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History ans Methods of Psychology
Stage of Development
Learning and Cognition
Individual Differences and Psychological Testing
Social Interaction
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What is psychology?
The social science that seeks to understand behavior and metal processes of individuals and to apply that understanding in the service of human welfare
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What is Developmental Psychology?
Study of changes that occur throughout life.
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Relatively permanent change in behavior or mental state based on experience.
What is learning?
100
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal
What is motivation?
100
Tendency to work less hard when sharing the work load with others.
What is social loafing?
200
Sigmund Freud.
Who focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation?
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Child who has grown up in severe isolation with virtually no human contact.
What is wild child?
200
Ivan Pavlov
Who studied digestive secretions?
200
Instinct Theory Drive-Reduction Theory Incentive Theory Cognitive Theory
What is Theories of Motivation?
200
What is Group Polarization?
Theory that group discussion reinforces the majority's point of view and shifts group member's opinions to a more extreme position.
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Structuralism.
Which theory focuses on the structure of the conscious experience?
300
Authoritarian Authoritative Permissive Uninvolved
Name four of parenting styles.
300
When a neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
300
What is personality?
Consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person
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Branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.
What is social Psychology?
400
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Behavioral Biological Cognitive Humanistic Sociocultural
Six Contemporary Psychological Perspectives
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Newborns are capable of certain automatic, coordinated movement patterns.
What is called reflected?
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Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Observational/Social learning
Types of Learning
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Focus on how our thoughts, perceptions, and feelings shape our personalities
What is cognitive focus on?
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What is Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
A situation in which a researcher’s expectations influence that person’s own behavior, and thereby influence the participant’s behavior.
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The founder of scientific psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
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1. Trust vs. Mistrust 2. Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt 3. Initiative vs. Guilt 4. Industry vs. Inferiority 5. Identity vs. Identity Confusion 6. Intimacy vs. Isolation 7. Generativity vs. Stagnation 8. Integrity vs. Despair
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
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Neutral stimulus (NS) Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) Unconditioned response (UCR) Conditioned stimulus (CS) Conditioned response (CR)
Classical Conditioning
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Rationalization Repression Denial Projection Reaction formation Regression Displacement Sublimation
Five main mechanisms of Psychoanalytic
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Behavior or actions, usually negative, towards an individual or group of people.
What is Discrimination?