Famous Phycologists
This Psychologist focused on researching Classical conditioning, and worked on conditioned stimulus/response
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The theory that the spinal cord has the ability to Gate, or "block", pain signals or allow pain receptors to reach the brain.
What is Gate Control Theory?
This experiment showed the influence adult actions have on children with the use of a blow up Clown. They had two groups, one that was nice to the clown toy, and one who were violent to it. The kids showed more violence when they saw the adults acting that way as well.
What is the Bobo the Clown Experiment?
It is the Conversion of one form of energy, such as light waves, into another form, like neural impulses that our brain can interpret
What is Transduction?
The three categories all Psychoactive drugs can be put into are _____, ______ and _____
What are Stimulants, Depressants, and Hallucinogens?
An Austrian Psychologists, also nicknamed "the father of Psychology" who created multiple theories about the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This dream theory was created by Sigmund Freud; he believed that dreams provide a psychic safety valve to discharge unacceptable feelings from the subconscious mind
What is Wish fulfilment theory?
An experiment done by B.F Skinner, he wanted to test operant conditioning by having rats sit in a box with a lever that would release food when pulled. He saw that as the rat learned the lever gave food, the rat would pull the lever more often.
What is Skinners Box Experiment?
While their counterpart is responsible for our ability to see shapes and size, these are responsible for our ability to see colors.
What are Cones?
In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt opened the first ______ at the University of Leipzig in Germany
What is Psychological Laboratory?
This Psychologists, born on May 20th, 1904, expanded on the ideas of behaviorism and researched the effects of different types of reinforcement with rats.
Who is B.F Skinner?
The ability to tell the difference between degrees of stimulation, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage.
An example is weight needing to be different by 2%
What is Weber's Law?
This experiment was done to test the ability of latent learning, the idea that we subconsciously memorize things but don't always use the information. The experiment found that when rats were placed in a maze, they had subconsciously memorized the layout, but didn't show it until there was a reason to (i.e cheese at the end)
What is Tolman's 3 rat experiment?
It is Partly conscious, consisting of parental and societal standards. It is Popularly known as the “Conscience” and Operates on a “Morality Principle,” seeking to enforce ethical conduct
What is Super ego?
The strength of Correlational studies is measured by the Correlation Coefficient which is always expressed between ____ and ____
What is -1 and 1?
A Swiss psychologist who believed that our cognitive abilities were the driving force behind our biological development (maturation). he believed that we gain certain abilities as we move through different stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Benjamin Whorf theorized that language can shape our thoughts and perceptions, he Used various examples to justify his theory such as
-Hopi Indians do not have a past tense in their language and therefore rarely acknowledge anything but the present and future
What is Linguistic Determinism?
This experiment researched conformity, and had a test where participants were given three lines of different length, and they had to say which one was the longest. The experiment found that people were very likely to conform to the masses answer, even if they knew it was the wrong asnwer.
What is the Asch Conformity Experiment?
The goal of this treatment is to bring repressed thoughts/feelings to the consciousness to allow person to deal with them.
some Techniques are free association, stream of consciousness dialogue, etc.
What is Psychoanalysis?
These are the three individual point in the Consummate love Triangle Theory
What is Passion, Commitment, and intimacy?
This Psychologist created a theory on personality stating that personality is broken into 3 categories: Cardinal traits, Central traits, and secondary traits.
Who is Gordon Allport?
This theory states that psychological development is broken into 7 stages throughout someone's life,
Trust/Mistrust
Autonomy/Doubt
Infinitive/Guilt
Industry/Inferiority
Identity/Role confusion
Intimacy/Isolation
Generativity/Stagnation
What is Erikson's Theory?
This experiment demonstrated that the baby monkeys spent significantly more time with their cloth mother than with their wire mother. Harlow removed young monkeys from their natural mothers shortly after birth and left them to be "raised" by these metal/fake mother monkeys.
What is the Monkey Mom experiment?
This stage of Piaget's theory happen at 7-11 years. Concepts attached to concrete situations. Time, space, and quantity are understood/applied, but not as independent concepts
What is Concrete Operation?
Although usually shortened to the its acronym "DSM", this is the full name.
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?