People to know for final Flashcards

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Socrates & Plato

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believed the mind and body to be separate
- born with knowledge

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Aristotle

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mind and body are connected
- knowledge gained from experience

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Avicenna

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mind at birth is a blank slate

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Ibn Tufail

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wrote Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
- influenced John Lockes theory

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Renee Descartes

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mind and body are both independent and connected
- substances from blood flows to brain to produce thought and movement

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John Locke

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mind and body composed of the same substance

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James Mill

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mind is entirely physical - therefore follows laws

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Helmholtz

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demonstrated nerves take time to transmit
- tested on frogs

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Wundt and Titchner

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examined structures of the mind through introspection
- created structuralism

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William James (intro psych)

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focused on how mental and behavioural processes functioned
- created functionalism

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Sigmund Freud

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founder of psychoanalysis

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John B Watson

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discovered behaviourism

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William James (consciousness)

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consciousness is not chopped up, it flows

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14
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Freud (why do we dream)

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wish fulfillment

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Hobson & McCarly (why do we dream)

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activation-synthesis model

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Cartwright (why do we dream)

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problem solving

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Ian Pavlov

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classical conditioning
- conditioned dogs with food and a whistle

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Nisbett and Wilson

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studied the halo effect

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Broadbent and Treisman

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attenuation theory
- theory of selective attention

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Thorndike

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measured the time it took cats to escape from puzzle boxes
- studied law of effect: behaviour followed by pleasant stimulus tends to be repeated

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B F Skinner

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introduced the term reinforcement
- consequence that increases the likelihood that behaviour will happen again

22
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Who was John Watson

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focused on behaviours not mental processes
- learning as a passive response to external stimuli

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Kohler

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studied learning in chimps
- they developed reward seeking behaviours when solving puzzles

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Edward Toleman

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purposive behaviourism
- focuses on behaviour while considering the purpose or goal of the behaviour as well

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Albert Bandura

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social learning theory
- observation and modelling play a key role in our behaviours

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Herman Ebbinghaus

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studied memory, more specifically the forgetting curve and spacing effect

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Francis Galton

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founded psychometrics

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Gardner

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theory of multiple intelligences

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Binet and Simon

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intelligence tests in children

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Charles Spearman

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intelligence has two components; generalized and specific ability

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David Weschler

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Weschler adult intelligence scale

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John Raven

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test of matrices for intelligence
- used across all cultures and languages because no words are involved

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James and Lange

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James-Lange theory
- physiological arousal comes before conscious experience

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Cannon and Bard

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Cannon-Bard theory
- conscious experience happens at the same time as physiological arousal

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Schacter and Singer

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initial physiological arousal is interpreted, leading to conscious experience

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Louis Thurstone

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intelligence composed of several different factors

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Abraham Maslow

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Maslows hierarchy of needs
- physiological needs, safety and security, love and belonging, self esteem, and self actualization (in that order)

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Martin Seleigman

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positive psychology

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Piaget

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child learns through interactions with the world
- children are not little adults
- Piaget’s levels of intelligence*

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James Harlow

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studied baby monkeys away from their mothers
- prefer terrycloth “mother”

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John Bowlby

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orphans fail to thrive without emotional security provided by maternal care

42
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Harlow and Bowlby together

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recognized the significance of the attachment system

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Erik Erikson

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psychosocial development - comprised of overlapping stages that extend from infancy to old age

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Sigmund Freud (personality)

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personality determined by unconscious drives, that shape how we interact with the world

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Kitty Genovese

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murdered, and lots of people heard but nobody called for help
- significance of diffusion of responsibility

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Critics of Freuds theories

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too much parental influence
he said children have no gender identity until age 6
sexist
untestable

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Darley and Latanee

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smoke filled room study
- proved bystander effect (presence of others decreases the likelihood of helping behaviour)

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Solomon Asch

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line judgement study
- people were asked to determine which line in a set of lines matched the desired line presented
- confederates of the researcher provided the clear wrong answer, influencing other participants to follow their lead and choose the wrong answer

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Stanley Milgram

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wanted to understand atrocities of WWII
- studied obedience and social pressure related to the influence had on our actions

50
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Phillip Zimbardo

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Stanford prison experiment
- studied situation and environmental influences on ones behaviour (the participants were found to lose mental sanity put into a confinement environment)

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Leon Festinger

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cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory
- cognitive dissonance is when two opposing expectations or actions occur
- social comparison theory tells us we cannot judge ourselves and often rely on comparisons to others to evaluate our own actions