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01/24/2013

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STRUCTURALISM
Definition

OPPOSITE OF GESTALT

WILLIAM WUNDT

EDWARD TITCHENER

Term
WILLIAM WUNDT
Definition

1ST EXPERIMENTAL LAB TO PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

STRUCTURALISM

Term
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Definition
SIGMUND FREUD
Term

FUNCTIONALISM

 

Definition

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THOUGHT NO HOW SOMEONE THINKS MORE WHYYY SOMEONE THINKS

WILLIAM JAMES 

*SURVIVAL

Term
BEHAVIROISM
Definition

PAVLOV-classical conditioning

unconditioned response- food 

resonse- food response

neutral- bell-->conditioned stimulus 

conditioned response- salivation to bell

JOHN B. WATSON

BF.SKINNER

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JOHN B WATSON
Definition

INTRUMENTAL LEARNING (CONDITIONING) 

BABY ALBERT

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B.F SKINNER
Definition

OPERANT CONDITIONING

OPERANT- person controls reinforcement 

promote action- +,-

punishment<- stop action

THORNDIKE-law of effect

Term
GESTALT
Definition

HUMANS FIRST OBSERVE SITUATION SEE ISSUES "WHOLES" "PARTS"

MAX WERTHEIMER

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HUMANISM
Definition

CARL RODGERS

ABRAHAM MASLOW

ERIC ERIKSON

people make good choices 

freedom of choice

self-actualization

unconditioned positive regard

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COGNITIVE
Definition

JEAN PIAGET

sensory preopporational

concrete (physical stuff)

formal

Term
ALBERT BANDURA
Definition

BOBO DOLL

(OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING)

Term
HARRY HARLOW
Definition
MONKEY EXPERIMENT CONTACT COMFORT
Term
SURVEY
Definition

set of questions online, written or asked

STRENGTHS- cheap, wide variety, quick, a lot of people

WEAKNESSES- biased, can't determine cause and effect, questions may not be valid, slanted questions, lie, fill half way out 

Term

NATURALISTIC OBSERVATION

 

Definition

spying on people

STRENGTHS- assume behavior is authentic, researcher biased highly unlikely

 

WEAKNESSES- can't be replicated, expensive, cannot determine cause and effect

Term
CORRELATIONAL STUDY
Definition

reasearcher 2 sets of data and compare

why? to see there is a relation

positive- both up or both down

negative- one up one down

correlation coefficient tanning booth and skin cancer

STRENGTHS- research real life issues, close to cause and effect but not

WEAKNESSES- original data may be flawed, can't determine cause and effect, people may die

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LONGITUDINAL
Definition

group or individual over long time'why? determine if something when young to old was part

ex.) drugs cancer does work? side effects over years?

fights in high school in jail later?

Term
CASE STUDY
Definition

shadow for at least a year document everything

STRENGTHS- lots of info

WEAKNESSES- lots of info on one person hard to generate too narrow to focus, expensive, lose funding

Term

BRAIN

CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID- CUSION PROESS INFORMATION PEROPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 

3 PARTS

 

Definition

HIND- medula-oblongata ( regualtes involuntary), pons (regulate body movement, attention, sleep), cerebellum (balance)

MID- reticulator activation system (regulate attention, sleep, arousal ex.) loud noise), corpus collosum

FORE- thalamus ( air traffic controller), hypothalamus ( regulates body temp, hunger thirst, motiavtion), limbic system (emotion hunger, sex and aggression), amygadala ( gateway to limbic system, allows us to fear), hippocampus( associated w/ memory and learning)

Term

FRONTAL LOBE

 

Definition

reasoning

speech

movement

problem solving

Term
PARIETAL LOBE
Definition

perception of stimuli related to touch, pressure, temperature, and pain

can be relfexive

Term
OCCIPITAL LOBE
Definition

concerned with vision

 

Term
TEMPORAL LOBE
Definition

perception and recognition of cuditory stimuli

memory

Term
AFFERENT VS EFFERENT CELLS
Definition

EFFERENT- EXIT AWAY FROM THE BODY

AFFERENT- TO THE BRAIN

Term
SEMANTIC MEMORY
Definition
FACTS
Term
PROCEDURAL
Definition
HOW TO
Term
EPISODIC
Definition
REMEBER WHEN WEDDING
Term
SENSORY
Definition
A FEW SECONDS SENSES
Term
SHORT TERM MEMORY
Definition

20-30 SECONDS 

5- 9BITS+- 2,7

HAVE TO ELABORATE

Term

LONG TERM

RETREVAL

Definition
PERMANENT UNLESS DAMAGE
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