Behavior & Conditioning
This perspective in psychology focuses only on observable behavior, not thoughts or feelings.
What is Behaviorism?
This homie created the Pyramid of Hierarchy of Needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This branch of psychology studies how people think about, influence, and relate to each other.
What is social psychology?
Thinking, memory, and problem solving are examples of these functions.
What are Cognitive Functions?
According to Maslow, these are the most basic human needs at the bottom of the pyramid.
What are physiological needs?
In Pavlov’s experiment, the bell before conditioning was considered this type of stimulus.
What is a Neutral Stimulus?
This psychologist believed therapy should focus on the unconscious mind and childhood.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Adjusting your behavior to match a group is called this.
What is conformity?
This is a mental framework or concept that helps us organize information.
What is Schema?
The top level of Maslow’s hierarchy is called this.
What is Self Actualization?
John B. Watson used this child in an experiment to show that fear could be learned.
Who is Little Albert?
This psychologist focused on client-centered therapy and unconditional positive regard.
Who is Carl Rogers?
This occurs when you follow a request from someone, even without authority.
What is Compliance?
Adding new info into an existing schema is called this.
What is assimilation?
Why must we meet lower needs before reaching self-actualization?
What is because basic survival and security must be satisfied before we can focus on personal growth and achieving our full potential?
This type of conditioning focuses on consequences (rewards and punishments) to shape behavior.
What is Operant Conditioning?
He studied children’s cognitive development and created four stages of development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This psychologist tested conformity by having participants match line lengths in a group setting.
Who is Solomon Asch?
Piaget’s stage where children begin using symbols and language but lack logical reasoning.
What is Preoperational Stage?
Freud’s therapy method, which explored dreams and slips of the tongue, was called this.
What is Psychoanalysis?
What is a negative reinforcement?
What is something unpleasant is taken away to increase behavior?
How does Wilhelm Wundt's idea of Structuralism differ from Max Wertheimer's Gestalt Psychology?
What is Structuralism broke consciousness into basic elements to understand the mind, while Gestalt Psychology focused on perceiving whole patterns and experiences rather than individual parts?
Attribution theory says behavior is explained in two ways. Name them.
What are situational (external) factors and dispositional (personal traits) factors?
Piaget would say a child who sees a whale for the first time and adjusts their “fish” schema to realize whales are mammals is demonstrating this cognitive process.
What is Accomodation?
How did Sigmund Freud and Carl Roger's therapy approaches differ from each other?
What is Freud focused on unconscious conflicts and childhood experiences (psychoanalysis), while Rogers emphasized client-centered therapy, the present, and unconditional positive regard?