Psychology Terms
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- Intrinsic Motivaiton
- A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake
- Identity Claims
- People's websites
- William Furness
- Taught orangutan to speak english
- Howard Gardner
- 8 intelligences
- Functional Words
- Pronouns Prep. articles, social words
- functional fixedness
- our tendency to think of only the familiar functions for objects, without imagining alternative uses.
- Classic Conditioning
- Happens when a CS is presented just before a US
- John B watson
- Father of Modern Psychology
- Robert Dunbar
- "It is essential to feel connected, chatting, and gossiping is equal to chimps grooming one another, social behavior.
- Lewis Terman
- Stanford Binet IQ test in the United States
- Syntax
- Words are organized together according to Rules
- Little Albert
- In experiment where was caused to fear furry objects
- Cognitive map
- A mental representation of the layout of one's environment.
- explicit memories
- Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare"
- Semantics
- Arbitrary units which have meanings
- Heuristic
- a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently.
- Semantic Encoding
- Processing a word deeply
- Pavlov
- first person to study learning, how do we associate 2 things in our minds? studied stomach and dogs salivating
- Thorndike
- Wrote a book about animal intelligence.
- Martin Horn
- Fake out hypnotist
- Hippocampus
- Explicit memories general knowledge facts
- William Stern
- Derived IQ system
- Cerebellum
- Implicit memories skills and conditioned responses
- implicit memories
- Retention independent of conscious recollection.
- kinesthetic sense
- monitors the position and movement of individual body parts
- Garnders and Washoe and A.S.L.
- Taught sign language to chimp and was used in a sensible context
- Robert Sternberg
- 3 intelligences analytical, creative and practical
- Weber's law
- A difference threshold increases in proportion to the stimulus
- Storage
- retaining that info.
- Representativeness Heuristic
- judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information
- validity
- the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
- Franz Mesmer
- animal magnetism, used magnets to pass over body, then hands for hypnosis
- Alfred Binet and Theodore Sinon
- Measure mental age
- Partial Reinforcment
- fixed-interval, fixed-ratio, variable-interval, and variable-ratio
- Hering's opponent-process theory
- two additonal color processes, theory confirmed by the phenomenon of afterimages.
- Retrieval
- Getting the info. back out
- Benjamin Whorff
- "The words we have effects how we view the world" language determines thought
- standardizing
- defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardized group.
- latent learning
- Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
- Mary Cover Jones
- First behavior psychologist
- Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory
- proposed that the retina contains three types of color receptors, which we now know are cones.
- Kenneth Crate
- Lived day, followed ppl all day with camera
- EAR
- Comes on every 12 minutes for 30 seconds.
- extrinsic motivation
- a desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment.
- Amygdala
- Where memories of emotional events are stored
- Content words
- What is actually happening
- WAIS
- most used IQ tool
- Hayes's
- Viki
- operant conditioning
- Organism learns associations between its own behavior and resulting events
- Algorithm
- a methodical, ological rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
- Long term potentiation
- Neural Basis of Learning and memory
- Cognitive Processes
- Consists of Thoughts Perceptions, and Expectations
- Encoding
- getting info. into the brain
- reliability
- the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting
- Cansey
- Pygmy chimnpanzee, seemed to get impressive levels of syntax, he pucked up English from his mother
- Self Verification Theory
- Try to show other ppl how you see yourself.
- vestibular sense
- monitors the position and movement of the whole body.
- B.F. Skinner
- Law of Effect "Children learn to speak by observing parents language." "If have organism behave a certain way, reward it and it will increase in probability.