Famous Psychologists to Know

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Famous Psychologists to Know

• Advanced Placement Psychology- Ms Fenton

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• Founder of Behaviorism
• Little Albert study
• UCS UCR
• NS CS
• CR
• Classical Conditioning of fear
• Discrimination Generalization of fears

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John Watson

• Founder of Behaviorism
• Little Albert study
• UCS UCR
• NS CS
• CR
• Classical Conditioning of fear
• Discrimination Generalization of fears

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• Bobo Doll
• Observational / Social Learning
• Modeling
• Social-Cognitive Perspective of personality
• Reciprocal Determinism
• Self-efficacy

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Albert Bandura

• Bobo Doll
• Observational / Social Learning
• Modeling
• Social-Cognitive Perspective of personality
• Reciprocal Determinism
• Self-efficacy

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• Cognitive Therapist
• Rational Emotive Therapy (RET and REBT)
• Alter clients irrational thinking to reduce
  maladaptive behavior emotions
• ABC
• Activating Event
• Beliefs About Event
• Consequences

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Albert Ellis

• Cognitive Therapist
• Rational Emotive Therapy (RET and REBT)
• Alter clients irrational thinking to reduce
  maladaptive behavior emotions
• ABC
• Activating Event
• Beliefs About Event
• Consequences

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• Stanford Prison Study
• Social roles and behavior
• Power of the Situation
• New research - altruism

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Phillip Zimbardo

• Stanford Prison Study
• Social roles and behavior
• Power of the Situation
• New research - altruism

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• Humanist
• Hierarchy of Needs
• Lower level needs dominate higher level needs
• Goal - be self-actualized

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Abraham Maslow

• Humanist
• Hierarchy of Needs
• Lower level needs dominate higher level needs
• Goal - be self-actualized

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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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

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• Classical conditioning
• UCS elicits a UCR
• Dogs
• Salivation to meat powder tuning fork
• UCS, UCR, CS, CR
• Acquisition, Extinction, Generalization,
  Discrimination,

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Ivan Pavlov

• Classical conditioning
• UCS elicits a UCR
• Dogs
• Salivation to meat powder tuning fork
• UCS, UCR, CS, CR
• Acquisition, Extinction, Generalization,
  Discrimination,

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• 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)

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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)

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Piaget v. Vygotsky on Cognitive Development
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• Moral Development
• Preconventional morality
• Conventional morality
• Post-conventional morality

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Lawrence Kohlberg

• Moral Development
• Preconventional morality
• Conventional morality
• Post-conventional morality

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• Well known Depression Inventory
• Challenge Irrational Beliefs
• Negative Cognitive Triad

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Aaron Beck

• Well known Depression Inventory
• Challenge Irrational Beliefs
• Negative Cognitive Triad

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• Conformity
• Under certain conditions, people will agree with
  the groups (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

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Solomon Asch

• Conformity
• Under certain conditions, people will agree with
  the groups (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

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• Sociocultural theory
• Scaffolding
• Zone of proximal development
• Continuity theory of development
• Acquisition on new knowledge dependent on
  previous knowledge

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Lev Vygotsky

• Sociocultural theory
• Scaffolding
• Zone of proximal development
• Continuity theory of development
• Acquisition on new knowledge dependent on
  previous knowledge

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• Collective unconscious
• Archetypes
• Anima and Animus
• Introversion v Extroversion
• NeoFreudian

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Carl Jung

• Collective unconscious
• Archetypes
• Anima and Animus
• Introversion v Extroversion
• NeoFreudian

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• Obedience to authority
• Shocks
• 65 of teachers went all the way
• PRESSENCE OF SOMEONE ELSE WHO DISOBEYS increases
  
• disobedience
• Know factors that increase obedience

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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

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• Neo-Freudian
• Individual psychology
• Striving for Superiority
• Inferiority complex
• Sibling rivalry
• Birth order

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Alfred Adler

• Neo-Freudian
• Individual psychology
• Striving for Superiority
• Inferiority complex
• Sibling rivalry
• Birth order

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• Early studies in Memory
• did research with himself as sole subject
• Nonsense syllables
• Learning Curve
• Forgetting Curve
• Overlearning
• Spacing Effect

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

• Early studies in Memory
• did research with himself as sole subject
• Nonsense syllables
• Learning Curve
• Forgetting Curve
• Overlearning
• Spacing Effect

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• Confabulation or False Memory
• Challenges eyewitness testimony
• Reconstructive Nature of Memory
• Misinformation Effect

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Elizabeth Loftus

• Confabulation or False Memory
• Challenges eyewitness testimony
• Reconstructive Nature of Memory
• Misinformation Effect

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• g factor general ability
• S factor specific abilities
• Mental talents highly correlated
• Early advocate of More than one type of
  Intelligence

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Charles Spearman

• g factor general ability
• S factor specific abilities
• Mental talents highly correlated
• Early advocate of More than one type of
  Intelligence

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• Nobel Prize winner in medicine for work with
  split brain patients
• Split patients corpus collosum
• Tried to help patients with epilepsy
• Lateralization of function

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Roger Sperry

• Nobel Prize winner in medicine for work with
  split brain patients
• Split patients corpus collosum
• Tried to help patients with epilepsy
• Lateralization of function

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• Studied under Roger Sperry
• continued research on split brain patients
• Work on lateralization of function
• Interested in how the hemispheres communicate

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Michael Gazzaniga

• Studied under Roger Sperry
• continued research on split brain patients
• Work on lateralization of function
• Interested in how the hemispheres communicate

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• Neo-Freudian
• Basic Anxiety
• Womb Envy
• Healthy Personality combo of
• Moving Toward
• Moving Against
• Moving Away

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Karen Horney (horn-eye)

• Neo-Freudian
• Basic Anxiety
• Womb Envy
• Healthy Personality combo of
• Moving Toward
• Moving Against
• Moving Away

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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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

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• 1st woman awarded PhD
• Significant research in animal behavior

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Margaret Floy Washburn

• 1st woman awarded PhD
• Significant research in animal behavior

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• Activist for care of mentally ill individuals
  living in poverty
• Successfully lobbied state legislature to create
  mental asylums
• Ms. Fentons Favorite Psychologist

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Dorthea Dix

• Activist for care of mentally ill individuals
  living in poverty
• Successfully lobbied state legislature to create
  mental asylums
• Ms. Fentons Favorite Psychologist

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• Cardinal Traits
• Central Traits
• Secondary Traits
• Trait PERSONALITY theorist 4500 traits

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Gordon Allport

• Cardinal Traits
• Central Traits
• Secondary Traits
• Trait PERSONALITY theorist 4500 traits

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• Trait Theorist
• Factor Analysis to reduce of traits
• 16PF or 16 Personal Factor Test
• Fluid v. Crystallized Intelligence

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Raymond Cattell

• Trait Theorist
• Factor Analysis to reduce of traits
• 16PF or 16 Personal Factor Test
• Fluid v. Crystallized Intelligence

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• General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) Bodys
  physical response to all stressors.
• Alarm
• Resistance
• Exhaustion

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Hans Selye

• General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) Bodys
  physical response to all stressors.
• Alarm
• Resistance
• Exhaustion

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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 persons
  research

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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 persons
  research

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• Early researcher in psychophysics
• Studies magnitude of perceived perception
• Stimulus increases in proportion to original
  stimulus
• How perceptual intensity is related to strength

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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

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• American psychologist
• 1st president of APA
• Published 1st American Journal of Psychology
• Research on adolescence and education

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G. Stanley Hall

• American psychologist
• 1st president of APA
• Published 1st American Journal of Psychology
• Research on adolescence and education

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• Psychology should be study of conscious
  experience
• Father of Psychology
• University of Leipzig
• 1st Psychology Lab
• Introspection

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Wilhelm Wundt

• Psychology should be study of conscious
  experience
• Father of Psychology
• University of Leipzig
• 1st Psychology Lab
• Introspection

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• Little Peter
• Conditioned Little Peter to NOT be afraid of
  rabbits.
• First Behavior Therapist
• Counterconditioning

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Mary Cover Jones

• Little Peter
• Conditioned Little Peter to NOT be afraid of
  rabbits.
• First Behavior Therapist
• Counterconditioning

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• Research on cats discovery of feature detectors
  in visual cortex
• Nobel Prize
• Cats in boxes (different types of lines activated
  different feature detectors

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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

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• Systematic Desensitization
• Hierarchy Construction
• Progressive Relaxation
• Worked with those who suffered from Phobias

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Joseph Wolpe

• Systematic Desensitization
• Hierarchy Construction
• Progressive Relaxation
• Worked with those who suffered from Phobias

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• Behaviorist
• Operant Conditioning Reinforcements,
  Punishments, Reinforcement Schedules, etc.
• Token Economy
• Denied existence of the unconscious
• Believed there was no such thing as free will

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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

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• Latent Learning
• Cognitive Maps
• Rat in a maze experiment

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E.C. Tolman

• Latent Learning
• Cognitive Maps
• Rat in a maze experiment

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• Insight Learning
• Right Temporal Lobe
• Observed Chimps solve problems

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Wolfgang Köhler

• Insight Learning
• Right Temporal Lobe
• Observed Chimps solve problems

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• Imprinting attachment in birds to first moving
  object they say
• Attachment during a critical period

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Konrad Lorenz

• Imprinting attachment in birds to first moving
  object they say
• Attachment during a critical period

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• Language Acquisition Device
• Universal Grammar
• Nature (Nativist)
• Theory
• Cognitive Perspective

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Noam Chomsky

• Language Acquisition Device
• Universal Grammar
• Nature (Nativist)
• Theory
• Cognitive Perspective

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• Neo-Freudian
• Personality develops across lifespan
• Crisis at each stage

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Erik Erikson

• Neo-Freudian
• Personality develops across lifespan
• Crisis at each stage

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• Worked with team of researchers collected over
  18,000 interviews with men women about sex
• Increased public awareness of human sexuality

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Alfred Kinsey

• Worked with team of researchers collected over
  18,000 interviews with men women about sex
• Increased public awareness of human sexuality

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• Discovered area in left frontal lobe for
  production of language
• Controls mouth movements for speech
• _____________ or Expressive Aphasia

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Paul Broca

• Discovered area (Brocas Area) in left frontal
  lobe for production of language
• Controls mouth movements for speech
• Brocas Aphasia or Expressive Aphasia

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• Instrumental Learning
• Behaviorist
• Puzzle Boxes (Cats)
• Law of Exercise
• Law of Effect

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Edward Thorndike

• Instrumental Learning
• Behaviorist
• Puzzle Boxes (Cats)
• Law of Exercise
• Law of Effect

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• ___________ Adult Intelligence Test for Adults
  (WAIS)
• Added performance section in addition to verbal
  test
• (S-B test verbal only)

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David Weschler

• ___________ Adult Intelligence Test for Adults
  (WAIS)
• Added performance section in addition to verbal
  test
• (S-B test verbal only)

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• ______________ 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

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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

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• 2 factor theory of intelligence
• g factor (general Intelligence)
• s factor (specific mental abilities)
• g factor more important

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Charles Spearman

• 2 factor theory of intelligence
• g factor (general Intelligence)
• s factor (specific mental abilities)
• g factor more important

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• Theory of multiple intelligences
• 8 Intelligences (logical mathematical, verbal
  linguistic, spatial, kinesthetic, etc.)
• TIP This person Ate (8) MULTIPLE types of
  vegetables (intelligences)

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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)

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• 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

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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

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• Triarchic theory of Love/Attraction
• Passion
• Intimacy
• Commitment
• Triarchic theory of intelligence
• Practical intelligence
• Analytical intelligence
• Creative intelligence
• TIP Think PIC PAC

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Robert Sternberg

• Triarchic theory of Love/Attraction
• Passion
• Intimacy
• Commitment
• Triarchic theory of intelligence
• Practical intelligence
• Analytical intelligence
• Creative intelligence
• TIP Think PIC PAC

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• 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

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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

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• Rhesus monkeys
• Attachment is ? to food
• Cloth mother v. wire mother
• Contact comfort love critical to attachment

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Harry Harlow

• Rhesus monkeys
• Attachment is ? to food
• Cloth mother v. wire mother
• Contact comfort love critical to attachment

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• Moral reasoning in women girls.
• Nurturing caring part of moral reasoning in
  girls.
• Critic of Kohlbergs Morality Stages gender
  bias against females.

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Carol Gilligan

• Moral reasoning in women girls.
• Nurturing caring part of moral reasoning in
  girls.
• Critic of Kohlbergs Morality Stages gender
  bias against females.

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• Attachment Studies
• Strange Situation Experiment
• Secure Attachment
• Insecure Attachment
• - Insecure Anxious-Ambivalent
• - Insecure Anxious-Avoidant

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Mary Ainsworth

• Attachment Studies
• Strange Situation Experiment
• Secure Attachment
• Insecure Attachment
• - Insecure Anxious-Ambivalent
• - Insecure Anxious-Avoidant

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• Tested Depth Perception in children
• Visual Cliff Apparatus

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Gibson and Walk

• Tested Depth Perception in children
• Visual Cliff Apparatus

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• 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

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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

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• 4 Parenting Styles
• Authoritative
• Authoritarian like a barbarian!
• Permissive (Neglectful or Indulgent)

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Diana Baumrind

• 4 Parenting Styles
• Authoritative
• Authoritarian like a barbarian!
• Permissive (Neglectful or Indulgant)

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• 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

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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

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• Created well known __________ Projective test
  (Ink blots)

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Herman Rorschach

• Created well known __________ Projective test
  (Ink blots)

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• Research on terminally ill elderly
• DABDA Stages of Death Dying
• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance
• Much criticism of these
• stages
• Key researcher gerontology

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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

• Research on terminally ill elderly
• DABDA Stages of Death Dying
• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance
• Much criticism of these
• stages
• Key researcher gerontology

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• Learned Helplessness (Dog Experiment)
• Learned Optimism
• Positive Psychology

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Martin Seligman

• Learned Helplessness (Dog Experiment)
• Learned Optimism
• Positive Psychology

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• Discovered area (___________) responsible for
  comprehension of language
• Left Temporal Lobe
• Damage leads to Receptive (_________)Aphasia

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Carl Wernicke

• Discovered area (___________) responsible for
  comprehension of language
• Left Temporal Lobe
• Damage leads to Receptive (_________)Aphasia

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• Universal Emotions based on facial expressions
• Facial expressions of emotion consistent across
  cultures
• Lie Detection MicroExpressions
• Display Rules

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Paul Ekman

• Universal Emotions based on facial expressions
• Facial expressions of emotion consistent across
  cultures
• Lie Detection MicroExpressions
• Display Rules

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• 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

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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

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• 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)

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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)

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• 5 Factor Model of Personality Traits
  (Ocean/Canoe)
• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism

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Costa and McCrae

• 5 Factor Model of Personality Traits
  (Ocean/Canoe)
• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism

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• Magic Number 7
• Plus or Minus 2 is amount that STM holds
• Chunking increases amount in STM by grouping
  items together

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George Miller

• Magic Number 7
• Plus or Minus 2 is amount that STM holds
• Chunking increases amount in STM by grouping
  items together

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• Founder of Structuralism
• Student of Wundt
• Emphasized elements of consciousness

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Edward Titchener

• Founder of Structuralism
• Student of Wundt
• Emphasized elements of consciousness

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• Established Trichromatic theory of light
• Three types of photoreceptors
• Green/Blue/Red

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Young and Helmholtz

• Established Trichromatic theory of light
• Three types of photoreceptors
• Green/Blue/Red

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• Early attempts to measure intelligence
• Evolutionary Approach - Cousin of Darwin
• Believed Intelligence inherited
• Founded Psychometrics
• Devised method of classifying
• Finger prints

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Sir Francis Galton

• Early attempts to measure intelligence
• Evolutionary Approach - Cousin of Darwin
• Believed Intelligence inherited
• Founded Psychometrics
• Devised method of classifying
• Finger prints

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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

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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

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Biological Trait Theory 3 dimensions describe
personality Neuroticism Extraversion Psychoticism

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Hans Eysenck
Biological Trait Theory 3 dimensions describe
personality Neuroticism Extraversion Psychoticism