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| founded structuralism, Father of Psychology, Created first laboratory |
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| scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities |
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| the study of how people function and adapt to their surroundings as a whole |
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| Sigmund Freud: the unconscious mind and things we are unaware of- conflicts between biological insticts and society |
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| thoughts, feelings, motives that cannot be directly observed |
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| everything we do that can be directly observed |
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| breaking down thought processes to their basic forms.. TITCHENER |
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| the true cause of behavior is the environment you're in; rejected thought process. |
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| believed in the 8 stages of development |
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| Ivan Pavlov and J.B. Watson |
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| scientific study of behavior- observed behavior and learning. |
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| thoughts determined by behavior, based on your environment- BANDURA |
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| capacity for growth, freedom to choose your own destiny, and positive qualities |
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| improve someone's self perception by providing a warm therapeutic environment |
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| "achieving your potential is limitless"- believes in meeting basic needs |
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| focusing on chemical imbalances in the brain |
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| influencing mental process, how we analyze and problem solve |
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| emphasizes society, ethnicity, and gender (relationships) |
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| bits and pieces of different approaches to sum up your own personal thoughts |
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| enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world |
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| enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world |
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| the selfish part of our minds, works from the pleasure principle, the biggest part of our mind |
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| rational decision making, problem solving, conscious control; has contact with reality |
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| morals, what's right and wrong. our "conscience" |
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| pushing tension out of awareness, into the unconscious mind |
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| covering one moral with another, to make it more acceptable to the ego |
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| shifting feelings from one object to another |
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| socially accepted action, replaces an unacceptable impulse |
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| attributing your own short comings and faults onto others |
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| expressing an unacceptable impulse by transforming it into its opposite |
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| behaving at a level that is lower than normal characteristics |
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| refusing to acknowledge anxiety producing realities |
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| making up for a perceived inferiority by becoming superior in an area |
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| trying to become like someone else |
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| stems from a conflict at a certain age |
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| humans have more of a need than just sex; sociocultural roles play bigger roles than biological roles |
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| used a principle of opposites; led to Myers Briggs inventory |
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| every individual is unique; created the superiority and inferiority complex |
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| said personality is able to change, because behavior does |
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| emphasizes environment, behavior, AND cognition; we decide our behavior |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| the acceptance of others, genuine sincerity (Carl Rogers) |
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| lower self esteem, relationships are hindered |
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| someone's perception of their own abilities and behavior |
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| who we want to be, betters your self esteem |
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| any relatively permanent change in behavior, brought about by experience |
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| learning where a neutral stimulus is paired with another stimulus to elicit some sort of reflex response (involuntary- we dont choose) |
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| when a previously conditioned response decreases, eventually disappears |
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| the reemergence of an extinguished response |
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| conditioned response that follows a similar stimulus from original response |
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| learning in which a voluntary response becomes likely (or unlikely) to occur again (you choose to wake up at an alarm clock, for example) |
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| a process by which a stimulus increases, so the behavior will be repeated. You WANT this behavior to happen again |
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| something is added to your environment to repeat behavior (praise, candy) |
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| something is taken away to repeat behavior (taking a pill to remove a headache) |
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| stimulus decreasing the possibility that the behavior will occur again |
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| adding punishment (spanking for cursing) |
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| taking something away (getting grounded) |
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| Cognitive learning approach |
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| focuses on the thought processes that underlie learning |
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