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Jean Piaget

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development psychologist, development of intelligence in children

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Sigmund Freud

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father of psychoanalysis; emphasized unconscious drives

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Albert Bandura

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social learning theory, Bobo doll experiment, observational learninig

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Carl Rogers

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father of client centered therapy; famous humanist

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Stanley Schachter

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2 factor theory of emotional experience

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Edward Thornndike

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behaviorrist- formulated the Law of Effect

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Abraham Maslow

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humanist scientist- hierarchy of needs

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Gordon Allport

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one of the first psychologists to study personality (trait approach)

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Erik erikson

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neoreudian. 8 stage model of psychosocial development

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William James

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Wrote first Principles of Psychology text; founder of Pragmatsm

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Raymond Cattell

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developed theory of fluid and crystallized intellifences; 16pf test

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Raymond Watson

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founded behaviorist school of psychology, worked with Baby Albert

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Kurt Lewin

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founder of modern social psychology

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Carl Jung

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neofreudian; developed theory of collective unconscious, MBTI test

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Ian Pavlov

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discovered classical conditioning

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Harry Harlow

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importance of maternal contact for infants

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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studied development of moral reasoning in children and adolescents

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Martin Seligman

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studied depression, helplessness, optimism vs. pessimism

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Noam Chomsky

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linguistic and psychology: innate “language acquisition device”

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Solomon Asch

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Pioneer of social psychology, conformity experiments

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Stanley Milgram

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social psychology: obedience/shock experiments

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David Wechsler

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developed best known intelligence scales :WAIS and WISC

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Joseph wolpe

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Behaviorist: known for systematic desensitization

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Konrad Lorenz

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studied group behavior patterns: best known for imprinting

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Alfred Adler
neofreudian, founder of individual psychology, emph. social forces
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Gary Cannon
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
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Wilhelm Wundt
father of experimental psychology; established first experimental lab
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Hermann Rorschach
psychoanalyst who developed inkblot test to probe unconscious
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Philip Zimbardo
social psychologist, Stanford Prison experiment
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Paul Ekman
studied facial expressions; 6 universal emotions across cultures
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Edward Tichener
structuralism; a student in Wundt's lab
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John Garcia
demonstrated conditioned taste aversion; immediate conditioning
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Edward Tolman
discovered latent learning
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Benjamin Whorf
language influences thought; linguistic relativity
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Hans Selye
defined "fight or flight" stress response, General adaptive syndrome
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LEv Vygotsky
opposed Piaget; cognitive development occurs by inner speech
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
described the stages of death/dying and the grief response
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Mary Ainsworth
attachment patterns: secure, insecure, avoidant, disorganized
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Diana Baumrind
3 parenting styles: authortarian, authroitative, permissive
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anecdotal evidence
persona stories re: specific incidents, experiences
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extraneous variables
variables other than the IV that are likely to influence the Dv
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response set
tendency to respond to a question in a way unrelated to the content of the questions
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social desirability bias
tendency to give socially desirable answers to questions about oneself
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statistical significance
when the probability of the observed findings being due only to chance is very low
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type I error
concluding a relationship exists when really there is none
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type 2 error
concluding there is NO relationship when in fact there is
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Null hypothesis
the treatment will have NO eFFECT in an experiment
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alternative hypothesis
the treatment DID have an effect in the experiment
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channel
the medium through which a message is sent
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ethnocentrism
the tendency to view one's own group as superior to others
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lowball technique
getting someone to commit to an attractive proposition before revealing the hidden costs
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Hawthorne effect
behaving different because you know you are being observed
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rosenthal effect
when students perform UP to their expectation
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inclusive fitness
sum of an individuals own reproductive success plus the effect it is has on the reproductive success of relatives
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parental investment
what each sex invests- time ernegy, survival risks- to produce and nurture offspring
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perceptual asymmetries
left/right imbalances between hemispheres in the speed of visual/auditory processing
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polyandry
each female seeks to mate with multiple males, while males mate with only one female
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lateral hypothalamus
the "on" switch for hunger/weight; lesion decreases hunger
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ventromedial hypothalamus
"off" switch; VM lesion would cause obesity
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apraxia
damage to association area responsible for organizing movements
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agnosia
damage to association area responsible for processing sensory input
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alexia
damage to association area responsible for reading
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agraphia
damage to association area responsible for writing
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animism
the belief that all things are living
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centration
tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem, neglecting other important aspects
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dishabituation
when a new stimulus increases the strength of a habituated response
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meta-analysis
combining the stATISTICAL RESULTS OF MANY STUDIES; yields an estimate of a variables size/constancy
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cephalocaudal trend
the head to foot direction of motor development
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proximodistal trend
the center to outward direction of motor development
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additive color mixing
forming colors by superimposing lights
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basilar membrane
structure along the inside of the cochlea that holds the hair cells (auditory receptors)
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comparitors
people, objects, events, standards used as a baseline when comparing/making judgements
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door in the face
making a large request, likely to be turned down, to increase the chances to get a smaller request later on
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feature analysis
process of detecting specific elements in visual input and assembling them into a more complex form
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feature detectors
neurons that respond selectively to very specific features of a complex stimuli
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fechners law
larger and larger increases in stimulus intensity are required to produce perceptible increments in the degree of sensation
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fovea
tiny spot in the center of the retina with only cones
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lateral antagonism
when neural activity in a cell opposes activity in the surrounding cells
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motion parallax
depth cue involving objects at different distances moving across the retina at different rates
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optic chiasm
the point at which the optic nerves cross over and project to the opposite half of the brain
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receptive field of a visual cell
the retinal area that, when stimulated, affects the firing of that cell
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visual agnosia
an inability to recognize objects
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volley principle
theory groups of auditory nerve fibers fire neural impulses in rapid succession
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stereopsis
using both eyes to see things in 3D
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law of pragnanz
we see objects in their simplest forms
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BF skinner
behaviorist, started science of operant conditioning

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