Psychology exams
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- Alfred Binet
- He made the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
- Alfred Binet's 4 elements of intellegence
- Direction, Adaptability, Comprehension, and self-evaluation
- Equation to get your IQ (the old way)
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Mental age
_________________ x 100=IQ
chronologial age - Abraham Maslow developed this theory
- Hierarchy of Needs
- Heirachy of Needs
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Made by Maslow
From bottom to top:
Physiological needs
Safety Needs
Belonging
Self-esteem
Self-actualization - Harry Harlow
- did the baby monkey experiment to find out the need for contact comfort
- Albert Bandura
- Believes in social learning; learning from the behavior of others
- General Adaptation Syndrome
- A sequence of behavior that occurs in reaction to prolonged stress.
- Stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome
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-Alarm Reaction: Preparations for an attack
-Stage of resistance: trying to restore balance
-exhaustion: giving up the battle - Define frustration
- the process that demands a choice between alternatives
- Erik Erikson
- Group identity versus alienation: Idea that early adolescents either belong to a group or feel lost
- Group Identity vs. alienation
- Idea that early adolescents either belong to a group or feel lost
- Aptitude test
- Measures ones special skills
- Achievement tests
- Tests amount of specific material remembered from the classroom
- Define Theory
- A general framework for scientific study; smaller aspects can be tested
- Define Psychology
- The scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
- Intelligence
- The ability to understand and adapt to the environment by using a combination of inherited abilities and learning experiences.
- Gardner's 7 intelligences
- language, logical, visual, musical, bodily movement, intrapersonal, and interpersonal
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Father of Psychology
- Projection
- The process of attributing our thoughts to someone else
- Repression
- To forget
- Rationalization
- to make excuses
- Regression
- To go backward
- Denial
- to not admit
- Reaction Formation
- To do the opposite
- Displacement
- To redirect anger
- Identification with aggressor
- to adopt anothers characteristics
- Sublimation
- To channel bad impulse into something good.
- Intellectualization
- the process of removing our feeling about an event and discussing it in a coolly rational and unemotional way
- Causes of mental retardation
- Injuries, deiseases, lack of oxygen at birth, extreme malnutrition, exposure to toxic chemicals
- Mental Retardation
- Below average intellectual functioning that prevents a person from being able to perform at the level appropriate for his or her age
- Self-Actualization
- the state of having brought to life the full potential of our skills
- Stress
- A physical strain that results from demands or changes in the invironment
- Projective Tests
- Tests that measure inner feelings elicited by a vague stimulus, such as an ink blot test or an unclear picture
- Characteristics of Depression
- Very slow speech, lack of energy, sense of hopelessness, extreme feelings of worthlessness, disturbance in appetites and sleeps patterns, and frequent thoughts of death and suicide.