Historical People & Areas of Psychology
Known as the father of psychology.
Who is Wundt?
A testable prediction in research.
What is a Hypothesis?
The part of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Reduced reaction to a drug after repeated use.
What is Tolerance?
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.
What is Learning?
Putting information into memory.
What is Encoding?
Desire to have positive relationships with others.
What is Need for Affiliation?
Developed the operant conditioning chamber.
Who is Skinner?
Observing people or animals in their natural environment without interference.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
The brain structure that consolidates memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
The interpretation and organization of sensory information.
What is Perception?
A mental shortcut that is fast but error-prone.
What is a Heuristic?
Very brief memory lasting 1–2 seconds.
What is Sensory Memory?
Trying to achieve a goal to satisfy internal desires.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
The area of psychology focused on diagnosing and treating psychological disorders.
What is Clinical Psychology?
A research design that studies different age groups at the same time.
What is a Cross-Sectional Design?
The body’s response to stress that increases ability to react.
What is the Fight-or-Flight Response?
The minimum amount of a stimulus needed to detect it 50% of the time.
What is the Absolute Threshold?
A neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to produce a response.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of view.
What is Object Permanence?
Balanced, steady physiological state.
What is Homeostasis?
The area of psychology that studies thinking processes.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
The group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment.
What is the Control Group?
A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep.
What is Insomnia?
Fluid-filled tubes in the inner ear that help with balance.
What are the Semicircular Canals?
The ability to recognize and control emotions.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Parenting style that has rules but negotiates.
What is Authoritative Parenting?
Achieving one’s potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
The theorist who believed the unconscious influences thoughts and behaviors.
Who is Freud?
The term for repeating a study to confirm previous results.
What is Replication?
A state of consciousness in which the person is highly susceptible to suggestion.
What is Hypnosis?
The process of converting a physical stimulus to a neural impulse.
What is Transduction?
Learning by watching others.
What is Observational Learning?
Traits present at birth that influence behavior and reactions.
What is Temperament?
Cultural expectations related to expressing emotions in social situations.
What are Display Rules?