4842724381 | John B Watson achievement | Prove fear can be conditioned and spread to other stimulus with white rabbit experiment. | 0 | |
4842727733 | John B watson | Behaviorist,speared headed the behaviorist movement, was influenced by Pavlov's work,wanted to focus back to scientific inquiry and believed only way to do so was to focus on observable behavior and ignore consciousness.(early works examined phobias) | 1 | |
4842728829 | Wilheim wundt | Structuralist, Attempted to apply scientific principles to study the human mind, believed the state of being could be broken down into thoughts | 2 | |
4843810762 | Edward Tichener | Structuralist, applied objective introspection to emotional and physical sensations, student of wundt believed every experience could be broken down into individual emotions and sensations. | 3 | |
4843824931 | Objective introspection | the process of objectively examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities. | 4 | |
4842729769 | James wiliam | Teacher at Harvard,Functionalist,Influenced by Darwin's ideas about natural selection and focused on how the mind allows people to function in the real world, influenced development of evolutionary psychology. | 5 | |
4843860804 | Influenced by Darwin | James William | 6 | |
4843872227 | Max Wertheimer | Did not believe that psychological events could be broken down into smaller elements,could only be be understood as a whole(entire event) influenced field of cognitive psychology and a form of psychological therapy, Gestalts therapy. | 7 | |
4843875578 | Found gestalt psychology and Gestalt theraphy | Max Wertheimer | 8 | |
4843863838 | Applied Introspection to Physical and Emotional Sensations. | Edward Tichener | 9 | |
4842729770 | Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalysis, stressed importance of early life experiences, the role of unconscious, and development through stages. | 10 | |
4842731080 | Pavlo | Behaviourist | 11 | |
4842740164 | Biological prepareness | Fear of heights, dangerous animals | 12 | |
4842742167 | Visual cliff | Human have biological traits from birth example depth perception. | 13 | |
4843673134 | Functionalism | Identified by what they do, not what they are made of.Created by James William | 14 | |
4843676429 | Psychoanalysis | Personality shaped by subconscious, which contains repressed memories from childhood. | 15 | |
4843681701 | Structuralism | Consciousness can be broken down into structures. Created By Edward tichener | 16 | |
4843734723 | Goals of Psychology | To uncover mysteries of human and animal behavior | 17 | |
4843755034 | Behavior | Outward or overt actions and reactions such as talking, facial, expressions, and movement. | 18 | |
4843765604 | Mental Process | Internal, covert activities of our minds, such as thinking, feeling and remembering. | 19 | |
4843775983 | Description | Observing a behavior and noting everything about it. | 20 | |
4843780522 | Explanation | Why is it happening? Important step, Process of forming theories of behavior. | 21 | |
4843781593 | Predict | Determining what will happen in the future? | 22 | |
4843781594 | Control | The modification of human behavior. | 23 | |
4843887877 | Behaviorism | Observable behavior, ignored consciouness, Created by john b watson | 24 | |
4843887941 | Associated with John B Watson. | Behaviorism | 25 | |
4843932149 | Margaret. F Washburn | Wundt's student who wrote "The animal mind 1908" | 26 | |
4843940785 | Little albert | Conditioned by John B Watson to fear a white rat, eventually grew to fear white rabbits,coats. | 27 | |
4843947091 | Mary Whiton Calkins | James William's student who completed every course for P.H.D, But was denied because she is a woman -_-. | 28 | |
4843953614 | Francis Cecil Sumner | First African American to earn PHD in psychology, worked with human memory and self-psychology.Father of African American psychology. | 29 | |
4843961608 | Mary Cover Jones | Copied John B Watson's experiment with little Albert by wanted to cancel out the phobia that was induced by giving little peter food while trying to condition the child to fear a white rat.Pleasure outweighed the potential fear of the rat. | 30 | |
4846559936 | What was lobotomy used or? | Help people with ADHD, depression and psychiatric problems. | 31 | |
4858039686 | Naturalistic observations | observing behavior in a natural environment without control or manipulation of the environment | 32 | |
4858045830 | Ethics in Psychology | rules of conduct recognized as appropriate to psychology and way of life to protect the wellbeing of participants in psychological research. | 33 | |
4858058834 | Evolutionary psychology | the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection | 34 | |
4858060857 | Psycho dynamic psychology (freuds theory) | a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence and behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders | 35 | |
4858062786 | Behavioral psychology | the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning | 36 | |
4858064110 | Cognitive psychology | the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 37 | |
4858066161 | Social Perspective | the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking | 38 | |
4858480860 | Cultural Psychology | Study of culture norms, values, and expectations. | 39 | |
4858492838 | Cognitive Neuroscience | Study of the physical workings, of the brain and nervous system. | 40 | |
4858469463 | Social Psychology | Study of groups, social roles, and rules of social actions. | 41 | |
4858119018 | Operant Conditioning (Skinner) | Theory created by B.F skinner to explain how voluntary behavior was learned. | 42 | |
4858119019 | Positive and Negative Reinforcement (Skinner) | Behavioral responses that are followed by pleasurable behavior was learned. | 43 | |
4858124357 | Self Actualization (Humanistic Perspective) | People's ability to direct their own lives, free will, and self-actualization, reaction of behaviorism and psychoanalysis | 44 | |
4858133766 | B.F Skinner | created Behavioral perspective in which operant conditioning and reinforcement affect behavior. | 45 | |
4858179879 | Gestalt | Focus on perception and patterns of a whole figure.(cognitive perspective) | 46 | |
4858198312 | Founded Human Perspective | Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers | 47 | |
4858510309 | Biological Perspective | Human and animal behavior is seen as a direct result of events in the body, such as hormones, heredity, Brain chemicals, tumors. | 48 | |
4858522348 | Biopsychology | study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes, studies sleep, aggression, learning, memory and sexual behavior. | 49 | |
4858529875 | Nueroscience | study of the physical structure, function, and development of the nervous system. | 50 | |
4858576731 | Biopsychosocial | theory by George L. Engel, a combination of biology, psychology, and social interactions to explain medically and psychologically. | 51 | |
4858576732 | Evolutionary Perspective | Focused on the biological basis for universal mental characteristics all humans share. Like why we are attracted to certain people and how it influences mate choices or why humans hate bitter food because early humans knew bitter foods were usually poisonous. | 52 | |
4858592393 | George Engel expression of Biopsychoscial | How genetics, behaviors, and environmental aspects interact to explain an individual. Social stress, interaction affect body and mind. | 53 | |
4858642648 | Bystander effect | The result of diffusion of responsibility. | 54 | |
4873126697 | Psychologist | an expert or specialist in psychology. | 55 | |
4873127597 | Psychiatrists | Able to write a prescription and able to diagnosis and treat psychological disorders. | 56 | |
4873128767 | Psychiatric Social Workers | Trained in the area of Social work, focus on social conditions that can have an impact on mental disorders like poverty, stress, and drug abuse. | 57 | |
4873136638 | Basic Vs Applied research | For psychologist who do research,basic research stress in research for gaining scientific knowledge, Applied for answering real world problems. | 58 | |
4875032123 | Naturalistic Observation | Observing people/ animals in a natural setting. | 59 | |
4875032124 | Observer Bias | A Person making observation allowing their predisposed opinions and expectations affect their results. | 60 | |
4875032877 | Laboratory Observations | Observing people/ animals in a controlled setting, people act differently in control settings. | 61 | |
4875045431 | What are Descriptive Methods | Case Studies and Surveys | 62 | |
4875045432 | Case Studies | One individual is studied in great detail and observers try to learn everything about that individual. Tremendous amount of detail, Cannot be applied to others. | 63 | |
4875047053 | Surveys | Ask questions about a topic and researchers are studying via telephone, internet or questionnaire. | 64 | |
4875048379 | Correlational Coefficient | Represented by a small r, it shows the direction of relationship and strength with numeral information on a scatter plot. | 65 | |
4875048380 | Positive Correlation | Represented by +1, means both variables are directly linked | 66 | |
4875049360 | Negative Correlation | Represented by -1, means both variable are inversely linked. | 67 | |
4929500174 | Descriptive Statistics | A way of organizing numbers and summarizing them so that they can be understood. | 68 | |
4929502446 | Sample | A group of people selected, usually randomly, from a larger population of people | 69 | |
4929504663 | Central tendency | used to summarize the data and give you one score that seems typical of your sample. | 70 | |
4929509981 | Measures of variability | Used to indicate how spread out data are | 71 | |
4929512643 | Frequency Distribution | A table or graph that shows how often different numbers appear in a particular set of scores. | 72 | |
4929517073 | Histograms | Bar graph, provide a visual way to look at data from frequency distributions. | 73 | |
4929518967 | Polygon | Line graph, represent the data in a frequency distribution in much the same way as a bar graph. | 74 | |
4929522344 | Normal Curve | Specific shape, bell curve, model for many things measured, such as inteligence, height or weight | 75 | |
4929527301 | Skew | Concentration of data on a specific location | 76 | |
4929527302 | Positive Skew | Majority of data located on the left side | ![]() | 77 |
4929527328 | Negative Skew | Majority of data located on the right side | ![]() | 78 |
4929536327 | Bimodal | Two equal high points | ![]() | 79 |
4929542307 | Z score | indicates how many standard deviations you are away from the average | 80 | |
4929544718 | Standard Deviation | A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score. | 81 | |
4929547097 | P value | determines if data is due to luck probability less than 50% to be credible | 82 | |
4929551071 | T test | Determines if to means are different. | 83 | |
4929552836 | Inferential Statistics | Allow's researchers to draw conclusions, or make interference about results of research. | 84 |
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