Unit 1: Mind and Behavior
This early psychologist performed a famous set of experiments which demonstrated classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
These two concepts are the basic building blocks of consciousness.
What is sensation and perception?
This basic scientific concept refers the idea that an object changing shape does not mean the object has changed in terms of mass, volume, etc...
What is conservation?
Sigmund Freud was a major proponent of this outdated but important method of treatment for mental health.
What is psychoanalysis?
What are abnormal behaviors?
A type of learning where a neutral stimulus (like the ringing of a bell) becomes associated with a naturally occurring stimulus (food), eventually producing a similar response
What is Classical Conditioning?
These are the 3 types of consciousness.
What are Waking, Sleeping, and Altered?
The phase in an individual's life where they go through major physical and hormonal changes.
What is adolescence?
This approach to psychology developed from earlier approaches to psychology promoted by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
What is psychodynamics?
Individuals tend to make this type of attribution when talking about themselves.
What is external/situational attribution?
A famous behavioral psychologist created this experimental environment which utilized operant conditioning to train rodents.
What is a Skinner Box?
These noodle like structures in the body control and connect organs to the central nervous system.
What is the Peripheral Nervous system?
During this stage of development, children learn that objects continue to exist even when they are not able to see them.
What is the Preoperational stage?
Erik Erikson proposed this model for emotional development which argues children develop emotional maturity as experiences challenges during life.
What is Psychosocial development?
This approach to psychology is often nicknamed "holocaust psychology" due to being developed by researchers like Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo who wanted to understand why atrocities were committed.
What is social/sociocultural psychology?
This organization created 5 general principles to guide psychology researchers after the 1978 Belmont Report.
Who is the American Psychological Association?
This small area of the brain which is responsible for speech production is named after the man who first found a laceration there during an autopsy.
What is Broca's area?
Process by which information is assimilated into a pre-existing schema, which allows it to be stored long-term.
What is Encoding?
This famous humanistic model of personality/emotional development was adapted from observations of the Blackfoot Tribe's teachings.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
What are Eustress and Distress?
These two early approaches to psychology associated with Wilhelm Wundt and William James represented two different sides of the nature vs. nurture debate.
What are Structuralism and Functionalism?
Sigmund Freud argued that dreams were examples of this concept.
What is wish fulfillment?
Researchers such as Noam Chomsky argued that this universal ability is what separates humans from animals.
What is language acquisition?
Times readers made this mistake when reading about the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 and attributing it to the bystander effect.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This form of treatment for mental health issues was prevalent in the United States for over a century despite being based in unscientific practices and prone to systemic abuse of patients.
What is institutionalization?