Exam 4 Flashcards
Leon Festinger (1919-1989)
cognitive dissonance: insignificant justification; justifying behavior with attitude changes
state of affairs, conflict behavior, dissonance aroused
Fritz Heider (1896-1988)
attribution theory: how we explain other people’s behavior
-dispositional: internal (he doesn’t like me)
-situational: external (he got a flat tire)
fundamental attribution error: overestimate dispositional and underestimate situational attribution
Albert Bandura (1925-Present)
reciprocal determinism: personality is determined by environment, behavioral, and cognitive factors
- notion of self-efficacy
Alan Turing
Turing Test: weak/strong artificial intelligence
- strong: duplicate human thought
Information Processing Approach
keyboard- encode
storage- sensory, short term and long term memory
monitor- retrieval
Connectionism
we perform a task every day and it becomes a habit
GOFAI
Good old fashioned A I
sequentially searches for results in milliseconds
eclecticism
the best parts of multiple systems intertwined
Basic Psychology
Academic, Research
Applied Psychology
Using in fields
Boulder Model
The scientist-practitioner view
George Miller
father of cognitive psych
short term memory (7 +- 2 ideas)
Thomas Bouchard
Heritability equation:
50% biology
5% shared environment
45% nonshared environment
Sociobiology
evolutionary social psychology
biogrammar
leash principle
Konrad Lorenz
Duck Study: Attachment
bonding behavior: from birth= mother
father has to engage in bonding techniques