Perspectives
This perspective focuses on intrinsic drive and motives as the foundation of behaviour. For example, the need for love and food cannot be logically explained and lie buried in an individual’s subconscious.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
This man focused on consequences that follow a response or behaviour that we make and whether the consequences make a behaviour more or less likely to occur.
Who is B. F. Skinner (Operant Conditioning)
This term means there is a change in the environment. This could be a sound, a smell or a visual trigger such as food.
What is a stimulus?
B. F. Skinner falls into this social perspective...
What is social learning theory?
Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of psychology because he this this.
What is establish the first psychological laboratory?
In this perspective, the psychologists want to break down the consciousness into thoughts, experiences, emotions, and other basic elements. One practice included Objective Introspection.
What is Structuralism?
Who is the man who argued that it is biological processes that underlie behaviours and believe behaviour is mostly due to biological factors?
Who is Thomas Bouchard (Ethological Theory)
The dog salivates. Ivan Pavlov called this?
What is unconditioned stimulus?
A child does a task successfully. The teacher gives the child a sticker. This is called...
What is Positive Reinforcement?
Psychologists try to do these four things to guide their research practice...
Describe, explain, predict, and control
One element of this perspective believes that the mind is structured to think in a stream of consciousness.
What is structuralism?
This man believed that behaviour is controlled by environmental influences such as social learning (modeling) and imitation.
Who is Urie Bronfenbrenner? (Social Learning Theory)
The sound of the tuning fork in Pavlov's study is called this.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
A child is hitting and kicking. This gets his peers' attention which the child likes. The attention is called...
Negative Reinforcement.
When conducting research and making observations. The researcher must work hard to do this...
What is remain unbiased?
This perspective believes behaviour can be understood in terms of the relationship between the stimulus and a response, or behavioral reaction to the stimulus.
What is behavioral Theory?
This man developed stages of development of intelligence in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The salivation in the dog's mouth AFTER hearing the tuning fork is called this.
Conditioned Response
The system that has the most immediate influence on an individual's behaviours and includes family, classmates, friends is called this...
What is the Microsystem?
When conducting research such as a survey or proving if something is nature or nurture, the researcher must first do this...
Make a hypothesis.
This perspective focuses on mental processes, such as memory, thought, and reasoning. They want to understand people, they find out what they think.
What is Cognitive Theory?
This man believed that psychologists should psychoanalyize subjects and invented the terms Id, Ego, and Superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
When a dog salivates to the sound of a tuning fork and any other similar sound, Pavlov called this...
What is generalized stimuli?
The system of support that influences behaviour and includes school, media, community groups, and health agencies is called this...
What is the Exosystem?
One concern that psychologists had with Thomas J. Bouchard's study was the sample size. The sample size consisted of these two issues.
What are the same socio-economic class and same ethnicity?