).