Famous Figures
Studied the behavior of dogs using food and a bell
What is Ivan Pavlov
Unique psychological qualities influence a variety of characteristic patterns of behavior and ways of thinking that determine a person's adjustment to the environment
What is personality
irrational fear of some specific object, activity, or situation that causes a compelling desire to avoid it (stimulus-reaction)
What is a Phobia
We learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished
What is the Social Learning Theory
What course do you need to take before you can take most other psychology classes?
What is Intro to Psychology
Studied the way rewards and punishments shape our actions
What is B. F. Skinner
Freud's term for what you are presently aware of
What is the conscious mind
a mental condition characterized by distortion of reality resulting in the inability to communicate or function within one's environment
What is psychosis
Children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be male or female and they adjust their behavior accordingly
What is Gender-Schema Theory
What are the 3 psych developmental courses offered at SHU?
What is child development, adult development, and adolescent development
The father of psychoanalysis
What is Sigmund Freud
A style of psychotherapy originally developed by Sigmund Freud in which the therapist helps the person gain insight into the unconscious sources of his or her problems
What is psychoanalysis
Displaying emotions that are unsuited to the situation is called
What is inappropriate affect
Sigmund Freud: id, ego, superego, and free association therapy; hedonistic (self-centered) unconscious; deterministic: no agency
What is the Psychodynamic theory
How many Research Design Analysis courses do you have to take?
What is 2 (RD 1 and RD2)
Believed that psychology should be an objective science based on observable behavior. This idea created behaviorism
What is John B. Watson
Our behavior leads a person to act in accordance with our expectations for that person
What is a Self-fulling prophecy
The combined impact of different drugs multiplying or potentiating each other's effects is known as the _____ effect.
What is synergistic
Abraham Maslow: hierarchy of needs, with "self-actualization" as the highest achievement; soft biologically-based determinism: conditional positive regard somewhat determines choice; selfishness
Who is the head/director of psychology at SHU?
Who is Dawn Melzer
Tested on children's intelligence. Found that children of similar age made similar mistakes. Studies led him to believe children's mind develops through a series of stages from birth to adulthood
What is Jean Piaget
The process by which we explain our own behavior and that of others
What is Attribution
Among the biological treatments for reducing depression, _____ appears to be somewhat more effective than antidepressant drugs
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Abraham Maslow: hierarchy of needs, with "self-actualization" as the highest achievement; soft biologically-based determinism: conditional positive regard somewhat determines choice; selfishness
What is the Humanistic Theory
Instead of a capstone to graduate what 3 options does the psych program offer you to take?
What is Research Assiantship, Psychology Internship, and Adv. Psychological Research