Theories
Attributing human emotion and behavior to biological causes. Such as nature in the nature vs nurture debate.
Biological Theories
Founder of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential doctors of the 20th century.
Sigmund Freud
Blocking external events from awareness. If some situation is too much to handle, the person refuses to deal with it.
Denial
A school of psychology that focuses on how mental and behavior processing function, adapt and survive.
Functionalism
A mental image or best example of a category.
Prototype.
A theory of motivation that is based on several assumptions like if intrinsic motivation is better than extrinsic motivation.
Self-determination Theory.
A psychologist known for the famous "Bobo Doll" experiment as well as his concepts of self efficacy and social learning.
Albert Bandura
An unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.
Repression
The first women to receive a psychology ph D.
Margaret Floy Washburn
A simple thinking strategy/shortcut that allows us to make judgements easily.
Heuristic.
Learned Helplessness
Created Maslow's hierarchy of needs and is the founder of humanistic psychology.
Abraham Maslow
Attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feeling and motives to another person.
Projection
The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species.
Natural Selection
A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions.
Conformation Bias
A theory of motivation that focuses on the reason why people behave in certain ways.
Attribution Theory
Best known in his work of animal research, comparative psychology and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and educational psychology.
Edward Thorndike
Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object.
Displacement
The differing complementary views from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon.
Levels of Analysis
In a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.
Phoneme
The theory that interpersonal relationships that explains how people make decisions about who to enter into relationships with and what to do in those relationships.
Social Exchange Theory
Worked on his work on motivational need theory. Developed new tests such as Thematic Apperception Test.
David McClelland
This is a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress.
Regression
The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes and traits.
Psychometrics
Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram "go car" using mostly nouns and verbs.
Telegraphic Speech