AP Psychology - People

first psychology laboratory; structuralism

student of Wilhelm Wundt; worked with Wundt to create the first psychology lab

structuralism

functionalism

should have been the first woman to get a PhD in psychology

was actually the first woman to get a PhD in psychology

“tabula rasa”

split brain experiment

feature detectors

Weber’s law

(Young-Helmholtz) trichromatic theory

visual cliff experiment

classical conditioning

behaviorism; classical conditioning; “Little Albert” experiment

operant conditioning; Skinner box

law of effect

taste-aversion

predictability

latent learning

insight learning

learned helplessness

locus of control

modeling; bobo doll experiment

multi-store memory model

humans can store 7 bits of information (give or take 2) in short-term memory

understanding and recall of information

forgetting curve

misinformation effect; source amnesia

universal grammar; humans are born with built-in predisposition to learn grammar rules

linguistic determinism

language expression (speaking)

language reception (comprehension)

general intelligence (g); factor analysis

primary mental abilities

8 intelligences (multiple intelligences)

10 year rule

3 intelligences (triarchic theory)

emotional intelligence

theorized that “natural ability” (intelligence) can be measured and could encourage those of high ability to mate with one another

created an intelligence test that measured each child’s mental age

Stanford-Binet

intelligence quotient (IQ)

Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)

fixed mindset & growth mindset

hierarchy of needs

sexual response cycle

sexual motivation

James-Lange theory

Cannon-Bard theory

two factor theory

our emotional responses and cognitive responses do not always follow a specific pattern

a thought must come before any emotion or physiological arousal

facial language for basic emotions is innate; 6 basic emotions

general adaptation syndrome (GAS)

type a and type b personalities

motivational conflicts theory

psychoanalysis; psychosexual stages; oedipus complex; fixation; defense mechanisms

psychodynamic theories; “the individual feels at home in life and feels his existence to be worthwhile just so far as he is useful to others and is overcoming feelings of inferiority (inferiority complex)"

psychodynamic theories; “the view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women’s self-respect”

psychodynamic theories; collective unconscious; Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

inkblot test

humanistic theories; 3 conditions for ideal growth; client-centered therapy & active listening

believed that we can reduce many of our normal individual variations to 2 or 3 dimensions, including extraversion-introversion and emotional stability-instability

social-cognitive perspective

humanistic theories; hierarchy of needs; self-actualization

mental health treatment reformer; against locking and chaining up people with mental illnesses

exposure therapies

“Little Peter” counterconditioning experiment

rational-emotive behavior therapy

analyzed dreams of depressed people and sought to reverse their catastrophizing beliefs about themselves, their situations, and their futures