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AP Psychology Exam Terms PART 3 Flashcards

All the vocab needed for the 2024 AP Psychology Exam on May 9.

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Belief Bias

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Tendency of one’s preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning by making invalid conclusions.

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Belief perseverance

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Tendency to cling to our beliefs in the face of contrary evidence.

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Instinct

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Complex behaviors have fixed patterns and are not learned.

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Drive Reduction

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Physiological need Creates arousal tension (drive) that motivates you to satisfy the need.

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Optimum Arousal

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Humans aim to seek optimum levels of arousal - easier tasks requires more arousal, harder tasks need less.

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Hypothalamus

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Stimulation increases sexual behavior, destruction leads to sexual inhibition.

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Pituitary gland

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Monitors, initiates, and restricts hormones.

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Industrial/Organizational Psych

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Psychological of the workplace - focuses on employee recruitment, placement, training, satisfaction, productivity.

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Zygote

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0-14 days, cells are dividing.

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Embryo

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Until about 9 weeks, vital organs are being formed.

The heart begins to develop/beat.

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Fetus

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9 weeks to birth, overall development

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Teratogens

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External agents that can cause abnormal prenatal development.

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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

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Large amount of alcohol leads to FAS, causes deformities, mental retardation, death.

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Maturation

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Natural course of development, occurs no matter what (walking).

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Reflexes

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Innate responses we’re born with.

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Habituation

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After continual exposure, you pay less attention - used to test babies.

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Visual Cliff Experiment

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Babies have to learn depth perception, so they will cross a “Cliff.”

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Who created Cognitive Development?

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Jean Piaget.

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Schemas

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Concepts or frameworks that organize info.

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Assimilation

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Incorporate new info into existing schema (aSSimilation = Same Stuff).

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Accomodation

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Adjust existing schemas to incorporate new information (ACcommodation = All Change).

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Sensorimotor Stage

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Birth to 2 years: focused on exploring the world around them.

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Develop Sense of Self

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By 2 years, can recognize themselves in the mirror.

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Pre-operational Stage:

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2-7 years: use pretend play, developing language, using intuitive reasoning.

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Lack Conservation

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Recognize that substances remain the same despite changes in shape, length, or position (girls with juice in glasses).

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Egocentric

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Inability to distinguish one’s own perspective from another’s - think everyone sees what they see.

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Concrete Operational Stage

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7-11 yrs: use Operational thinking, classification, and can think logical in concrete context.

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Formal Operational Stage

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11-15 yrs: use abstract and idealist thoughts, hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

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Temperament

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Patterns of emotional reactions and babies.

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Harry Harlow

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MONKEY EXPERIMENT
- discovered that contact comfort is more important than feeding.

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Mary Ainsworth

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Attachment Style.

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Secure attachment

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(60% of infants)
- upset when mom leaves, easily calmed on return
- tend to be more stable adults

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Avoidant attachment

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(20% of infants)
- actively avoids mom, doesn’t care when she leaves

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Ambivalent attachment

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(10% of infants)
- actively avoids mom, freaks out when she leaves

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Disorganized attachment

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(5% of infants)
- confused, fearful, dazed
RESULT OF ABUSE

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Baumrind

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Parenting Styles.

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Authoritarian Style

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Rules & Obedience
- “my way or the highway”
- kids lack initiative in college

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Permissive Style

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Kids do whatever
- no rules
- kids lack initiative in college

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Authoritative Style

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Give and take with kids
- kids become socially competent and reliable

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Who created Moral Development?

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KOHLBERG!!!

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Preconventional Morality

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Children: they follow rules to avoid punishment.

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Conventional Morality

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Adolescents: follow rules because rules exist to keep order.

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Post conventional Morality

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Adults: they do what they believe is right.

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Who created Socioemotional Development?

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Erik Erikson and his stages.

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First Stage

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Trust vs. Mistrust (birth-18 months):
if needs are dependably met, infants develop basic trust.

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Second Stage

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Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt (1-3 yrs):
toddlers learn to exercise their will and think for themselves.

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Third Stage

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Initiative vs. Guilt (3-6 yrs):
learn to initiate tasks and carry out plans.

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Fourth Stage

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Industry vs. Inferiority (6 yrs to puberty):
learn the pleasure of applying themselves to tasks.

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Fifth Stage

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Identity vs. Role Confusion (Adolescence through 20s):
refine a sense of self by testing roles and forming an identity.

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Sixth Stage

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Intimacy vs. Isolation (20s-40s):
form close relationships and gain capacity for love.

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Seventh Stage

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Generativity vs. Information (40s-60s):
discover a sense of contributing to the world, through family & work.

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Eighth and final Stage

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Integrity vs. Despair (60s and up):
reflect on your life, feel satisfaction or failure.

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Puberty

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Rapid Skeletal and sexual Maturation.

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Primary sex characteristics

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Necessary structures for reproduction.

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Nonreproductive characteristics that develop during puberty.

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Frontal lobe is not fully developed until what age?

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25.

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Gender roles

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expected behaviors (norms) for men/women.

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What did Sigmund Freud say about personality?

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It was largely unconscious.

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Conscious

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Immediate awareness of current environment.

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Preconscious

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Available to awareness.

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Unconscious

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Unavailable to awareness.

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id

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Our hidden, true, animalistic wants and desires - operates on the pleasure principle, all about rewards and avoiding pain.

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Superego

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Our moral conscious.

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Ego

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Reality principle, has to deal with society, stuck mediating between the id and superego.

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Sublimination

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Replace unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one.

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First Stage of Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

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Oral Stage (0-18 months)
- pleasure focuses on the mouth (id)

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Second Stage of Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

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Anal stage (18-36 months)
- pleasure involves eliminative functions (ego forms)

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Third Stage of Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

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Phallic Stage (3-6 yrs)
- pleasure focuses on genitals (superego forms)

69
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Oedipal Complex

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Young boys learn to identify with their father out of fear of retribution (castration anxiety).

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Electra Complex

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Young girls learn to identify with their mother because they cannot with their father (penis envy).

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Latency Stage

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(6 yrs to puberty)
- personality is set

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Genital Stage

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(adulthood)
- sexual reawakening
- turn sexual wants onto an appropriate person

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Fixation

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Can become “stuck” in an earlier stage - influences personality (oral stage, smokes/drinks, anal is “anal retentive”, phallic is promiscuous).

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Psychoanalysis

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Analyze a person’s unconscious motives through the use of free association.

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Free Association

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Say aloud everything that comes to mind without hesitation.

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Projective Tests

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Ambiguous stimuli shown to look at your unconscious motives.

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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Tell a story about a picture. Used for personality.

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Rorschach inkblot

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Show an inkblot to individual.

79
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Carl Jung

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Believed in the collective unconscious (shared inherited reservoir of memory - explains common myths across civilization & time).

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Karen Horney

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Said personality develops in context of social relationships, NOT sexual urges.

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Traits

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Enduring personality characteristics.

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Self-efficacy

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Belief that one can succeed, so you ensure you do.

83
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Wechsler

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Developed the WAIS and WISC - most commonly used today.

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Flynn effect

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IQ has steadily risen over the past 80 years - probably due to education standards and better IQ tests.

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Standardization

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Administer a test to a representative sample of future test takers to establish a basis for meaningful comparison.

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Valid

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Test is accurate - measures what it is intended to.

87
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Content validity

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Test measures what you want it to.

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Predictive validity

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Test is able to accurately predict a trait (high math scores predict a good engineer).

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John Watson

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Little Albert experiment.

90
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Alfred Adler

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Believed that childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation; Believed that people are primarily searching or self-esteem and achieving the ideal self.

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Carl Rogers

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Humanistic psychologist who believed in Unconditional Positive Regard (reflected back clients thoughts so that they developed a self awareness or their feelings; client centered therapy).

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Ivan Pavlov

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Father of Classical Conditioning.

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Hans Eysenck

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Personality is determined to a large extent by genes; used the terms extroversion and introversion.

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S. Schacter

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Believed that to experience emotions one must be physically aroused and must then label the arousal.

95
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Robert Sternberg

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Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
1. Academic problem-solving
2. Practical intelligence
3. Creative intelligence

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Howard Gardner

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Theory of multiple intelligences.

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Albert Bandura

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Observational learning with the BOBO DOLL EXPERIMENT.

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Thorndike

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Law of effect.

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Alfred Binet

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General IQ tests.

100
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Lewis Terman

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Revised Binet’s IQ test and established norms for American Children.

101
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David Wechsler

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Established an intelligence test especially for adults (Wechsler Intelligence Test for Adults).

102
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Charles Spearman

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All cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled “g” for general ability.

If you’re good at one thing, you’re most likely going to be good at another thing.

103
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H. Rorschach

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Developed one of the first projective tests, the Inkblot Test; subject reads the inkblots nd projects to the observer the aspects of their personality.

104
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Philip Zimbardo

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STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT.

Proved that people’s behavior depends to a large extent on the roles they are asked to play.

105
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Harry Harlow

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Studied theory of attachment in infant Rhesus monkeys; also experimented on the effects of social isolation in young monkeys and observed that they become severely emotionally disturbed and never recover fully.

106
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James-Lange Theory

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Our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

107
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Cannon-Bard Theory

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An emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion.

108
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Two-Factor Theory of Schachter’s theory

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To experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal.

109
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Cognitive-Dissonance

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We act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent.

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Scapegoat Theory

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Prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

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Corpus Callosum vs. Cerebral Cortex

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Corpus callosum divides the brain.

Cerebral Cortex covers the brain.

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lateral hypothalamus vs. ventromedial hypothalamus

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lateral hypothalamus stimulates hunger.

Ventromedial hypothalamus suppresses hunger.

113
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Identical twins vs. fraternal twins

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Identical twins have the same fertilized egg.

Fraternal twins have two separate eggs.

114
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Afferent neurons vs. efferent neurons

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Afferent (sensory, body to the brain).

Efferent (motor, brain to the body).

115
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Assimilation vs. Accommodation

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Assimilation (all four-legged animals are “doggies”).

Accommodation (“doggies are different then “kitties”).

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Concrete operations vs. Formal operations

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Concrete = logical thinking.

Formal = philosophical thinking.

117
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Sensation vs. Perception

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Sensation = bottom-up processing.

Perception = top-down processing.

118
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Primacy effect vs. recency effect

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Primacy = first items remembered.

Recency = last items remembered.

119
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Fluid vs. crystalized intelligence

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Fluid = brain power.

Crystalized = acquired knowledge.

120
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Lithium vs. Librium

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Lithium = treats bipolar.

Librium = treats anxiety.

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