Social Psych & Personality
This term refers to the tendency to overestimate the influence of personal characteristics and underestimate situational factors in explaining others' behavior.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This term describes a stimulus that increases the likelihood of a behavior when presented after the behavior.
What is a reinforcer?
This mental process involves acquiring, storing, and using knowledge
What is congnition?
This psychologist is famous for his hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This type of conditioning involves learning through association, as demonstrated by Pavlov's dogs.
What is classical conditioning?
This phenomenon occurs when individuals are less likely to help a victim when others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
This type of learning occurs when an organism learns through the consequences of its actions.
What is operant conditioning?
This is the term for the mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that often lead to a solution but are not guaranteed to be correct.
What are heuristics?
This psychologist developed the theory of psychosocial development, outlining eight stages of human development.
This term describes the process of reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior.
What is shaping?
This type of person is characterized by a high level of self-esteem and a strong sense of personal identity.
What is an individualistic personality?
This behaviorist proposed that behavior could be understood without considering mental states.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This type of memory involves the recall of facts and events, often referred to as "declarative memory."
What is explicit memory?
This psychologist is known for his work on the theory of multiple intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
This phenomenon occurs when a previously extinguished response re-emerges after a period of time.
What is spontaneous recovery?
This term highlights that actions are attributed to characteristics/ personal traits, as well as environment
This term refers to the gradual changes in behavior that occur as a result of repeated exposure to a stimulus.
What is habituation?
This cognitive bias leads individuals to rely too heavily on the first piece of information they encounter.
What is anchoring bias?
This psychologist is famous for his work in behaviorism and the Little Albert experiment.
Who is John B. Watson? (Behaviorism)
This type of reinforcement is given after a set number of responses, such as a punch card for a free coffee.
What is fixed-ratio reinforcement?
This psychologist is known for his research on social conformity and conducted the famous line judgment experiment.
Who is Solomon Asch?
This concept, developed by Albert Bandura, describes learning by observing others.
What is observational learning?
This psychologist is known for his research on cognitive development in children and proposed the stages of cognitive growth.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This psychologist introduced the concept of the unconscious mind and is known for his theories on psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This psychologist conducted experiments on dogs and is known as the father of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?