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The father of modern scientific psychology
Who is William Wundt?
_________in psychology are actions or reactions of an organism in response to stimuli.
What is behavior?
Freud's theory of development is called this
What is the Psychosexual Developmental Theory?
You smell sunscreen and instantly feel relaxed, thinking of the beach. This is an example of this kind of learning.
What is classical conditioning?
The only type of mental health professional who is able to prescribe medication
What is a psychiatrist?
Famous psychologist who is known for their whacky theories of development and the psychoanalytic approach to therapy
Who is Sigmond Freud?
The process of receiving, converting, and transmitting information from the world to the brain.
What is sensation?
This personality theory includes openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What is the Big Five trait theory?
A professor assigns participation points for showing up to class. This is an example of this concept from operant conditioning.
What is positive reinforcement?
Birds have more of these types of vision cells which allow them to see a larger spectrum of colors than humans
What are cones?
The psychologist who proposed a stage theory of psychosocial development, including the concept of identity vs. role confusion.
Who is Erik Erikson?
A type of memory strategy that involves grouping information into meaningful units.
What is chunking?
This social theory explains why people favor their own group and may discriminate against outsiders.
What is social identity theory?
A therapist asks a client to challenge their distorted thoughts about failure. This technique is part of this therapy.
What is cognitive therapy?
The two social constructs studied in Milgram's shock experiment were
What are authority and obedience?
The developmental psychologist who studied infant attachment using the Strange Situation experiment.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
The phenomenon where a stimulus similar to the conditioned stimulus elicits the same response.
What is generalization?
This theoretical approach links modern human behavior to ancestral behaviors often related to adaptive survival
What is Evolutionary Theory?
A child sees their older sibling being rewarded for doing chores and starts helping out too. This is an example of this kind of learning.
What is observational learning (or modeling)?
This is the limit for human long-term brain storage capacity
What is unlimited/infinite?
This Swiss psychologist revolutionized our understanding of child cognition with a four-stage model of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
A reinforcement schedule where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of behaviors.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
This theory suggests we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when our beliefs and actions don’t align.
What is the cognitive dissonance theory?
The medication type likely prescribed to Avi, who has been experiencing hallucinations and delusions and has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
What is an antipsychotic?
Imagine you are shown a picture of a triangle and asked to solve for c. The use of Pythagorean theorem (a2 + b2 = c2 ) is an example of this type of problem-solving.
What is an algorithm?