PSYCH Flashcards
What is parsimony?
The preferred assumptions that are fewer, simpler, or more consistent with other well-established theories.
What is Determinism?
The idea that
everything that happens has a cause, or determinant, that one could observe or measure. This
view is an assumption, not an established fact.
Nature VS Nurture
Nature means hereditary and Nurture means environmental.
Who did the 1st psychological lab?
Wilhelm Wundt
In what year was the first psych lab?
1879
What did Wundt have interest in?
Wundt’s interests ranged from sensory physiology and the timing of conscious experience to cultural differences in behavior,
with emphases on motivation, voluntary control,
and cognitive processes
What does psychophysical function mean?
The mathematical description of the relationship between the physical properties of a stimulus and its perceived properties.
Define Behaviorism
Behaviorism is a field of psychology that concentrates on observable, measurable behaviors and not on mental processes.
Who popularized Behaviorism?
John B. Watson
List Sigmund fraud stages of development
- Birth to 1 1/2 years: Oral stage (Infant’s pleasure centers on mouth.)
-1 1/2 to 3 years: Anal stage (Child’s pleasures focus on anus.)
-3 to 6 years: Phallic stage (child’s pleasure focus on genitals)
-6 years to puberty: Latency stage (Child represses sexual interest and develops social and intellectual skills.) - Puberty onward: Genital stage (Time of sexual awakening; source of sexual pleasure becomes someone outside of the family.)
What is a hypothesis?
a proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth.
Anecdote definition
people’s reports of isolated events,
such as an amazing coincidence or a dream or hunch that comes true.
