Theory of Evolution

Founder of behaviorism; Little Albert experiment

Hierarchy of Needs

Father of Classical Conditinoning

Operant Conditioning

Child Psychologist who came up with the 4 stages of cognitive development for children

Three stages of moral development

8 stages in a person's life marked by a psychological 'crisis' of "who am I"?

Criticized Freud for being sexist and said men had "womb envy"

Criticized Kohlberg for only studying boys

Studied memory and came up with the forgetting curve

Came up with the concept of Just Noticeable Difference (a law that was named after him)

Theory that Facial expressions are universal

Stages of grief

Came up with the Law of Effect. Behavior followed by favorable consequences becomes more likely

the spinal cord contains a "fence" that blocks pain signals or allows them to go to the brain

needs create an aroused tension that motivates an organism to satisfy the needs

feeling and the physiological expression of emotion occur independently but exactly at the same time

physical changes in the body happen first, which then leads to the experience of emotion.

To experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

Defining what "exercise" is in an experiment for example

The variable that will (possibly) CAUSE the change

The Variable that will (possibly) be changed

The group that has a change in it to see if the hypothesis is correct or not

the group that will be used as a comparison

average

middle value of the list

Most common value

tells how spread out the numbers are from the average 68% of numbers will be within 1 of the avg

helps quantify whether a result is likely due to chance or to some factor of interest

divides/connects the hemispheres of the brain

layer that covers the brain

creates language

understands language

stimulates hunger

suppresses hunger

sensory, body to the brain

motor, brain to the body

step-by-step problem solving

shortcuts for problem solving

stereotypes

based on recent info

The tendency to believe that others agree with us more than they do

the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint when in a group

perception of a relationship existing when none exists bc we notice it when it fits our beliefs

the belief that we are worse off than we are when we compare ourselves to others

those in a conflicting pursuit of self-interest get caught in mutually self-destructive behavior

every time; teaches quickest, extinguishes quickest

sometimes; teaches slower, extinguishes slower

slowly reinforcing subject as they approach desired behavior

food, love; things that are needed to live

money - things that represent things we need to live

therapies that use techniques like systematic desensitization and VR Therapy

counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations

associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stiumli

using classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that create unwanted behaviors

associates unpleasant state (like nausea) with an unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol)

SSRIs like Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox

Thorazine and Clopazine

Lithium

Valium and Xanax

Stimulants Ritalin and Aderol