Cognitive Psych
What is the multiple intelligence theory?
Studying the digestion of dogs, he showed that a dog can be trained to salivate to the sound of a bell
Who is Pavlov?
Conducted at Stanford, it showed the impact of adult modeling on child behavior
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment? (or Social Learning Theory)
Believing one is more important than in reality
What is delusion of grandeur?
In order to be noticed, changes to a stimulus must be proportional to the original stimulus
What is Weber's Law?
Unable to find difference uses for common tools to solve a problem
What is functional fixedness?
Considered the most behaviorist of them all
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Participants believed that they were shocking another participant for answering a question incorrectly
What is the Milgram Obedience Study?
Fear of something bad happening and being unable to escape
What is agoraphobia?
Close objects are perceived as a group
What is proximity?
Believing that if you keep playing, you will eventually win
What is the gambler's fallacy?
John Watson conducted this experiment to show the classical conditioning of a baby
What is the Baby Albert Experiment?
Showed a "situational hypothesis" about human behavior
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
Higher levels of this are present in the schizophrenic brain
What is dopamine?
Pain takes priority over other messages
What is Gate Control Theory?
Thinking about your own thought processes and learning
What is metacognition?
Taking away a teenager's phone for one week because of a bad report card
What is negative punishment?
Harry Harlow's experiments showed the importance of this
What is physical touch/comfort?
Unexpected travel away from home accompanied by amnesia
What is fugue?
As we move, closer objects appear to pass faster than objects far awar
What is motion parallax?
Making quick, but accurate inferences about a person based on limited information
What is thin slicing?
Harassing a teenager until they clean the bathroom as instructed
What is negative reinforcement?
Participants were willing to change their correct answer to an incorrect answer in order to conform with the group
What is the Solomon Asch Conformity Experiment?
Characterized by unstable moods, poor self image, and unstable relationships
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
The difference in the images captured by the left and right eyes is greater when an object is close to us
What is retinal disparity?