LAD Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Short Term Memory's "Magic Number" = 7 ± 2

1st psych lab-: introspection-psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience (rather than science); father of modern or scientific psychology; structuralism was the approach and introspection was the methodology

Storm and Stress

three levels of traits-- 1. cardinal trait- dominant trait that characterizes your life, 2. central trait- common to all people, 3. secondary trait- surfaces in some situations and not in others

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Conditioned Taste Aversion (The Garcia Effect)

Personality traits extrovert introvert, stable unstable

3 stage model of memory (sensory-short term- long term memory)

emotional IQ (EQ)

founded psychometrics; developed the ideas of correlation, standard deviation, regression toward the mean

SPLIT BRAIN research

WIAS and WISC) - most widely used intelligence tests today