Concepts
Who Am I?
Theories / Schools of Psychology
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Ethics + Research
100
Define psychology
What is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour
100
Conducted the Stanford prison experiment
Philip Zimbardo
100
First School of Psychology and focused on breaking down the mental processes into the most basic components.
What is Structuralism?
100
This type of research tests whether a relationship exists between two or more variables and identifies patterns of relationships.
Correlational Research
100
What does SLA stand for? (This relates to Nils Bejerot)
Service-level Agreement
Secret local Agency
Symbionese Liberation Army
Symbolic Largiloquent Army
Symbionese Liberation Army
100
Pavlov used which animal to test this theory?
What are dogs?
200
Abraham Maslow's main contribution to psychology
What is the hierarchy of needs?
200
Coined the phrase "Stockholm Syndrome"
Nils Bejerot
200
Abraham Maslow's school of psychology
humanism
200
When does the “Role vs. Identity Confusion” stage take place according to Erikson?
12-18 years old
200
The "Father of Psychology" who first began studying experiemtnal psychology in the first psychology lab.
Who is Wundt?
200
This specific type of research is a detailed analysis of a particular person, group, business, event, etc. Used to learn more about rare examples with the goal of describing that particular thing.
Case Study
300
Conscious, Pre-Conscious, and Unconscious are part of this theory.
Freud's iceberg theory of the consciousness
300
Emphasized the importance of the ego and its defensive mechanisms, helping to explain how children's emotional conflicts influence their development.
Anna Freud
300
What did John B Watson study?
behaviorism
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Name one of Freud’s Psychosexual Theory of Development stages, and explain it.
300
Explain Harry Harlow's experiment.
Harlow was interested in understanding the behavior of infants when they are not shown enough physical attention.
He isolated monkeys from their mothers to demonstrate the negative effects it would have on them. Over time, the monkeys started staring blankly, self-mutilation, avoiding communication, and were forever changed by the experiment.
300
When conducting an experiment, why is deception sometimes necessary? Give an example.
To maintain the integrity of the experiment
Example may vary
400
William James’s focus on how mental activities help a person adapt to his or her environment is known as:
functionalism
400
Who is known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy
Carl Rogers
400
What was Ivan Pavlov’s theory / discovery called?
Classical conditioning
400
Which psychological domain would include a study of learning and conditioning?
developmental
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Explain the experiment conducted by John B. Watson
Little Albert entered the experiment without a fear of white rats. During the experiment, Watson repeatedly paired the white rat with a loud bang to create an association between the two unrelated stimuli, and little Albert began fearing the white rat without the noise.
400
What is the name of the board in charge of approving
research involving human participants?
Health Canada Research Ethics Board (REB)
500
The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.
What is introspection?
500
Proposed a theory called the 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development
Sigmund Freud
500
Name two of Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development.
Trust vs. Mistrust
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Initiative vs. Guilt
Industry vs. Inferiority
Identity vs. Confusion
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Generatively vs. Stagnation
Integrity vs. Despair
500
identify all 5 levels in the hierarchy of needs
physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, self actualization
500
5 pillars of psychology
What are biological, cognitive, developmental, social & personality, mental & physical health
500
What is the name of the council in charge of approving research involving animal subjects?
Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC)