| What is "trephination"? | stone age tradition, cut holes |
| Pavlov | Made the dog salivate by ringing a bell every time there was food, and then took the food away and only rang the bell, making the dog hungry. Behavioral/learning, conditioning associations |
| Psychiatrist | Administers drugs, works more with medical/biological, and has an M.D. |
| Humanism perspective | People are good
When given free will, people will choose good
We all just want to belong
OPPOSITE of freud, (psychoanalytic) |
| Evolutionary perspective | (Darwin) Natural selection, survival of the fittest |
| What was Descartes main phrase? | "I think therefore I am" |
| What was the main idea of John Locke? | the tabula rasa, or blank slate of mind. (You're born with a completely blank mind, then imprinted with experiences) |
| Empiricism | Knowledge only comes from experience |
| Psychologists (as opposed to psychiatrist) | counsels, does not administer drugs, has a P.h.D |
| biosychosocial | integrated perspective, incorporates biological, psychological, social cultural lvls of analysis |
| Skinner | Rewards and reinforcements, behavioral/learning |
| Zimbardo | Social-cultural, did the experiment where he put college students in a fake prison |
| Rationality and Irrationality | Why people choose to ignore facts and do irrational things |
| What did Plato contribute to? | theory, mind (thought), and behavior. Relationships, too. |
| Social-Cultural Perspective | Influence of people and groups (example: religion)
The behavior and thinking varying from situations and cultures |
| Who was the important person in the psychoanalytic perspective? | Sigmund Freud
-thought people, given free will, will make selfish and evil choices |
| What did Max Wertheimer believe? | the whole experience is more important than just the sum of the parts of experience. CONTEXT is important |
| Watson | Took a kid named little albert, placed him with a bunny and would scare him (with a gong) every time the bunny was around. Lil albert then became terrified of rabbits, even when the gong was no longer used. Behavioral/learning, conditioning associations |
| functionalism | focused on HOW mental and behavioral processes work, how they enable organisms to adapt, survive,& flourish
imp. person: william james |
| Eclectic | Little bit of every perspective, used today |
| Bandura | kids sit in a room & watch an adult play with a bobo doll, 1 group watched the adult be mean&the others watched the adult be nice,& the groups acted however they saw the adult act with the bobo doll. Behavioral/learning, observational learning, aggression |
| What is the psychoanalytic perspective? | -Early experience, childhood trauma
-unconscious mind
-conflicts
-repressed memories |
| Applied research | Knowledge applied to solve real world problems
-industrial/organizational (used to market) |
| What is "trephination"? | stone age tradition, would make holes in head to release evil spirits (schizophrenia cure) |
| Stability and Change | The debate over whether peoples personalities change over time or if they keep their personality their entire life |
| Milgram | Allowed teachers and such to administer "shock' to people for wrong answers |
| Basic research | Increase knowledge base,
-(bio link between brain and behavior)
-Development
-Abilities from birth to death |
| Cognitive perspective | Memory
Perception
Thinking
Language
(process, contain, absorb and come back to information)
IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Piaget, Loftus |
| Structuralism | -introspection
-used to explore elemental structure of the mind mentally.
important person: wilhelm wundt |
| Important people in Biological perspective? | Gazzanaga (split brain), Darwin |
| Nature Vs. Nurture | The debate over whether you are who you are because of your environment, or because of your set genes |
| What is the behavioral/learning perspective? | -Conditioning associations
-observational Learning
-aggression
-rewards/reinforcements |
| Important people in behavioral/learning? | PAVLOV
WATSON
**BANDURA**
skinner |
| Biological perspective | Genes
Brain
Nervous system
Neurons
Neurotransmitters |
