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Advanced Placement Psychology- Ms Fenton
• Founder of Behaviorism
• Little Albert study• UCS UCR
• NS CS
• CR
• Classical Conditioning of fear
• Discrimination & Generalization of fears
John Watson• Founder of
Behaviorism
• Little Albert study• UCS UCR
• NS CS
• CR
• Classical Conditioning of fear
• Discrimination & Generalization of fears
• Bobo Doll
• Observational / Social Learning
• Modeling
• Social-Cognitive Perspective of personality
• Reciprocal Determinism
• Self-efficacy
Albert Bandura
• Bobo Doll
• Observational / Social Learning
• Modeling
• Social-Cognitive Perspective of personality
• Reciprocal Determinism
• Self-efficacy
• Cognitive Therapist
• Rational Emotive Therapy (RET and REBT)
• Alter client’s irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior & emotions
• ABCActivating EventBeliefs About EventConsequences
Albert Ellis • Cognitive Therapist
• Rational Emotive Therapy (RET and REBT)
• Alter client’s irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior & emotions
• ABCActivating EventBeliefs About EventConsequences
• Stanford Prison Study
• Social roles and behavior
• Power of the Situation
• “New research - altruism
Phillip Zimbardo
• Stanford Prison Study
• Social roles and behavior
• Power of the Situation
• “New research - altruism
• Humanist
• Hierarchy of Needs
• Lower level needs dominate higher level needs
• Goal - be self-actualized
• Humanist
• Hierarchy of Needs
• Lower level needs dominate higher level needs
• Goal - be self-actualized
Abraham Maslow
• Humanist
• Focus on healthy individuals
• Personal growth
• Self-concept
• Congruence vs. Incongruent self-concept
• Non directive therapy
• A.G.E.
Acceptance – unconditional positive regard
Genuineness
Empathy -
• Client or Person Centered Therapy
• Active listening
Carl Rogers
• Humanist
• Focus on healthy individuals
• Personal growth
• Self-concept
• Congruence vs. Incongruent self-concept
• Non directive therapy
• A.G.E.
Acceptance – unconditional positive regard
Genuineness
Empathy -
• Client or Person Centered Therapy
• Active listening
• Cognitive Dissonance: inconsistency among beliefs or behaviors causes tension.
• Usually leads people to change beliefs to fit their actual behavior
• Experiment – knob turning $1 vs. $20
Leon Festinger
• Cognitive Dissonance: inconsistency among beliefs or behaviors causes tension.
• Usually leads people to change beliefs to fit their actual behavior
• Experiment – knob turning $1 vs. $20
• Psychoanalysis• 3 Part Personality:Id, Ego, Superego • Psychosexual Stages of Development (Only Awesome Patriots Learn Guitar)• Fixations• Defense Mechanisms• Manifest & Latent Content• Free Association • Dream Analysis• Illness – caused by unresolved unconscious
conflicts often from childhood
Sigmund Freud
• Psychoanalysis• 3 Part Personality:Id, Ego, Superego • Psychosexual Stages of Development (Only Awesome Patriots Learn Guitar)• Fixations• Defense Mechanisms• Manifest & Latent Content• Free Association • Dream Analysis• Illness – caused by unresolved unconscious
conflicts often from childhood
• Classical conditioning
• UCS elicits a UCR Dogs
• Salivation to meat powder & tuning fork
• UCS, UCR, CS, CR
• Acquisition, Extinction, Generalization, Discrimination,
Ivan Pavlov
• Classical conditioning
• UCS elicits a UCR Dogs
• Salivation to meat powder & tuning fork
• UCS, UCR, CS, CR
• Acquisition, Extinction, Generalization, Discrimination,
• Schema (Assimilation v. Accommodation)• Discontinuity (Stages) Cognitive Development• Sensorimotor (no object permanence)• Preoperational (CANT conserve, egocentric, pre-
logical, animism)• Concrete Operational
(can conserve)• Formal Operational (abstract thought)
Jean Piaget• Schema (Assimilation v. Accommodation)• Discontinuity (Stages) Cognitive Development• Sensorimotor (no object permanence)• Preoperational (CANT conserve), egocentric, pre-
logical, animism)• Concrete Operational
(can conserve)• Formal Operational (abstract thought)
Piaget v. Vygotsky on Cognitive Development
Moral Development
• Preconventional morality
• Conventional morality
• Post-conventional morality
Lawrence Kohlberg
Moral Development
• Preconventional morality
• Conventional morality
• Post-conventional morality
• Well known Depression Inventory
• Challenge Irrational Beliefs
• Negative Cognitive Triad
Aaron Beck• Well known
Depression Inventory
• Challenge Irrational Beliefs
• Negative Cognitive Triad
Conformity Under certain conditions,
people will agree with the group’s (conform) judgment, even when it is clearly incorrect.
70% of participants in experimental group went along with the incorrect reponse at some point
Line study
Solomon Asch Conformity Under certain conditions,
people will agree with the group’s (conform) judgment, even when it is clearly incorrect.
70% of participants in experimental group went along with the incorrect reponse at some point
Line study
Sociocultural theory Scaffolding Zone of proximal
development Continuity theory of
development Acquisition on new
knowledge dependent on previous knowledge
Sociocultural theory Scaffolding Zone of proximal
development Continuity theory of
development Acquisition on new
knowledge dependent on previous knowledge
Lev Vygotsky
• Collective unconscious
• Archetypes
• Anima and Animus
• Introversion v Extroversion
• NeoFreudian
Carl Jung
• Collective unconscious
• Archetypes
• Anima and Animus
• Introversion v Extroversion
• NeoFreudian
• Obedience to authority
• Shocks
• 65% of teachers went all the way
• PRESSENCE OF SOMEONE ELSE WHO DISOBEYS increases
disobedience
• Know factors that increase obedience:
Stanley Milgram
• Obedience to authority
• Shocks
• 65% of teachers went all the way
• PRESSENCE OF SOMEONE ELSE WHO DISOBEYS increases
disobedience
• Know factors that increase obedience:
• Neo-Freudian
• Individual psychology
• Striving for Superiority
• Inferiority complex
• Sibling rivalry
• Birth order
Alfred Adler
• Neo-Freudian
• Individual psychology
• Striving for Superiority
• Inferiority complex
• Sibling rivalry
• Birth order
• Early studies in Memory
• did research with himself as sole subject
• Nonsense syllables
• Learning Curve
• Forgetting Curve
• Overlearning
• Spacing Effect
Hermann Ebbinghaus
• Early studies in Memory
• did research with himself as sole subject
• Nonsense syllables
• Learning Curve
• Forgetting Curve
• Overlearning
• Spacing Effect
• Confabulation or False Memory
• Challenges eyewitness testimony
• Reconstructive Nature of Memory
• Misinformation Effect
Elizabeth Loftus• Confabulation or
False Memory
• Challenges eyewitness testimony
• Reconstructive Nature of Memory
• Misinformation Effect
• g factor= general ability
• S factor = specific abilities
• Mental talents highly correlated
• Early advocate of “More than one type of Intelligence”
Charles Spearman
• g factor= general ability
• S factor = specific abilities
• Mental talents highly correlated
• Early advocate of “More than one type of Intelligence”
Nobel Prize winner in medicine for work with split brain patients
Split patient’s corpus collosum
Tried to help patients with epilepsy
Lateralization of function
Roger Sperry
Nobel Prize winner in medicine for work with split brain patients
Split patient’s corpus collosum
Tried to help patients with epilepsy
Lateralization of function
Studied under Roger Sperry
continued research on split brain patients
Work on lateralization of function
Interested in how the hemispheres communicate
Michael Gazzaniga
Studied under Roger Sperry
continued research on split brain patients
Work on lateralization of function
Interested in how the hemispheres communicate
• Neo-Freudian
• Basic Anxiety
• Womb Envy Healthy
Personality = combo of Moving Toward Moving Against Moving Away
Karen Horney (horn-eye)
• Neo-Freudian
• Basic Anxiety
• Womb Envy Healthy
Personality = combo of Moving Toward Moving Against Moving Away
• Revised Simon Binet IQ test for American children
• Revision known as the STANFORD-BINET
• longitudinal study of gifted kids
• Participants in this study known as Termites
Lewis Terman
• Revised Simon Binet IQ test for American children
• Revision known as STANFORD-BINET
• longitudinal study of gifted kids
• Participants in this study known as Termites
• Denied PhD from Harvard due to gender
• Opened an early psychological labs in U.S.
• Paired-associate technique to study memory
• 1st first female president of APA
Mary Whiton Calkins• Denied PhD from
Harvard due to gender
• Opened an early psychological labs in U.S.
• Paired-associate technique to study memory
• 1st first female president of APA
• 1st woman awarded PhD
• Significant research in animal behavior
Margaret Floy Washburn
• 1st woman awarded PhD
• Significant research in animal behavior
• Activist for care of mentally ill individuals living in poverty
• Successfully lobbied state legislature to create mental asylums
• Ms. Fenton’s Favorite Psychologist
Dorthea Dix
• Activist for care of mentally ill individuals living in poverty
• Successfully lobbied state legislature to create mental asylums
• Ms. Fenton’s Favorite Psychologist
• Cardinal Traits
• Central Traits
• Secondary Traits
Trait PERSONALITY theorist – 4500 traits
Gordon Allport
• Cardinal Traits
• Central Traits
• Secondary Traits
Trait PERSONALITY theorist – 4500 traits
• Trait Theorist• Factor Analysis to
reduce # of traits
• 16PF or 16 Personal Factor Test
• Fluid v. Crystallized Intelligence
Raymond Cattell
• Trait Theorist• Factor Analysis to
reduce # of traits
• 16PF or 16 Personal Factor Test
• Fluid v. Crystallized Intelligence
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS): Body’s physical response to all stressors.
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Hans Selye General Adaptation
Syndrome (GAS): Body’s physical response to all stressors.
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Developed contingency model of learning and added a cognitive component to classical conditioning based on prediction and expectations.
Stimuli that are more consistently paired are more predictable and therefore generate stronger responses.
Cognitive expectations guide learning.
Robert Rescorla Developed contingency model
of learning and added a cognitive component to classical conditioning based on prediction and expectations.
Stimuli that are more consistently paired are more predictable and therefore generate stronger responses.
Cognitive expectations guide learning.
Formula for JND minimum change needed to create JND is in constant proportion of original Stimulus.Bigger objects have larger JND (greater to be noticed)Law is created by Fechner
based on this person’s research
Ernst Weber
Formula for JND minimum change needed to create JND is in constant proportion of original Stimulus.Bigger objects have larger JND (greater to be noticed)Law is created by Fechner
based on this person’s research
Early researcher in psychophysics Studies magnitude of perceived
perception Stimulus increases in proportion to original
stimulus How perceptual intensity is related to
strength
Gustav Fechner
Early researcher in psychophysics Studies magnitude of perceived
perception Stimulus increases in proportion to original
stimulus How perceptual intensity is related to
strength
• American psychologist
• 1st president of APA
• Published 1st American Journal of Psychology
• Research on adolescence and education
G. Stanley Hall
• American psychologist
• 1st president of APA
• Published 1st American Journal of Psychology
• Research on adolescence and education
• Psychology should be study of conscious experience
• Father of Psychology
• University of Leipzig
• 1st Psychology Lab
• Introspection
Wilhelm Wundt
• Psychology should be study of conscious experience
• Father of Psychology
• University of Leipzig
• 1st Psychology Lab
• Introspection
• Little Peter
• Conditioned Little Peter to NOT be afraid of rabbits.
• First Behavior Therapist
• Counterconditioning
Mary Cover Jones
• Little Peter
• Conditioned Little Peter to NOT be afraid of rabbits.
• First Behavior Therapist
• Counterconditioning
Research on cats – discovery of feature detectors in visual cortex
Nobel Prize Cats in boxes (different
types of lines activated different feature detectors
Torsten Wiesel & David Hubel
Research on cats – discovery of feature detectors in visual cortex
Nobel Prize Cats in boxes (different
types of lines activated different feature detectors
• Systematic Desensitization
• Hierarchy Construction
• Progressive Relaxation
• Worked with those who suffered from Phobias
Joseph Wolpe
• Systematic Desensitization
• Hierarchy Construction
• Progressive Relaxation
• Worked with those who suffered from Phobias
• Behaviorist• Operant Conditioning:
Reinforcements, Punishments, Reinforcement Schedules, etc.
• Token Economy• Denied existence of the
unconscious• Believed there was no such
thing as free will
B. F. Skinner
• Behaviorist• Operant Conditioning:
Reinforcements, Punishments, Reinforcement Schedules, etc.
• Token Economy• Denied existence of the
unconscious• Believed there was no such
thing as free will
• Latent Learning
• Cognitive Maps
• Rat in a maze experiment
E.C. Tolman
• Latent Learning
• Cognitive Maps
• Rat in a maze experiment
• Insight Learning
• Right Temporal Lobe
• Observed Chimps solve problems
Wolfgang Köhler
• Insight Learning
• Right Temporal Lobe
• Observed Chimps solve problems
• Imprinting: attachment in birds to first moving object they say
• Attachment during a critical period
Konrad Lorenz
• Imprinting: attachment in birds to first moving object they say
• Attachment during a critical period
• Language Acquisition Device
• Universal Grammar
• Nature (Nativist) Theory
• Cognitive Perspective
Noam Chomsky
• Language Acquisition Device
• Universal Grammar
• Nature (Nativist) Theory
• Cognitive Perspective
•Neo-Freudian•Personality develops across lifespan •Crisis at each stage
Erik Erikson
•Neo-Freudian•Personality develops across lifespan •Crisis at each stage
Worked with team of researchers collected over 18,000 interviews with men & women about sex
Increased public awareness of human sexuality
Worked with team of researchers collected over 18,000 interviews with men & women about sex
Increased public awareness of human sexuality
Alfred Kinsey
• Discovered area in left frontal lobe for production of language
• Controls mouth movements for speech
• _____________ or Expressive Aphasia
Paul Broca
• Discovered area (Broca’s Area) in left frontal lobe for production of language
• Controls mouth movements for speech
• Broca’s Aphasia or Expressive Aphasia
• Instrumental Learning• Behaviorist• Puzzle Boxes (Cats)• Law of Exercise• Law of Effect
Edward Thorndike
• Instrumental Learning• Behaviorist• Puzzle Boxes (Cats)• Law of Exercise• Law of Effect
• ___________ Adult Intelligence Test for Adults (WAIS)
• Added performance section in addition to verbal test
• (S-B test verbal only)
David Weschler
• ___________ Adult Intelligence Test for Adults (WAIS)
• Added performance section in addition to verbal test
• (S-B test verbal only)
______________ Emotion Theory• We feel emotions & have
physiological changes (e.g., muscle tension, sweating, etc.) at the same time because of info from thalamus
• Event = Simultaneous arousal and emotion
Walter Cannon & Philip Bard
Cannon –Bard Emotion Theory• We feel emotions & have
physiological changes (e.g., muscle tension, sweating, etc.) at the same time because of info from thalamus
• Event = Simultaneous arousal and emotion
2 factor theory of intelligence “g factor” (general Intelligence) &“s factor” (specific mental abilities)
g factor more important
Charles Spearman
2 factor theory of intelligence “g factor” (general Intelligence) &“s factor” (specific mental abilities)
g factor more important
• Theory of multiple intelligences
• 8 Intelligences (logical mathematical, verbal linguistic, spatial, kinesthetic, etc.)
TIP: This person Ate (8) MULTIPLE types of vegetables (intelligences)
Howard Gardner
• Theory of multiple intelligences
• 8 Intelligences (logical mathematical, verbal linguistic, spatial, kinesthetic, etc.)
TIP: This person Ate (8) MULTIPLE types of vegetables (intelligences)
• Functionalism
• 1st psychology text book Principles of Psychology (1890)
• Early theory of emotion – emotion follows physiological response – the brain automatically determines the specific emotion based on a particular pattern of autonomic arousal
• “I tremble therefore I am afraid”
Streams of Consciousness
William James• Functionalism
• 1st psychology text book Principles of Psychology (1890)
• Early theory of emotion – emotion follows physiological response – the brain automatically determines the specific emotion based on a particular pattern of autonomic arousal
• “I tremble therefore I am afraid”
Streams of Consciousness
Triarchic theory of Love/Attraction
Passion
Intimacy
Commitment
Triarchic theory of intelligencePractical intelligence
Analytical intelligence
Creative intelligence
TIP: Think PIC PAC
Robert SternbergTriarchic theory of Love/Attraction
Passion
Intimacy
Commitment
Triarchic theory of intelligencePractical intelligence
Analytical intelligence
Creative intelligence
TIP: Think PIC PAC
• Created 1st IQ test
• Mental Age: Measure of intelligence- identifying chronological age that most typically corresponds to given level of performance
• Created exam for French school children
Alfred Binet• Created 1st IQ test
• Mental Age: Measure of intelligence- identifying chronological age that most typically corresponds to given level of performance
• Created exam for French school children
• Rhesus monkeys
• Attachment is ≠ to food
• Cloth mother v. wire mother
• Contact comfort & love critical to attachment
Harry Harlow
• Rhesus monkeys
• Attachment is ≠ to food
• Cloth mother v. wire mother
• Contact comfort & love critical to attachment
• Moral reasoning in women & girls.
• Nurturing & caring part of moral reasoning in girls.
• Critic of Kohlberg’s Morality Stages – gender bias against females.
Carol Gilligan
• Moral reasoning in women & girls.
• Nurturing & caring part of moral reasoning in girls.
• Critic of Kohlberg’s Morality Stages – gender bias against females.
• Attachment Studies
• Strange Situation Experiment
• Secure Attachment
• Insecure Attachment- Insecure Anxious-Ambivalent- Insecure Anxious-Avoidant
Mary Ainsworth
• Attachment Studies
• Strange Situation Experiment
• Secure Attachment
• Insecure Attachment- Insecure Anxious-Ambivalent- Insecure Anxious-Avoidant
• Tested Depth Perception in children
• Visual Cliff Apparatus
Gibson and Walk• Tested Depth Perception in children
• Visual Cliff Apparatus
• 19th century railroad worker – damage severed connections between limbic system and frontal lobes –
• Case study gave psychologists insight into function of frontal lobes
• Damage show importance of Frontal Lobe
Phineas Gage
• 19th century railroad worker – damage severed connections between limbic system and frontal lobes –
• Case study gave psychologists insight into function of frontal lobes
• Damage show importance of Frontal Lobe
4 Parenting StylesAuthoritativeAuthoritarian “like a barbarian!”Permissive (Neglectful or Indulgent)
Diana Baumrind
4 Parenting StylesAuthoritativeAuthoritarian “like a barbarian!”Permissive (Neglectful or Indulgant)
Hypnosis is SEPARATE state of divided consciousness or
dissociative state Hypnotic state- vivid form of
everyday mind splits. 1 part of mind "split offs" &
works independently from rest Studied hypnosis for pain relief Hidden Observer
Ernest Hilgard Hypnosis is SEPARATE state of divided consciousness or
dissociative state Hypnotic state- vivid form of
everyday mind splits. 1 part of mind "split offs" &
works independently from rest Studied hypnosis for pain relief Hidden Observer
• Created well known __________ Projective test (Ink blots)
Herman Rorschach
• Created well known __________ Projective test (Ink blots)
• Research on terminally ill elderly• DABDA – Stages of Death &
Dying Denial Anger Bargaining Depression AcceptanceMuch criticism of these stagesKey researcher – gerontology
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Research on terminally ill elderly• DABDA – Stages of Death &
Dying Denial Anger Bargaining Depression AcceptanceMuch criticism of these stagesKey researcher – gerontology
•Learned Helplessness (Dog Experiment)
•Learned Optimism
•Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman
• Learned Helplessness (Dog Experiment)
• Learned Optimism
• Positive Psychology
• Discovered area (___________) responsible for comprehension of language
• Left Temporal Lobe
• Damage leads to Receptive (_________)Aphasia
Carl Wernicke• Discovered area
(___________) responsible for comprehension of language
• Left Temporal Lobe
• Damage leads to Receptive (_________)Aphasia
• Universal Emotions – based on facial expressions
• Facial expressions of emotion consistent across cultures
• Lie Detection –MicroExpressions
• Display Rules
Paul Ekman
• Universal Emotions – based on facial expressions
• Facial expressions of emotion consistent across cultures
• Lie Detection –MicroExpressions
• Display Rules
• Study of effectiveness of psychiatric diagnosis
• Use of pseudo patients
• Impact – showed negative impact of labels
• Faked symptoms of schizophrenia to be admitted into mental health care facilities
David Rosenhan
• Study of effectiveness of psychiatric diagnosis
• Use of pseudo patients
• Impact – showed negative impact of labels
• Faked symptoms of schizophrenia to be admitted into mental health care facilities
• 2 Factor Emotion Theory
• Human emotions 2 factors: physical arousal & cognitive label
• Individual evaluates environment to determine emotion they are experiencing
• Experiment with adrenaline or placebo injections (participants told it was a vitamin)
Stanley Schachter & Singer
• 2 Factor Emotion Theory
• Human emotions 2 factors: physical arousal & cognitive label
• Individual evaluates environment to determine emotion they are experiencing
• Experiment with adrenaline or placebo injections (participants told it was a vitamin)
5 Factor Model of Personality Traits (Ocean/Canoe)
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism
Costa and McCrae
5 Factor Model of Personality Traits (Ocean/Canoe)
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism
Magic Number 7 Plus or Minus 2 is
amount that STM holds
Chunking – increases amount in STM by grouping items together
George Miller
Magic Number 7 Plus or Minus 2 is
amount that STM holds
Chunking – increases amount in STM by grouping items together
Founder of Structuralism Student of Wundt Emphasized elements of consciousness
Edward Titchener
Founder of Structuralism Student of Wundt Emphasized elements of consciousness
Established Trichromatic theory of light
Three types of photoreceptors
Green/Blue/Red
Young and Helmholtz
Established Trichromatic theory of light
Three types of photoreceptors
Green/Blue/Red
Early attempts to measure intelligence Evolutionary Approach - Cousin of Darwin Believed Intelligence inherited Founded Psychometrics Devised method of classifying Finger prints
Sir Francis Galton Early attempts to measure intelligence Evolutionary Approach - Cousin of Darwin Believed Intelligence inherited Founded Psychometrics Devised method of classifying Finger prints
Believed Language influenced thought Linguistic Relativity Theory
Original Theory - Linguistic Determinism Often cited that “Eskimos” have multiple
words to describe snow and can therefore discern small difference in types of snow.
Benjamin Whorf
Believed Language influenced thought Linguistic Relativity Theory
Original Theory - Linguistic Determinism Often cited that “Eskimos” have multiple
words to describe snow and can therefore discern small difference in types of snow.
Relationship between arousal & performance _____ Law
Graphs as upside down U Moderate level arousal best for most tasks Easy tasks need slightly higher levels Difficult tasks slightly lower levels
Yerkes and Dodson Relationship between arousal &
performance _____ Law Graphs as upside down U Moderate level arousal best for most tasks Easy tasks need slightly higher levels Difficult tasks slightly lower levels
Biological Trait Theory3 dimensions describe personalityNeuroticismExtraversionPsychoticism
Hans EysenckBiological Trait Theory3 dimensions describe personalityNeuroticismExtraversionPsychoticism