Common mistakes

human traits inherited

Natural selection

Structuralism

Behaviorism founder

Neo-Freud, Childhood tensions are background

Neo-Freud, collective unconscious+ personal unconscious, created intro+extroversion

Created Rational Emotive Therapy

Humanist, Hierarchy of Needs

Humanist, Unconditional Positive Regard, Client-Centered Therapy

Operant conditioning, His box, Everyone born with a blank slate

Classical Conditioning, Dogs

Humans in born native ability to make languages

4-stage theory of cognitive development. (Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal operational)

The diffrent vs. stages in life

3 levels of moral reasoning

Language determines the way we think

There are 3 types of intelligences

Multiple Intelligence theory

Observational learning, children copying parents hitting

Law of effect: Behavior followed by good results more likely to occur

General IQ test

WITA, IQ tests for adults

intelligence was tracked with “g”

Conformity test, see if one person would say same wrong answer as everyone else

Isolation and attachment, emotional trauma is long lasting

Personality molded by fears and impulses

Theory: Behavior through observing, imitating and rewards/punishments

Theory: When cultural perception of gender learned, children adjust their behavior

Theory: Detect faint stimuli amid background stimuli

Theory: the retina contains three different color receptors--one most sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue--which when stimulated in a combination, can produce the perception of any color

Theory: opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black)

Theory: Spinal cord has a neurological gate to decide if pain signals pass or not

Theory: Need causes arousal to motivate and satisfy need

Theory: Emotion based on physiological responses

Theory: Emotion + Physiological response at same time

Theory: To have emotion, you need to be aroused physically and mentally

Theory: Explanation for behavior as person’s disposition or surrounding/situation

Theory: Act to reduce discomfort when 2 of our thoughts conflict

Theory: our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs

Side of brain for language + logic

Brain Side for creativity + spacial

Stimulate hunger

suppresses hunger

temporal lobe, speaking

temporal lobe, understanding words

sensory, body to the brain

motor, brain to the body

(loss of the new info

new memory hinders recall of old memory

forgetting new stuff

forgetting old stuff

skills, unconsciously doing

(step-by-step)

a broader range of mental shortcuts and problem-solving strategies that humans use to make decisions quickly and efficiently

(stereotypes)

(based on available info)

brain’s sensory processing unit (control center)

in brain, maintains homeostasis, fight or flight

(basic sound units) EX: cat = K, Ah, T

(basic units of meaning) EX: Undoing = Un-Do-Ing

abstract + ability to think of new stuff

facts + acquired knowledge

judgements based on past experiences

clinging to one’s belief even when they have been discredited

loss of self-awareness and self-restraint when in a group

Belief others agree with us more than they do

frustration (being impeded from a goal) leads to aggressive behavior

tendency to use short-cut decision making technique based on the most dramatic example and prototypes of stimuli we are deciding about

situation over disposition attributes

improved performance on tasks in front of groups, it applies to tasks we know well or do well, not to newly learned or difficult tasks

tendency for individuals engaged in a group task to work less hard than if they were being held individually accountable or working alone

a situation when those engaged in a conflicting pursuit of self-interest become caught in mutually self-destructive behavior.

Movemennt, memory

Alertness, motor movement

Inhibitory

Excitatory

arousal, fight or flight

Mood, sleep control

Pain control

Makes you full

Makes you hungry

stage: object permanence + stranger anxiety (don’t know who from who)

stage: kids can’t think logically about abstractions

: kids do think logically about concrete things, conversations, volumes

morality, abstract thinking

directing conflict to good use

Theory: Encodes, stores, retrieves info

visual memory

sound memory

therapist aggressively challenges irrational thought processes and works with patients to change the habit of negative internal sentences

a type of exposure therapy that subjects a person to massive doses of what they are afraid of

Brain part that regulates heart rate and breathing

Hippocampus stores what type of memory, other is not localized

med to schizophrenia, lower excess dopamine

med for bipolar

treats ADHD

Machine: x-ray of brain

Machine: Surface brain waves

Machine: Magnetic fields activity

Machine: Radioactive glucose lvls