9857658640 | The Beginning | Ancient Greece believe knowledge was innate | | 0 |
9857658641 | Aristotle | Used observation to determine knowledge learned through experience | | 1 |
9857658642 | Descartes | Early ideas on the nervous system; animal spirits | | 2 |
9857658643 | John Lock | -Blank slate
-Empiricism (observe + experiment) | | 3 |
9857658644 | Empiricism | Knowledge originates from experience, thus science should rely on observation + experimentation | | 4 |
9857658645 | Edward Titchener | Structuralism
(What does the mind do?) | | 5 |
9857658646 | Structuralism | Used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mand | | 6 |
9857658647 | Functionalism | Looked at how the brain works in turn figure out how it helped organisms survive | | 7 |
9857658648 | Biological / Neuroscience | How biological factors influence behavior + mental processes (Neurotransmitters, brain parts)
Sub-Perspective:
-Behavior Genetics
-Evolutionary | | 8 |
9857658649 | Behavior Genetics | How behaviors are influenced by genetic makeup | | 9 |
9857658650 | Evolutionary | How has evolution/natural selection shaped modern behavior | | 10 |
9857658651 | Psychoanalytic | How unconscious affects our conscious behaviors
(Early Child, Freudian) | | 11 |
9857658652 | Learning / Behavioral | How past experiences + consequences shape future behavior
(Reinforcement & Punishment) | | 12 |
9857658653 | Cognitive / Thinking | How we encode, process, store, and retrieve info
(Dreams, thoughts, problem solving, etc.) | | 13 |
9857658654 | Humanistic | How people exercise free will, personal choice, and strive to reach their full potential
(Warm + fuzzy, good in people, Maslow, Jung) | | 14 |
9857658655 | Social-Cultural | How society + culture shape behavior and mental processes | | 15 |
9857658656 | BioPyschoSocial | Looking at all biological, environmental, cognitive factors | | 16 |
9857658657 | Needs: | Condition in which we require something we lack
Biological:
-Water, food, etc
Psychological:
-Achievement, self esteem | | 17 |
9857658658 | Drives | Forces that motivate an organism to take action
(longer deprivation = stronger drive) | | 18 |
9857658659 | Instinct Theory | Instincts drive behavior, however instincts aren't found throughout human race which discounts this theory | | 19 |
9857658660 | Instinct | Behavior patterns that are genetically transferred from generations | | 20 |
9857658661 | Drive Reduction Theory | Behavior motivated by the need to reduce unwanted tension
-Doesn't cover all behavior (Eat when not hungry) | | 21 |
9857658662 | Incentive Theory | Non-biological factors
-Incentives | | 22 |
9857658663 | Incentives | A positive / negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior (smell, judgement) | | 23 |
9857658664 | Homostasis | Body tries to maintain state of equilibrium; balance | | 24 |
9857658665 | Achievement Motivation | People motivated by conscious desire for personal growth
(Give up comfort to fulfill, challenging themselves) | | 25 |
9857658666 | Sociocultural Theory | Cultural experiences / factors influence behaviours
(play sports) | | 26 |
9857658667 | Arousal Theory | Seek optimum level of arousal
(too much stimulus = decrease it, not enough = increase) | | 27 |
9857658668 | Yerkes Dodson | High arousal = easy tasks
Low arousal = hard tasks | | 28 |
9857658669 | Lateral Hypothalumus | Start eating center | | 29 |
9857658670 | Ventro Medial Hypothalamus | Stop eating center | | 30 |
9857658671 | Setpoint | Weight thermostat | | 31 |
9857658672 | Emotion | Response of a whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behavior, conscious experience | | 32 |
9857658673 | James-Lange | Physiological Arousal -> Emotion
-No thinking | | 33 |
9857658674 | Cannon-Bard | Physiological arousal seperate from emotion | | 34 |
9857658675 | Singer Schacter to Factor | Physiological arousal -> think -> emotion | | 35 |
9857658676 | Subjective Well-Being | Self reported happiness | | 36 |
9857658677 | Relative Deprivation | Measure happiness by comparing your circumstance to others | | 37 |
9857658678 | Adaptation Level Phenomenon | After event increases happiness, that becomes the baseline, thus you need another event to increase happiness | | 38 |
9857658679 | General Adaptation Syndrome | Alarm: Outpouring of hormones / neurotransmitters
Resistance: elevated level of arousal
Exhaustion: depletion of resources
(Hans Seyle) | | 39 |
9857658680 | Neuron | The basic cell make up of the nervous system | | 40 |
9857658681 | Dendrite | Receives messages from neurons | | 41 |
9857658682 | Cell body | Maintains life of cell | | 42 |
9857658683 | Axon | Carries neural messages to other cells | | 43 |
9857658684 | Myelin Sheath | Protects axon and speeds up neural impulse | | 44 |
9857658685 | Depolarization | Positives going in causing action potential | | 45 |
9857658686 | Action Potential | Release of neural impulses | | 46 |
9857658687 | All-or-None | Firing at full strength or not at all | | 47 |
9857658688 | Axon Terminal | Branches at end of axon | | 48 |
9857658689 | Neurotransmitters | Chemicals that transmit a message | | 49 |
9857658690 | Receptor Site | Holes shaped to fit certain neurotransmitters | | 50 |
9857658691 | Acetylcholine | Learning and activated muscles | | 51 |
9857658692 | Serotonin | Contributes to mood | | 52 |
9857658693 | Dopamine | Feeling of pleasure, movement, and addiction | | 53 |
9857658694 | Endorphins | Reducing pain and euphoria | | 54 |
9857658695 | Noradrenaline | Concentration | | 55 |
9857658696 | GABA | Calming | | 56 |
9857658697 | Sensory Neurons | Takes info from senses to brain | | 57 |
9857658698 | Interneurons | Make up brain | | 58 |
9857658699 | Efferent Neurons | Carries info from brain to rest of body | | 59 |
9857658700 | Peripheral Nervous System | Consists of all nerves | | 60 |
9857658701 | Central Nervous System | Brain and Spinal Chord | | 61 |
9857658702 | Refractory Period: | Recharging period | | 62 |
9857658703 | Reuptake | Reabsorbing leftover neurotransmitters | | 63 |
9857658704 | Synpase | Gap between neurotransmitters | | 64 |
9857658705 | Agonist | Mimic neurotransmitters by filling in receptor sites which block reuptake | | 65 |
9857658706 | Antagonist | Inhibitory drug that blocks receptor sites to reduce release of neurotransmitters | | 66 |
9857658707 | Somatic Nervous System | Voluntary movement | | 67 |
9857658708 | Autonomic Nervous System | Involuntary movement | | 68 |
9857658709 | Sympathetic | Fight or Flight
Ex. Heart rate, sweat, breathing | | 69 |
9857658710 | Parasympathetic | Calms | | 70 |
9857658711 | Endocrine System | Glands and hormones | | 71 |
9857658712 | Pituitary Gland | Releases growth hormone | | 72 |
9857658713 | Testes and Ovarics | Releases testosterone and estrogen | | 73 |
9857658714 | Thyroid Gland | Metabolism | | 74 |
9857658715 | Lesions | Destruction of brain tissue | | 75 |
9857658716 | EEG | Measures brain waves | | 76 |
9857658717 | CT Scane | Series of X-rays | | 77 |
9857658718 | PET Scan | Injects radioactive glucose | | 78 |
9857658719 | MRI | Very detailed pictures | | 79 |
9857658720 | FMRI | Detailed pictures and functions | | 80 |
9857658721 | Plasticity | Brain has ability to change in response to damage or changing environmental stimuli | | 81 |
9857658722 | Sensation | How our body receives and represents stimulus energies from our environment | | 82 |
9857658723 | Perception | Interpreting sensations | | 83 |
9857658724 | Bottom Up Processing | Processing info using sensory input | | 84 |
9857658725 | Top Down Processing | Processing info using experience and expectation | | 85 |
9857658726 | Transduction | Turning stimulus energies into neural impulses | | 86 |
9857658727 | Absolute Threshold | Minimum amount of sensory stimuli you can detect 50% of the time | | 87 |
9857658728 | Signal Detection Theory | We have no absolute threshold because detection is affected by expectation and motivation | | 88 |
9857658729 | Difference Threshold | Minimum amount of difference between two stimuli you can detect 50% of the time | | 89 |
9857658730 | Weber's Law | Difference has to vary by a constant percentage not amount | | 90 |
9857658731 | Sensory Adaption | Diminishing sensitivity to constant stimuli | | 91 |
9857658732 | Cornea | Protects eye | | 92 |
9857658733 | Lens | Changes shape to focus light on retina | | 93 |
9857658734 | Cones | Color | | 94 |
9857658735 | Rods | Dim light | | 95 |
9857658736 | Fovea | Cluster of cones | | 96 |
9857658737 | Retina | Transduct lightwaves to optic nerve | | 97 |
9857658738 | Feature Detection | Nerve cells in visual cortex help you detect specific features (angle, movement, edges) | | 98 |
9857658739 | Parallel Processing | Processing aspects of stimulus separately at the same time | | 99 |
9857658740 | Trichromatic Theory | Retina has 3 color receptors | | 100 |
9857658741 | Opponent Process Theory | Combination color receptors | | 101 |
9857658742 | Acoustical Transduction | Sounds to impulses using hair cells | | 102 |
9857658743 | Frequency | Determined by wavelengths | | 103 |
9857658744 | Intensity | Amount of energy in wave | | 104 |
9857658745 | Outer Ear | Collects sound (pinna) | | 105 |
9857658746 | Middle Ear | Concentrates the vibrations of eardrum on cochlea oval window | | 106 |
9857658747 | Cochlea | Transforms sound vibrations to auditory signals | | 107 |
9857658748 | Selective Attention | Ability to focus our conscious awareness on a particular stimulus | | 108 |
9857658749 | Cocktail Party Effect | Ability to focus on one voice among many | | 109 |
9857658750 | Inattentional Blindness | Failing to see something in your visual field wjen attention averted | | 110 |
9857658751 | Change Blindness | Failing to recognize changes in our visual field | | 111 |
9857658752 | Perceptual Set | A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another | | 112 |
9857658753 | Context Effects | Immediate surroundings affects perceptions | | 113 |
9857658754 | Stroboscope Movement | The illusion of movement produced by showing rapid progression of images that aren't moving | | 114 |
9857658755 | Phi Phenomenom | Illusion of movement created by two adjacent lights blinking o/off in quick succession | | 115 |
9857658756 | Monocular Cues | Depth cues that need only one eye to be percieved | | 116 |
9857658757 | Binocular Cues | Two eyes to be percieved | | 117 |
9857658758 | NREM 1 | Light sleep with hallucinations | | 118 |
9857658759 | NREM 2 | Sleep Spindals | | 119 |
9857658760 | NREM 3 | Deep sleep | | 120 |
9857658761 | REM | Vivid dreams | | 121 |
9857658762 | Narcolepsy | Inability to stay awake | | 122 |
9857658763 | Psychoanalytic Theory | Dreams represent unconscious desires, thoughts, and motives | | 123 |
9857658764 | Manifest Content | Whats happening | | 124 |
9857658765 | Latent Content | Meaning | | 125 |
9857658766 | Activation Synthesis | Dreams are subjective interpretation of brain signals | | 126 |
9857658767 | Information Processing Theory | Dreams are a byproduct of info collect from day | | 127 |
9857658768 | Human Factor Psychology | Change or improve products or experiences using human sensation/perception | | 128 |
9857658769 | Social Role Theory | People are acting how they think hypnotized people act | | 129 |
9857658770 | Divided Consciousness Theory | Separate conscious awareness | | 130 |
9857658771 | Depressants | Reduce brain stimulation | | 131 |
9857658772 | Stimulant | Increases brain sitmulation | | 132 |
9857658773 | Hallucinagen | Drug causing hallucinations | | 133 |
9857658774 | Psychological Disorder | Persistently harmful thoughts, feelings, or actions
(Deviance, distressing, dysfunctional) | | 134 |
9857658775 | Medical Model | Mental disorders are physical illnesses that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured | | 135 |
9857658776 | Bio Psycho Social Approach | Mental illness has biological, psychological, and social components | | 136 |
9857658777 | DSM-5 | Book used to classify disorders
-standardized diagnosis
-insurance + court purposes | | 137 |
9857658778 | David Rusenhan | He faked schizophrenia until admitted in hospital then acted completely normal | | 138 |
9857658779 | Anxiety | General state of dread or uneasiness that occurs in response to vague or imagined danger | | 139 |
9857658780 | Anxiety Disorders | -Phobic Disorder
-Panic Disorder
-General Anxiety | | 140 |
9857658781 | Phobia | Persistent excessive/ irrational fear of a particular object or situation | | 141 |
9857658782 | Panic Disorder | Reoccurring panic attacks | | 142 |
9857658783 | Panic Attack | Short lived period of intense fear or discomfort characterized by shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, etc | | 143 |
9857658784 | Agoraphobia | Fear of being in places that are difficult to escape | | 144 |
9857658785 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Excessive worry about life circumstances | | 145 |
9857658786 | PTSD | Persistent anxiety caused by a traumatic event | | 146 |
9857658787 | OCD | Obsession: unwanted thoughts, ideas, or mental images that occur over and over again
Compulsion: repetitive ritual behavior | | 147 |
9857658788 | Somatization | The expression of distress through physical symptoms | | 148 |
9857658789 | Conversion Disorder | Change or loss of physical functioning of a major part of the body with no medical explanation | | 149 |
9857658790 | Illness Anxiety Disorder | Unrealistic preoccupation with fear that he/she had a serious disease | | 150 |
9857658791 | Depressive Disorders | Mods changed that seem inappropriate for certain situations | | 151 |
9857658792 | Major Depression | Consuming feelings of worthlessness + guilt which prevents people from enjoying things they once loved | | 152 |
9857658793 | Persistent Depressive Disorder | Still functioning but at low levels; less severe, more long term | | 153 |
9857658794 | Depression Causes | Lack of serotonin or nonadrenaline | | 154 |
9857658795 | Bipolar Disorder | Characterized by severe highs and lows
-Mania: extreme excitement, hyperactivity, chaotic behavior
-Depressive | | 155 |
9857658796 | Dissociation | Separate of certain personality traits or mental processes from conscious thought | | 156 |
9857658797 | Dissociative Amnesia | Sudden loss of memory following a traumatic event (no physical damage) | | 157 |
9857658798 | Dissociative Fugue | Forgetting past life and starting new one | | 158 |
9857658799 | Dissociative ldentity Disorder | Multiple personalities within 1 person | | 159 |
9857658800 | Depersonalization Disorder | Feeling of detachment from ones mental process or body (watching yourself) | | 160 |
9857658801 | Schizophrenia | Loss of contact with reality | | 161 |
9857658802 | Positive Symptoms | Thoughts and behaviors that are presents but shouldn't be (hallucinations, voices) | | 162 |
9857658803 | Negative Symptoms | Thoughts and behaviors that should be there but aren't (Lack of emotion, social withdrawal) | | 163 |
9857658804 | Hallucinations | Sensory experience without sensory input | | 164 |
9857658805 | Delusional | Inappropiate often grandiose beliefs | | 165 |
9857658806 | Flat Effect | Lacking emotions, facials expressions, monotone voice | | 166 |
9857658807 | Catatonia | Disturbance of movement | | 167 |
9857658808 | Schizophrenia Causes | Extra dopamine receptors | | 168 |
9857658809 | Antisocial Personality Disorder | Long term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others | | 169 |
9857658810 | Avoidant Personaliry Disorder | Lifelong of feeling very shy, inadequate, and sensitive to rejection | | 170 |
9857658811 | Borderline Personality Disorder | Unstable/turbulent emotions that often result in impulsice actions or chaotic relationships | | 171 |
9857658812 | Dependent Personality Disorder | Depending too much on others in order to meet physical + emotional needs | | 172 |
9857658813 | Histrionic Personality Disorder | Acting in very emotional/ dramatic ways that draw attention to themselves | | 173 |
9857658814 | Narcisstic Personality Disorder | Excessive sense of self importance, extreme preoccupation with themselves, and lack of empathy for others | | 174 |
9857658815 | Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder | Preoccupied with rules, orderliness, and control | | 175 |
9857658816 | Paranoid Personality Disorder | Long Term pattern of distrust and suspicion of others | | 176 |
9857658817 | Schizoid Personality Disorder | Lifelong pattern of indifference to others and social isolation | | 177 |
9857658818 | Pyschotherapy | Talking cures issues | | 178 |
9857658819 | Pyschoanalysis | -Fix unconscious issues
-Talk about whatever come to mind
-Resistance
-Transference
-Freud | | 179 |
9857658820 | Resistance | Mentioning a topic then skipping over it or moving on | | 180 |
9857658821 | Transference | Transferring feelings onto someone else | | 181 |
9857658822 | Humanistic | -Carl Rogers
-Client-Centered Therapy
-Active Listening | | 182 |
9857658823 | Active Listening | Clarifying and restating | | 183 |
9857658824 | Behavioral Therapy | Using conditioning techniques to change behavior
- Skinner + Pavlov | | 184 |
9857658825 | Classical Conditioning | -Involuntary
-Counterconditioning | | 185 |
9857658826 | Counterconditioning | Pairing positive stimulus with anxiety provoking stimulus
Ex. Birds + Chocolate | | 186 |
9857658827 | Exposure Therapies | Treats anxiety disorders, phobias, PTSD
-Flooding
-Systematic Desensitization
-Virtual Reality
-Aversion Therapy | | 187 |
9857658828 | Flooding | Exposed to something all at once
Ex. Thrown into pit of snakes | | 188 |
9857658829 | Systematic Desensitization | Slowly exposing more and more of something
Ex. Fingernails, feather | | 189 |
9857658830 | Aversion Therapy | Pair unwanted behavior with unwanted stimulus
Ex. Nail biting | | 190 |
9857658831 | Token Economy | Rewarding positive behaviors with tokens which can be turned in for real rewards
Ex. Bobcash | | 191 |
9857658832 | Cognitive Therapy | Challenge illogical / irrational thoughts in a effort to change them
Ex. "That's stupid" | | 192 |
9857658833 | Albert Ellis | Created RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) | | 193 |
9857658834 | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Changes thinking and behavior | | 194 |
9857658835 | Meta-analysis | Take various studies on the same topic and combine results | | 195 |
9857658836 | Biomedical Therapy | Direct effect on nervous system | | 196 |
9857658837 | Psychopharmacology | Using drugs | | 197 |
9857658838 | Anti-Depressants | -For depression
-SSRI (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) | | 198 |
9857658839 | Anti-Anxiety | Depress central nervous system
Ex. Xanax | | 199 |
9857658840 | Anti-Pyschotics | Block dopamine receptors
-For schizophrenia
-Side effect: tardive dykinsia (facial twitching)
Ex. Thorazine | | 200 |
9857658841 | Mood stabilizers | For bipolar
Ex. Lithium | | 201 |
9857658842 | Psycho Surgery | Surgery on nervous system
Ex. Lobotomy | | 202 |
9857658843 | Lobotomy | Destruction of front lobe by stabbing needle through eye
-Side Effect: Flat effect | | 203 |
9857658844 | ECT | - Sending electric shock through brain to induce seizures
-(Electroconvulsive Therapy)
-For Catatonia and major depression | | 204 |
9857658845 | Cognition | All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | | 205 |
9857658846 | Atkinson-Shiffrin Model | Sensory Memory
Short Term Memory
Long Term Memory | | 206 |
9857658847 | Sensory Memory | Fleeting memories using senses
-iconic (visual)
-acoustic (auditory) | | 207 |
9857658848 | Short Term Memory | -7 +/- 2 items
-30 sec - 1 min | | 208 |
9857658849 | Long Term Memory | -"unlimited"
-Long Term Potentiation: increased strength of synaptic connections | | 209 |
9857658850 | Episodic Memory | Memory of a specific events | | 210 |
9857658851 | Semantic/Generic Memory | General knowledge most people remember | | 211 |
9857658852 | Explicit Memory | -Both semantic + episodic memories
-Stored by Hippocampus
-Can say aloud | | 212 |
9857658853 | Implicit Memory | -Skills/procedures you learn (automatic)
-Stored in Cerebellum | | 213 |
9857658854 | Encoding | Getting info visually, acoustically, or semantic | | 214 |
9857658855 | Automatic Processing | Unconscious encoding of well learned info | | 215 |
9857658856 | Effortful Processing | Encoding that requires effort and attention | | 216 |
9857658857 | Herman Ebbinghaus | -Non Sense syllables
-Serial Position Effect: first + last
-Spacing Effect: rehearsal over time = longer retention | | 217 |
9857658858 | Maintenance Rehearsal | Repeating over and over | | 218 |
9857658859 | Elaborate Rehearsal | Using prior knowledge to connect to what you are trying to remember | | 219 |
9857658860 | Chunking | Organizing info into meaningful units | | 220 |
9857658861 | Mnemonic Device | Memory aid (PEMDAS, ROY G BIV) | | 221 |
9857658862 | Retrieval | Getting memory out | | 222 |
9857658863 | Context Dependent Memory | Memories more easily recalled n the context you encoded them | | 223 |
9857658864 | State Dependent Memory | Memories are more easily recalled when in the same state they were encoded | | 224 |
9857658865 | Forgetting | -Encoding failure
-Decay
-Interference
-Amnesia | | 225 |
9857658866 | Decay | If you don't use it, you lose it | | 226 |
9857658867 | Interference | Proactive: Old info blocks new info
Retroactive: New info blocks old info | | 227 |
9857658868 | Amnesia | Retrograde: forgetting past
Antrograde: Not forming new memories | | 228 |
9857658869 | Misinformation Effect | Incorporating false or misleading info into memory | | 229 |
9857658870 | Source Amnesia | Not knowing source of memory | | 230 |
9857658871 | Concepts | Mental groupings of objects, ideas, events, etc. | | 231 |
9857658872 | Prototype | Best example of concept | | 232 |
9857658873 | Algorithms | Stepy by step process that always get solution | | 233 |
9857658874 | Heuristic | Short Cut | | 234 |
9857658875 | Insight | "Aha" moment | | 235 |
9857658876 | Confirmation Bias | Searching for info to confirm what you already believe | | 236 |
9857658877 | Fixation | Inability to see problem from fresh perspective | | 237 |
9857658878 | Mental Set | Solving a problem a way it worked from the past | | 238 |
9857658879 | Functional Fixedness | Inability to see a object for anything than its intended use | | 239 |
9857658880 | Availability Heuristic | Making decisions based on info that is immediately available to consciousness
Ex. Immigation | | 240 |
9857658881 | Representativeness Heuristic | Judging likelihood of thing in terms of how well they seem to match prototype
Ex. Multiple choice tests | | 241 |
9857658882 | Framing Effect | Effect of words on our judgement | | 242 |
9857658883 | Belief Perserverance | Clinging to your beliefs even in the face of contrary evidence
Ex. Politics | | 243 |
9857658884 | Language | Our spoken, written, or gestured work is the way we communicate meaning to ourselves and others | | 244 |
9857658885 | Phonemes | Smallest distinct sound unit in a spoken language
Ex. Bat -> b-a-t | | 245 |
9857658886 | Morphemes | Smallest unit that carries a meaning (word)
Ex. Starring -> Star + ring | | 246 |
9857658887 | Grammar | System of rules of language | | 247 |
9857658888 | Semantics | Set of rules by which we derive meaning from words, sentences, morphemes
Ex. -ed = past | | 248 |
9857658889 | Syntax | Rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences
Ex. White house vs Casa blanca | | 249 |
9857658890 | Skinner Operant Learning | Learn language through reinforcement, imitation, observing, etc. | | 250 |
9857658891 | Chomsky Inborn Universal Grammar | Inborn mechanism to learn language | | 251 |
9857658892 | Linguistic Determinism | -Whorf
-Language determines the way we think
Ex. Knowing lots of angry words = Angrier | | 252 |
9857658893 | Intelligence | Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations | | 253 |
9857658894 | General Intelligence | Intelligence is tested and measured numerically | | 254 |
9857658895 | Primary Mental Abilities | 7 primary mental abilities that determine intelligence | | 255 |
9857658896 | Multiple Intelligence | 8 distinct intelligence within intellegence | | 256 |
9857658897 | Triarchic Theory of Intelligence | Intelligence is made up of analytical, creative, and practical factors | | 257 |
9857658898 | Louis L. Thurstone | Primary Mental Abilities | | 258 |
9857658899 | Howard Gardner | Multiple Intelligence | | 259 |
9857658900 | Robert Sternberg | Triarchic Theory of Intelligence | | 260 |
9857658901 | Charles Spearman | General Intelligence | | 261 |
9857658902 | Alfred Binet | -"Father of Intelligence"
-Created 1st test (to identify kids that need help) | | 262 |
9857658903 | Lewis Termann | -Intelligence Quotient
-Standford-Binet Test | | 263 |
9857658904 | Intelligence Quotient | IQ = mental age / chronological age x 100 | | 264 |
9857658905 | Aptitude Test | Predict ability to learn a new skill (ACT) | | 265 |
9857658906 | Achievement Test | Reflect what you've already learned | | 266 |
9857658907 | David Wechsler | -Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
-Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) | | 267 |
9857658908 | Standardization | Standardizing a test involves administering the test ti a representative sample of future test takers in order to establish a basis for meaningful comparison
Ex. College freshman set standards for AP test | | 268 |
9857658909 | Flynn Effect | Intelligence has increased by 27 points over time | | 269 |
9857658910 | Reliability | Yields consistent results | | 270 |
9857658911 | Validity | Refers to what the test is suppose to measure or predict | | 271 |
9857658912 | Content Validity | Refers to extent a test measures particular behaviors/traits; aplitude | | 272 |
9857658913 | Predictive Validity | Refers to function of a test in predicting a particular behavior/trait; achievement | | 273 |
9857658914 | Conversent | Narrowing down to one solution | | 274 |
9857658915 | Divergent | Coming up with many solutions | | 275 |
9857658916 | Savant Syndrome | Exceeding in 1 skill but lacking in others | | 276 |
9857658917 | Flashbulb Memory | Specific events which we can recall in great detail | | 277 |
9857658918 | Working Memory | Using other memories to remember | | 278 |
9857658919 | Spacing Effect | Rehearsal over time = longer retention | | 279 |
9857658920 | Serial Position Effect | Remembering the first and last object | | 280 |
9857658921 | Long Term Potentiation | Increased strength of synaptic connections | | 281 |
9857658922 | Mood Congruence | An individual's current mood determines the memories that are recalled | | 282 |
9857658923 | Anchoring Heuristic | Refers to the human tendency to rely on the first information received before making a decision | | 283 |
9857658924 | Noam Chomsky | Inborn Universal Grammar | | 284 |
9857658925 | B. F. Skinner | Operant Learning | | 285 |
9857658926 | Reification | The human mind's tendency to consider an object in its entirety before it perceives the object as the sum of individual parts
Ex. When a person is trying to buy a car, they first identify that it is a "car." | | 286 |
9857658927 | Factor Analysis | A statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables | | 287 |
9857658928 | Emotional Intelligence | Ability to manage and understand emotions | | 288 |
9857658929 | Normal Curve | Bell shaped |  | 289 |
9857658930 | Criterion | The extent to which a measure is related to an outcome | | 290 |
9857658931 | Alfred Adler | Inferiority complex | | 291 |
9857658932 | Mary Ainsworth | Secure attachment | | 292 |
9857658933 | Gordon Allport | Dictionary traits | | 293 |
9857658934 | Albert Bandura | Observational learning | | 294 |
9857658935 | Raymond Cattel | 16 source traits | | 295 |
9857658936 | Noam Chomskey | Inborn universal grammar | | 296 |
9857658937 | Hermann Ebbinghaus | Nonsense syllables | | 297 |
9857658938 | Erik Erikson | Psychosocial stages | | 298 |
9857658939 | Hans Eysenck | Extraversion vs Intraversion | | 299 |
9857658940 | Sigmund Freud | Unconscious + Psychosexual stages | | 300 |
9857658941 | Phineas Gage | Frontal lobe damaged | | 301 |
9857658942 | Carol Gilligan | Claimed Kohlberg morality was flawed due to lack of women | | 302 |
9857658943 | Harry Harlow | Monkey + contact comfort | | 303 |
9857658944 | Ernest Hilgard | Divided consciousness | | 304 |
9857658945 | Karen Horney | Womb Envy | | 305 |
9857658946 | William James | Functionalism | | 306 |
9857658947 | Carl Jung | Collective unconscious | | 307 |
9857658948 | Garcia and Koelling | Taste aversion | | 308 |
9857658949 | Lawrence Kohlberg | Morality (Precon, con, postcon) | | 309 |
9857658950 | Elizabeth Loftus | Misinformation effect | | 310 |
9857658951 | Konrad Lorenz | Imprinting | | 311 |
9857658952 | Abraham Maslow | Hierarchy of needs | | 312 |
9857658953 | Stanley Milgram | Shock study | | 313 |
9857658954 | Ivan Pavlov | Classical conditioning | | 314 |
9857658955 | Jean Piaget | Cognitive developement | | 315 |
9857658956 | Carl Rogers | Unconditional positive regard | | 316 |
9857658957 | Hermann Rorschach | Ink Blot Test | | 317 |
9857658958 | David Rosenhan | Faked mental illness | | 318 |
9857658959 | Martin Seligman | Learned helplessness | | 319 |
9857658960 | Hans Seyle | GAS + Alarm, resist, exhaust | | 320 |
9857658961 | B.F Skinner | Operant conditioning | | 321 |
9857658962 | Charles Spearman | General Intelligence | | 322 |
9857658963 | George Sperling | Sensory Memory | | 323 |
9857658964 | Lewis Terman | Took Binet's test | | 324 |
9857658965 | Edward L. Thorndike | Law of effect | | 325 |
9857658966 | Edward Tolman | Latent Learning | | 326 |
9857658967 | John Watson | Father of behaviorism (Little Albert) | | 327 |
9857658968 | Benjamin Whorf | Linguistic Determinism | | 328 |
9857658969 | Wilhelm Wundt | "Father of Psychology" + Structuralism | | 329 |
9857658970 | Philip Zimbardo | Stanford Prison Experiment | | 330 |
9857658971 | Repression | Block memory out of conscious awareness | | 331 |
9857658975 | General Adaptation Syndrome | | | 332 |
9857658976 | Law of Effect | | | 333 |
9857658972 | Latent Learning | Knowledge that becomes clear when reinforced
Ex. Rats given reward for maze | | 334 |
9857658973 | Theory of Mind | Being able to see something from someone else's point of view | | 335 |