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BF skinner
uncontested champion of behaviourism from 1950 - 1980 advocated a functional analysis
Functional analysis
study of systematic relations between environmental events and behavioural events
Frequency of a behaviour changes when it produces a consequence studied by BF skinner
operant conditioning
Walden two
famous novel written by BF skinner describing utopian society based on application of behavioural principles
School-based of belief that whole is different than sum of its parts
Gestalt psych
Illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession
phi phenomenon
Max wertheimer
co-founder of gestalt psych wrote seminal paper about phi phenomenon marking start of school
Kurt Koffka
co-founder of Gestalt wrote paper leading to misconception in America that school was abo8t perception
perceptual constnacy
perception of whole remains intact despite fluctuating sensory information from it key concept in gestalt psych
insightful learning
sudden ability to solve problem after perceiving relations among it’s parts
Conscious experience is like a map of the under lying brain experience
Isomorphism
A school that emphasizes unconscious motivation subject matter is psychoanalysis. The primary method is clinical observation
psychoanlysis
His use of magnetic therapy induce trances in patients
Franz memer
Martin Charcot and Pierre Janet
their pioneering treatment of hysteria with hypothesis shifted psychiatry from physical to mental viewpoint
cattarsis freud
conscious expression of repressed ideas brings emotional release
sigmund freud
founder of psychoanlysis
josef brever
his case reports on anna o played critical role in development of psychoanlysis
patient develops feeling for therapist similar to feelings for significant other first reported by josef brever
transference
psychotherapeutic technique in which patient says whatever comes to mind
free association
cause of all neuroses is sexual abuse during childhood proposed and later discarded by freud
seduction theory
repression
unacceptable ideas are forced from the conscious level and left to operate at an unconscious level key concept in psychoanalysis
collective psychic energy associated with life instinct
Libido
instinctual aspect of personality operating at unconscious level
ID
Rational aspect of personality responsible for controlling id
ego
moral aspect of personality derived from internalizing values of others
superego
defense mechanisms
ways that ego alters reality at unconscious level reduce anxitey
Oedipus complex
boys unconsciously desire to sexually passes mother and destroy father
Anna Freud
psychoanalyst who developed ego psych piner in child analysis
ego psych
school that expanded psychoanalysis to accept the independence of ego from id
founder of analytical psych
Carl Jung
School descended from psychoanalysis emphasizes the collective unconscious and self-actualization
analytical psych
reservoir of material at deepest level be easily recalled
personal unconscious
collective unconscious
reservoir of material at deepest level of unconscious that contains archetypes
emotional responses to significant life events that are inherited and reside in the collective unconscious
archetypes
alfred adler
founder of individual psych
individual psych
school descended from psychoanalysis emphasizes how compensatory mechanisms affect personal growth
pathological condition resulting from the inability to compensate for feelings of inferiority
inferiority complex
Karen horney
a psychoanalyst who stressed cultural factors as determinants of personality
basic anxiety
feelings of despair caused by parent frustrating basic needs of child
School concerned with uniqueness and basic goodness of human 1960
humanistic psych
spiritual father of humanistic psych
Abraham Maslow
realization of ones full potential key concept in humanistic psych
self-actualization
unconditional positive regard
mother gives love to child without preconditions Roger claims essential to healthy personally
