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18 Cards in this Set
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Yelled-Dodson Law |
Curvilinear relationship between arousal and performance. Arousal and performance both increase until arousal increases too much. Then performance will decrease. |
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Clark Hull’s Theory of motivation |
Innate drives determine behavior |
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Garcia effect |
Conditioned taste aversion. Aversion to a taste or smell based on based on association to a negative reaction. |
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Zajonc |
Studied mere exposure effect. Suggested the presence of others impacts performance |
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James Lange Theory |
Emotions occur in response to physiological states |
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Experimental study design |
Manipulation of variables |
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Piaget’s stages of cognitive development |
Sensorimotor Preoperational Concrete operational Formal operational |
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Sensorimotor |
Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development. Marks the beginning of object permanence. |
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Preoperational |
Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development. 2-5 years old. Beginning of verbal and egocentric thinking. |
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Concrete operational |
Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development. 6-11 years. Conservation takes place. |
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Formal Operational |
Piaget’s final / fourth stage of cognitive development. 12+ years. Ability of conduct abstract reasoning and systematic problem solving |
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Vicarious reinforcement |
Albert Bandura’s social learning theory that we learn from observing others in social contexts. Vicarious learning, a component of social learning theory, suggests that we observe and learn from the consequences of ones behavior. |
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John Dewy |
One of the founders of functional psychology |
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Functional psychology |
Philosophy that considers mental life and behavior as active adaptation to ones environment |
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William James |
“Father” of American psychology. Started Harvard’s Psychology program. Helped establish psychology as a science. |
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Carol Rogers |
Founder of Humanistic Psychology |
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Humanistic Psychology |
Philosophy tied to humanism. Based in humans inherent drive towards self actualization, in the process of realizing and expressing ones capabilities. |
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Kurt Lewin |
Studied leadership styles. Modern pioneer of social, organizational, and applied psychology. |
