Theories & Definitions
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum?
This individual created a widely used depression assessment and used cognitive therapy to treat his patients.
Who is Aaron Beck?
This phenomenon occurs during both REM and non-REM sleep.
What is dreaming?
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal characteristics or external situations
What is attribution theory?
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zambardo?
Retrograde _____ is a condition that applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia?
This psychologist pioneered "client/person centered therapy."
Who is Carl Rogers?
Some expectant fathers experience back pain and food cravings as part of this phenomenon.
What is sympathetic pregnancy?
The theory that Albert Bandura proposed that stated that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning
What is Social Learning Theory?
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is Quasi Experimental?
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the Limbic System?
This individual had a famous father, and is sometimes referred to as the mother of child psychology.
Who is Anna Freud?
This phenomenon refers to a fear of phobias.
What is phobophobia?
Uses the interpretation of ink blots to assess personality
What is the Rorschach test?
In this experiment, individuals participated in a "vision test" to determine which line on a page was longer than the others. However, it was really meant to determine whether they would conform.
What is the Asch Conformity Study?
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language
What is Broca's aphasia?
This individual taught pigeons to peck a disk in order to receive a reward.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Doing this while hurt has been shown to reduce feelings of pain.
This word comes from two Greek words meaning "breath, spirit, soul" and "study of."
What is psychology?
This type of research attempts to determine why certain phenomena work in the way they do.
What is explanatory research?
What is three pounds?
This individual, with his collaborator Theodore Simon, created the first widely used intelligence test.
Who is Alfred Binet?
This phenomenon refers to a cognitive bias towards attractive people.
What is the halo effect?