Conditioning
This theorist developed operant conditioning
Who is B. F. Skinner?
Lack of normal sleep processes leads to...
What is sleep deprivation?
Freud's childlike, impulsive principle of personality
What is the id
Enormously influential, but heavily criticised and no longer considered scientific. Culturally important for concepts like denial, repression, complexes.
Who is Sigmund Freud
The chance of experimental results occurring by chance if the null hypothesis is true
What is the p-value?
This experiment proved that humans, not just dogs or animals, could also be classically conditioned.
Little Albert experiment
This type of attachment forms when the caregiver is emotionally available and consistently responds to the child's needs.
What is secure attachment?
Best known for research on children's cognitive development. Described the stages that children pass in developing intelligence and formal thought processes.
Who is Jean Piaget
Disorder featuring psychosis, disordered thinking, hallucinations, and/or delusions.
Schizophrenia
The learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
What is the conditioned response?
Chemical that regulates circadian rhythms.
What is melatonin?
The classic task used to check whether a child's thinking is egocentric.
Three Mountains Task
Application of psychological theories and research to solve and prevent crimes from occurring.
What is forensic psychology?
a stimulus or event that follows a response and increases the frequency of that response
What is reinforcement / reinforcing stimulus / reinforcer?
Deepest stage of sleep.
Stage 4 NREM
In the Strange Situation, after the stranger enters and converses with the parent, the parent...
What is leaving?
(leaving the room, leaves the baby with the stranger, exits, etc)
Full name of the molecule that carries genetic information for all animals (and almost all life).
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
unpleasant stimuli that increase the frequency of behaviour when they are removed
What is a negative reinforcer?
Hippocampus
The classic type of experiment used to demonstrate that a child has developed theory of mind.
False-belief tasks
(also correct: Smarties task, Sally-Anne task)
German-American psychologist known for life-stage theories, focus on ego/identity, and creating the "identity crisis."
Erik Erikson
Two types of motivation.
What are extrinsic and intrinsic motivation?