In the Beginning
primary proponents of wave 1
Who are William James and G. Stanley Hall?
The variable that you measure
What is the dependent variable
Her students panic and outwardly cry of impending faillure whenever the teacher gives a test. What type of behavior have the students learned.
What is learned helplessness.
Gestalt Psychologist, He was against human thought and behavior. Tried to examine a person as a whole not just parts of them.
Who is Max Wertheimer?
Cues that depend on the use of two eyes are considered to be
Binocular Cues
This chart is the most likely candidate to display descriptive statistical date. The _________ is also sometimes referred to as a bar graph.
What is a histogram?
looking at the whole perspective
What is gestalt psychology?
The variable that you manipulate.
What is the independent variable
A teacher rewards a student for sitting quietly for ten minutes on Monday, fifteen minutes on Tuesday, twenty minutes on Wednesday, and thirty minutes on Thursday. What is this an example of?
What is shaping?
Explores how mental and behavioral processes function– how they enable organism to adapt and survive
functionalism
The perception that we direct and create our own fate
What is internal locus of control
The test scores for AP Unit 1 were: 68, 79, 83, 100, 56, 89, and 88. The median of the data set is...
What is 83?
Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation is known as...
Naturalistic or Observation
A participant must sign this which allows them to choose to participate and be free to stop at anytime
What is informed consent?
An individual’s fear of dogs that is lost as the individual is exposed to dogs in nonthreatening situations is referred to by behaviorists as a fear that has been
What is extinguished.
Will accept extinction although this is classical conditioning.
This leading behaviorist rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This is the tendency to look toward support for your own beliefs or see what you want to see in your results.
What is Confirmation Bias
The test scores for AP were: 5, 2, 4, 1, 1, 5, and 3. The mean of the data set is...
What is 3?
As a grad student, Julie studies the ways in which people's relationships shape their behavior.
What is the social cultural perspective?
An experiment where the researcher and the participant do not know which is the placebo and which is the medicine.
What is Double Blind experiment
A child who learns that spoons are tableware and then correctly calls forks and knives tableware is demonstrating
What is stimulus generalization.
*will accept generalization
An ethics review panel established by a publicly funded research institution to evaluate all proposed research by that institution
What is the IRB or Institutional Review Board?
The initial stage of learning is
Acquisition
Which of the following coefficient correlations express the strongest relationship between two variables? -.91, -.71, -.32, +.8, +.908
-.91
school of thought that emphasized consciousness into basic elements or structures of thought using introspection
What is structuralism?
The process of randomly choosing group to participate from the population.
What is Random Sample
The terms "modeling" and "imitation" are most closely associated with which type of learning theory.
What is Social Learning Theory
Which partial reinforcement schedule that is most resistant to extinction?
What is variable ratio
A technique that enables a person to control physiological responses that are normally involuntary, such as level of blood pressure, is known as
What is biofeedback
*remember the video of the individual hooked up to nervous system feedback monitor.
The type of correlation that shows the amount of students who wear sweatshirts increase as the temperature decreases.
What is negative correlation?