Term
|
Definition
| Maintained that personality and ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance (human traits are inherited) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Theory of evolution, survival of the fittest - origin of the species |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| introspection-psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience (rather than science) "Father of Experimental Psychology", first formal laboratory at niversity of Leipzig |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Founder of behaviorism - Did study of generalization |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Watson's study on the generalization of fear. Conditioning subject to be afraid |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Neo Freudian, believed that childhood social not sexual tensions are crucial for personality formation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| People had conscious and unconscious awareness - two layers of unconcious archetypes personal/collective |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Three levels of traits: 1 Cardinal trait it is the dominant trait that characterizes your life, 2 Central trait-one common to all people, 3 Secondary trait it surfaces in some situations and not in others |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Rational Emotive Therapy - focuses on altering clients patterns of irrational thinking to reduce amaladaptive behaviour and emotions |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Hierarchy of needs - Needs at the lower level dominate an indiciduals motivation as long as they are unsatisfied. Once these needs are adequately met, the higher needs occupy the indiviuals attention |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Humanistic psychology the theory that emphasizes the unique tquality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Operaant conditioning techniques to manipulate the consequences of an orgamisms behavior in order to observe the effects of subsequent behavior. Also Skinner Box |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Classical Conditioning - an unconditional stimulus naturally elicits a reflexive behaviour called an unconditional response but with repeated pairings with a neutral stimulus, the neutral stimulus will elicit the response. Dog salivation, etc. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| disagreed with skinner and said there is an infinite number of sentences in a language. he said that humans have an inborn native ability to develop language |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| four stage theory of cognitive development. 1 Sensorimotor, 2 preoperational, 3 concrete operational, 4 formal operational. he said that 2 basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth assimilation and accomodation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| people evolve through 8 stages over the life span. each stage marked by psychological crisis that involves confronting "who I am" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| His theory states that there are 3 levels of moral reasoning and each level can be divided into 2 stages. 1 preconventional, 2 conventional, 3 post-conventional. his theory focuses on moral reasoning rather than overt behavior |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| She maintained that Kolbergs work was developed only observing boys and overlooked potential differences between the habitual moral judgements of men and women |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| asserts that the perception of emotion is our awareness of our physiological response to emotion arousing stimuli, eg: sight of coming car-pounding heart-fear |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an emotion-arousing stimulus triggers cognitive body responses siultaneously eg, arousal and emotion are simultanous |
|
|
