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This method of studying psychology focused exclusively on rewards and punishments. Insisting that was the ONLY kind of learning.
What is Behaviorism?
While this person's theories of the unconscious are quite well known, and were widely influential, they were wrong about pretty much everything.
Who was Sigmund Frued?
If you have this, then you understand that other people may have different thoughts than your own. Including different emotional responses!
What is Theory of Mind?
...that this kind of memory has no maximum time limit.
What is Long Term Memory?
Identifying that two similar stimuli may need you to have the same response is called this.
What is Generalization?
Breaking the mind down into it's simplest parts was the goal of this ill-fated early study effort.
What is Structuralism?
This person carefully observed his own children to show how children's mental abilities change as they get older. While his theories had a couple mistakes in them, we still use the general framework he came up with today.
Who was Piaget?
If an emotion comes with a high energy level, then we would scientifically say it is an emotion that is high in this.
What is Arousal?
...that this term we used to use for brief, limited capacity memory is out dated, as it does not fully account for human abilities.
What is Short Term Memory?
This refers to being objective about things, or being able to separate reality from your immediate perception.
What is Operational Thinking?
This describes the, incorrect, thought that it is the raw pattern of stimuli that we receive with our senses that determines the experiences we have in life.
What is Philosophical Realism?
His famous "box" might be a small cage, but is shockingly one of the nicest things historical psychology did to rats.
Who was B.F. Skinner?
Someone being sad may cause them to be less likely to engage in most things. While it may not sound like it, that makes this low motivation sadness' this.
What is an Action Tendency?
...that this describes not just an event occurring, but someone's specific, likely emotional, experience of it.
What is an Episodic Memory?
In the context of reinforcement, this does not mean "bad", but instead means removing something.
What is Negative?
Study of this topic was not considered important in the US. That is, until Harry Harlow made some questionable decisions about raising Monkeys in 1958.
What is Attachment?
Alexander von Helmholtz discovered this element of how our nervous system works. Good thing nerve signals can't get tickets...
What is the transmission speed?
If our bodies had one, specific response for ALL emotions, and then we only knew WHICH emotion we were feeling by determining what caused the response, we would be following this theory.
What is the Two Factor Theory of Emotions?
...that this area may be important for new memories, but is specifically not where memories are actively stored.
What is the Hippocampus?
This style or reinforcement is general; all that it requires is that reinforcement be Inconsistent in some way. Yet any casino owner will tell you that it is very effective...
What is Intermittent Reinforcement?
Someone examining how people change as the go through their lives is studying this.
What is Developmental Psychology?
This philosopher seemed to really like refuting John Locke, as he proposed both Philosophical Idealism and Philosophical Nativism. He also comes up a lot in The Good Place.
Who was Emmanuel Kant?
Though this method of emotional control may be quite common, it is also very ineffective.
What is Suppression?
...that this, which means your general understanding of a thing or situation, can impact your memories. It's not just about babies learning.
What is a Schema?
This is what someone needs to use if they want to come up with an entirely new way to solve a problem, instead of using things they already know.
What is Fluid Intelligence (or Fluid Skills)?