people
an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the development of the attachment theory. She designed the strange situation procedure to observe early emotional attachment between a child and their primary caregiver.
Mary Ainsworth
groundbreaking study on aggression that demonstrated that children are able to learn through the observation of adult behavior.
Bobo doll experiment
an approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.
Psychodynamic
when an experiment involved deception, participants are told complete and truthful information about the experiment at its conclusion.
Debriefing
serves as a relay station for almost all information that comes and goes to the cortex. It plays a role in pain sensation, attention and alertness
Thalamus
a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.
Ivan Pavlov
a psychological experiment conducted in August 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.
Stanford Prison Experiment
focuses on the view that each person is unique and has free will to change at any time in their life. It believes we are responsible for our own happiness. It emphasises how our perception of the world is subjective therefore it is an opposing approach to any scientific attempts to explain human behaviour.
Humanistic
A research design that examines how individuals develop by studying the same sample over a long period of time
Longitudinal study
is a small, pea-sized endocrine gland located at the base of your brain below your hypothalamus. It releases several important hormones and controls the function of many other endocrine system glands.
Pituitary gland
an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy.
Carl Rogers
An operant conditioning chamber is a laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior. The chamber can be used to study both operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
The skinner Box
about knowing the processes that happen in our minds. It studies cognition, which are the processes through which knowledge is acquired. Memory, perception and attention are examples of these processes.
Cognitive
how well a piece of research actually measures what it sets out to, or how well it reflects the reality it claims to represent.
Validity
a clear, curved disk that sits behind the iris and in front of the vitreous of the eye. It is the part of the eye that focuses light and images from the outer world, bending them onto the retina.
Lens
an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies.
Elizabeth Loftus
a study that mid-20th century psychologists interpret as evidence of classical conditioning in humans. The study is also claimed to be an example of stimulus generalization although reading the research report shows that fear did not generalize by color or tactile qualities.
Little/Fat Albert experiment.
It studies brain and genetics. It believes that most of our behaviour is inherited and can be explained using neurological terms.
Biological
means association; it is a measure of the extent to which two variables are related. One of the variables can be regarded as the predictor variable with the other one as the outcome variable.
Correlation
a fluid-filled, spiral-shaped cavity found in the inner ear that plays a vital role in the sense of hearing and participates in the process of auditory transduction. Sound waves are transduced into electrical impulses that the brain can interpret as individual sound frequencies.
Cochlea
a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. his theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.
Jean Piaget
a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by a Yale University psychologist who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.
milgram's experiments
all behaviours are learned through interactions with the environment.
Behavior
a type of study in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment.
Double blind
a region of the brain concerned with the production of speech, located in the cortex of the dominant frontal lobe.
Broca’s Area