PY 100 FINAL
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- Which perspective feels reality is subjective
- a humanists perspective
- Which personality theory employs modeling
- The social learning theory
- Social learning theory, what function does it stress
- classical conditioning, operant conditioning and modeling
- Harlows findings about social deprivation in monkeys
- Revealed that abnormal experiences during the first 6 months of life have a detrimental effect on social behavior
- Question of study by Timothy Strahlman
- If our ideal self is so unrealistically perfect that we know it can never be reached, then do we feel like failures
- what is the primary interest of psychologists that study personality
- traits
- Collective Unconscious
- According to Jung, the content of the unconscious mind with which all humans are born
- who determines the conditions of worth?
- patients
- Dependent variables?
- Variable whos quantitative value depends on the effects of the independent variable
- Reflection
- A technique used in humanistic psychotherapy in which the therapist reflects the emotions of the client to help clarify their feelings
- Definition of emotion
- an affective stat of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciouness
- Adler, when is striving for superiority healthy
- Not healthy to achieve feelings of superiority over other individuals
- In terms of personality what is a trait?
- the characteristics that define personality
- Nature vs. Nurture debate
- Some psychological theorists believe that nearly all developmental changes are controlled by biological factors, while others believe that the psychological environment is the master of our development
- social interest
- Adler noted that it is the ability to establish loving, helpful relationships with other people
- definition of psychology
- the sum or characteristics of the mental states and processes of a person or class of persons, or of the mental states and processes involved in a field of activity
- research method measures relationship between variables without changing them
- The correlation method is a research method that measures the strength of the relation between variables
- Ivan Pavlov? Who is he?
- Russian Physiologist, that developed the concept of conditioned response.
- Definition of Learning
- Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about through experience, that is, through interactions with the evironment
- whos credited as the founder of the first psychological laboratory
- Wilhelm Wundt
- definition of personality
- the sum total of the physical, mental, emotional and social characteristics of an individual
- Atkinson and Shifferin
- They came up with the influential stage theory of memory that meets our needs to store information for different lengths of time
- Personal unconscious, and archetypes
- The motives, conflicts, and information that are repressed by a person because they are threatening to that individual
- Correct route a message route a message takes through a neuron
- Dendrites>Nucleus>Axon>(then whether its traveling afferent or efferent)
- Neuron
- Neurons are specialized cells that receive, process, and transmit information to other cells
- Independent variables?
- Variable who's quantitative value can be independently controlled by the researcher
- 9. information processing theory is (memory)
- theories of memory used on a computer as a model
- Id
- The inborn part of the unconscious mind that uses the primary process to satisfy its needs and that acts according to the pleasure principle
- Ego
- The part of the mind that uses reality principle
- Super Ego
- The part of the mind that opposes the desires of the id by enforcing moral restrictions and by striving to attain perfection
- how information moves through the stage model of memory (Long Term Memory)
- the third stage of memory, involving the storage of information that is kept for long periods of time.
- The trait that dominates a persons life is called a?
- Cardinal Trait
- Different levels of consciousness according to Sigmund Freud?
- Id, Ego, and Super Ego
- CS US CR UR
- Controlled stimulus, Uncontrolled stimulus, Controlled Response, Uncontrolled response
- What theory is called the third force
- the humanistic theory
- Notion of incongruent and congruent...or Carl Rogers
- Does not believe that we are born with an unconscious mind, rather we deny awareness to information and feelings that differ too much from our concepts of self and ideal self. Has a Humanistic approach known as 'Client-Centered psycho-therapy' this is based on the clients ability to help themselves. The Therapist must be warm, genuinely able to like the clients and unconditionally accept everything they think feel or do without criticism, they also must have empathy
- how information moves through the stage model of memory (Short Term Memory)
- the second stage of memory, in which five to nine bits of information can be stored for brief periods of time
- how information moves through the stage model of memory (Sensory Register)
- first stage of memory in which an exact image of each sensory experience is held briefly until it can be processed
- Operant Conditioning
- The form of learning in which the consequences of behavior lead to changes in the probability of its occurrence
- Bandera had to say about personality
- Self regulation is the process of cognitively reinforcing and punishing our own behavior, depending on whether it meets our personal standards
- what is the primary difference between descriptive methods and formal experiment
- Descriptive methods don't really manipulate the independent variable, while formal experiments do allow you to do that
- Extrovert
- according to jung the tendency of some individuals to be friendly and open to the world
- how do social learning and trait theories differ
- trait theories just describe a persons different traits, social learning theories tell us how we act differently , and thats by socially learning from other people
- Definition of developmental psychology
- The field of psychology that is concerned with changes that take place in people during their life span
- Introvert
- according to jung the tendency of some individuals to be shy and to focus their attention on themselves