This type of development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
What is cognitive development?
100
This is the term for person who performs a behavior and serves as an example in observational learning.
What is model?
100
This is the term used to describe the tendency to give less effort when part of a group.
What is social loafing?
100
The term for the ability to perceive depth.
What is depth perception?
100
He brought Wundt's system of psychology to the US, yet drastically changed it and called it structuralism.
Who is E.B. Titchener?
200
The term for a mental concept that is used to help categorize and interpret information.
What is schema?
200
This term describe the type of behavior that can be observed by an individual other than the one performing it.
What is overt behavior?
200
This term describes the process of changing someones attitude after some form of interaction.
What is persuasion?
200
This term describes the ability to perceive the body's movements through space.
What is kinesthsia (or kinesthetics)?
200
He is credited as the first psychologist to experimentally investigate learning and memory by creating nonsense syllables.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
300
He identified that 4 stages of cognitive development in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
300
This conditioning procedure uses an unconditioned stimulus that an organism wishes to avoid to elicit a response.
What is aversive conditioning?
300
The theory that frustration triggers the readiness to aggress.
What is the frustration-aggression theory?
300
This describes the ability to not detect stimuli that remain relatively constant over prolonged periods of time.
What is sensory adaptation?
300
Descartes helped the development of modern psychology by attempting to solve this problem, which argues the differences between mental qualities and physical qualities.
What is the mind-body problem?
400
This type of attachment is displayed by a child who has clingy behaviors, yet rejects their parents during interactions.
What is resistant attachment?
400
This type of behavioral therapy involves pairing relaxation with gradually increasing levels of fear inducing stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
400
This term describe the expectation of receiving benefits when we contribute to a relationship.
What is reciprocity?
400
The process of interpreting sensations from available knowledge, experiences, and thoughts.
What is top-down processing?
400
This term is used to describe Fechner's research on the relationship between mental and physical processes; it was also the inspiration for Wundt's experimental psychology lab.
What is psychophysics?
500
She identified the different parent-child attachment styles.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
500
This law, proposed by Thorndike, states that behaviors which are followed by a satisfying consequence are more likely to be repeated; where as behaviors followed by an unpleasent consequence are less likely to be repeated.
What is the law of effect?
500
This effect arose from a conformity experiment where participants were asked to report which line, out of three, was the same length as line x.
What is the Asch effect?
500
This term describes the minimum amount of energy from a stimulus that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
500
He is one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, who's book, Gestalt Psychology, became the standard works for Gestalt psychology.