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What did psychology begin as?
An attempt to answer philosophical questions about human nature using methods from sciences such as physics and physiology.
Who set up the first psychological laboratory and where?
Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, Germany
What was Wundt trying to discover in his lab?
How people sense and perceive the world around them
What group believed consciousness to be made up of elements that could be combined to form different perceptions?
structuralists
The study of the structure of mind and behavior; the view that all human mental experience can be understood as a combination of simple elements or events.
structuralism
Primary examination technique of structuralism
introspection
A technique for examining mental experiences that involves reporting one's conscious thoughts and feelings
introspection
Psychological approach influenced by Darwin's theory of natural selection that suggests felt consciousness experience is always adapting and changing based on environment
functionalism
Who set up the first psychological laboratory in the united States??
Edward Titchener
Why did introspection fall into disfavor as a way to study consciousness?
It is subjective, and could not be applied to studies of animals and children
What group was most interested in how mental experiences and processes were adaptive for people?
Functionalists
Do present day psychologists take a functionalist or struturalist approach?
They study both structure and function
An approach to psychology that focuses on how physiological and biochemical processes produce psychological phenomenon
Biological approach
An approach to psychology that posits that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors stem from the interaction of innate drives and society's restrictions on the expression of those drives.
Psychodynamic approach
The founder of a branch of psychodynamic psychology that includes concepts such as archetypes; the collective unconscious; synchronicity; introversion/extroversion; and the complex
Carl Jung
The part of an individual's unconscious that is inherited, evolutionarily developed, and common to all members of the species
collective unconscious
A universal, inherited, primitive, and symbolic representation of a particular experience or object
archetype
The therapeutic approach that views people as positive beings that tend to move toward becoming better people
Carl Roger's Person-Centered Approach (also known as client-centered therapy)
The theory that people are born with five genetically encoded needs: survival, love, power, freedom, and fun
reality theory
Therapeutic approach that posits that if a person can change the way they think about a situation, their behavior around that situation will change as well
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Psychologist who developed REBT
Albert Ellis
ABC theory of personality is specific to what type of therapy?
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
What does the ABC theory of personality posit?
It is a person's beliefs about an event that cause their response, not so much the event itself
What do A, B, and C stand for in ABC theory?
A = activating event
B = the person’s belief
C = the person’s emotional and behavioral consequence or reaction
What does REBT see as the cause of most psychological disorders?
self-blame
The psychological perspective primarily concerned with observable behavior that can be objectively recorded and with the relationships of observable behavior to environmental stimuli
behavioral approach
What is the goal of behavior therapy?
change the way clients think and react to situations and events through action-oriented methods
Two most famous behavioral psychologists
Pavlov and Skinner
Which type of psychological research is most likely to study animals?
Behaviorists
The perspective on psychology that stresses human thought and the processes of knowing, such as attending, thinking, remembering, expecting, solving problems, fantasizing, and consciousness
cognitive approach
Who developed cognitive theory?
Aaron Beck
If psychoanalysis focuses on unconscious beliefs, what does cognitive theory focus on?
automatic thoughts and beliefs that lead to distress
How do automatic thoughts differ from unconscious thoughts?
They are spontaneous, yet conscious, thoughts that are representative of deep-seated beliefs
Ways a person views the world, including important beliefs about people, events, and the environment
cognitive schemas
What is the ultimate goal of cognitive therapy?
ridding the client of all distorted thought patterns
A psychological model that emphasizes an individual's phenomenal world and inherent capacity for making rational choices and developing to maximum potential
humanistic perspective
Which branch of psychology sees people as fundamentally good?
Humanists
Psychologist who made the split from pure psychodynamic theory insisting that a person helps to create themselves and is not purely a creation of their early experiences
Alfred Adler
Theory that an individual begins to form their personality and approach to life during the first 6 years and the outcome is much more related to choices and responsibility rather than pure unconscious or conscious motivation
Adlerian theory
Philosophy that a person is responsible for their own destiny and their own sense of self
existential philosophy
Existential therapy's idea of the three ways in which a client can "be in the world"
Umwelt
Mitwelt
Eigenwelt
Basic goal of existential therapy
authenticity - how a client can fully develop themselves and live up to their true potential
Philosophical roots of existential or humanistic theory
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
A school of psychology that maintains that psychological phenomena can be understood only when viewed as organized, structured wholes, not when broken down into primitive perceptual elements
Gestalt psychology
Psychologists who study various aspects of the human work environment, such as communication among employees, socialization or enculturation of workers, leadership, job satisfaction, stress and burnout
Organizational psychologists
American psychologist and social learning theorist who believes personality and situational variables are imortant in explaining behavior
Walter Mischel
American psychologist who is known for developing influential theories, including social learning theory and locus of control
Julian Rotter
German psychologist who defined Gestalt psychology, with the premise that the whole may be greater than the sum of its parts
Max Wertheimer
Psychologist known for his social learning theory, as well as influencing the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology.
Albert Bandura
American psychologist who is considered the founder of humanistic psychology, known for the "hierarchy of human needs"
Abraham Maslow
American behavioral psychologist who studied and defined operant conditioning
BF Skinner
One of the founders of humanistic psychology who developed the concepts of client-centered therapy and student-centered learning
Carl Rogers
American feminist psychologist who proposed a stage theory of moral development for women
Carol Gilligan
Developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development
Erik Erikson
Russian nobel prize winner who first described classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
Brain researchers who identified the pleasure center of the brain
James Olds and Peter Milner
Swiss psychologist known for his theory of cognitive development, who influenced educational psychology greatly during his lifetime
Jean Piaget
The American psychologist who established the school of behaviorism after studying animals
John B Watson
British psychologist in the field of child development who pioneered attachment theory
John Bowlby
Post-renaissance thinker who influenced modern psychology with An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
American psychologist best known for his "stages of moral development" theory
Lawrence Kohlberg
Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalytic method of psychiatry
Sigmund Freud
An English psychologist who pioneered several statistical approaches and developed the concept of a single intelligence factor (g)
Charles Edward Spearman
Established first U.S. experimental psychology lab, founded the APA, and started the American Journal of Psychology and Journal of Applied Psychology
G. Stanley Hall
American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology who researched social conformity
Solomon Asch
American psychologist and physician who was a strong proponent of functionalism and radical empiricism
William James
German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory
Erich Fromm
American existential psychologist who introduced existential psychology into the U.S.
Rollo May
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, considered one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and functional psychology
John Dewey
American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, and pragmatist, who is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology
George Herbert Mead
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, founder of logotherapy and key figure in the existential therapy movement
Viktor Frankl
One of the founders of the field of Positive Adult Development
Daniel Levinson
Russian development psychologist who developed the sociocultural theory of cognitive development
Lev Vygotsky
British psychoanalyst who was the leading innovator in theorizing object relations theory
Melanie Klein
American developmental psychologist known for her development of Attachment Theory and work with "The Strange Situation"
Mary Ainsworth
Behaviorists
John B Watson
Ivan Pavlov
BF Skinner
Jean Piaget
Lawrence Kohlberg
Erik Erikson
John Bowlby
Carol Gilligan
Mary Ainsworth
John Bowlby
Melanie Klein
Daniel Levinson
Developmental theorists
Existentialists
Viktor Frankl
Rollo May
Functionalists
William James
John Dewey
Humanistic psychologists
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Struturalists
Edward B. Titchener
Empiricists
John Locke
William James
John Dewey
Social Learning Theorists (cognitive-behavioral psychologists)
Albert Bandura
Walter Mischel
Julian Rotter
The state of being aware
consciousness
The top level of consciousness; cognizance of the autobiographical character of personally experienced events
self-awareness
An altered state of awareness characterized by deep relaxation, susceptibility to suggestions, and changes in perception, memory, motivation, and self-control
hypnosis
A form of consciousness alteration designed to enhance self-knowledge and well-being through reduced self-awareness
meditation
A mental process that severs a connection to a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity
dissociation
Chemicals that affect mental processes and behavior by temporarily changing conscious awareness of reality
psychoactive drugs
Psychoactive drugs which temporarily diminish the function or activity of a specific part of the body or mind
depressants
Psychoactive drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both
stimulants
Psychoactive drugs have in common that they can cause subjective changes in perception, thought, emotion and consciousness
hallucinogens
Categories of hallucinogens
psychedelics, dissociatives, and deliriants
A cycle of wakefulness that synchronizes with the day
circadian rhythm
Electrical currents in the brain
brain waves
Cycle of brain waves during sleep repeats this often
Every 90 minutes
Stages of sleep
Brain waves that predominantly originate from the occipital lobe during wakeful relaxation with closed eyes
alpha waves
The transitional state between wakefulness and sleep
hypnogogic
A burst of brain activity visible on an EEG that occurs during stage 2 sleep
sleep spindle
A high amplitude brain wave that is usually associated with slow-wave sleep (SWS)
delta waves
Deep sleep, consists of stages three and four of non-rapid eye movement sleep
slow-wave sleep
A behavioral sign of the phase of sleep during which the sleeper is likely to be experiencing dreamlike mental activity
Rapid Eye Movement (REM)
The region of the brain stem that alerts the cerebral cortex to incoming sensory signals and is responsible for maintaining consciousness and awakening from sleep
reticular formation
Another name for REM sleep, because the sleeper seems calm and relaxed despite increased cortical activity
paradoxical sleep
Recurring difficult falling asleep or staying asleep
insomnia
A sleep disorder characterized by an irresistible compulsion to sleep during the daytime
narcolepsy
A sleep disorder of the upper respiratory system that causes the person to stop breathing while asleep
sleep apnea
In Freudian dream analysis, the surface content of a dream, which is assumed to mask the dream's actual meaning
manifest content
In Freudian dream analysis, the hidden meaning of a dream
latent content
Theory that the brain's neurons fire randomly during seep, and as we wake, we construct a dream in order to make sense our of random images that have been generated.
activation-synthesis theory
Theory that dreams are how our brains sort through the day's events and record them into memory
information-processing
Prolonged periods of REM sleep that happen when a person has been deprived of REM sleep for a period.
REM rebound
The theory that conscious awareness of dreaming is a learnable skill that enables dreamers to control the direction and content of their dreams
lucid dreaming
The activation or energization of goal-oriented behavior
motivation
The activation or energization of goal-oriented behavior
catharsis
The psychic energy that drives individuals toward sensual pleasures of all types, especially sexual ones
libido
The motivational state of excitement and tension brought about by physiological and cognitive reactions to erotic stimuli
sexual arousal
Socially learned programs of sexual responsiveness
sexual scripts
When levels of this nutrient are low, we feel hungry
glucose
Neurons that appear to monitor blood glucose levels
glucostats
This hormone indirectly influences hunger by decreasing glucose levels
insulin
Part of the brain primarily responsible for food intake
hypothalamus
Effect in rats of damage to the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)
Extreme overeating
Theory that the hypothalamus contains an on and an off switch for eating, located in two different regions (LH and VMH)
dual-center theory
In the dual-center theory, what can activate the eating "switches" in the hypothalamus?
Internal & external signals (such as the sight of food)
The target weight that the body strives to maintain
weight set point
Set point theory suggest that each person's body has a fixed number of what?
fat cells
What effect of dieting is challenging to those who want to lose weight?
it slows the body's metabolism
Reasons for eating and overeating
learned preferences and habits
external cues
stress and arousal
Triggers for thirsts
(1) when the concentration of salt cells in the body reaches a certain level
(2) a decrease in the total volume of fluid in the circulatory system
(3) Rise in body temperature or energy expenditure
The theory that emotions consisted of physiological arousal and cognition factors
Two factor theory of emotion
What does Schachter's two factor theory of emotion suggest?
That cognitions are used to interpret the meaning of physiological reactions to outside events. First, you feel the physical arousal --> label the arousal --> experience the emotion
A theory that people feel emotions first and then act upon them
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
A theory stating that the experience of emotion is the joint effect of physiological arousal and cognitive appraisal, which serves to determine how an ambiguous inner state of arousal will be labeled
Cognitive appraisal theory of emotion
A peripheral-feedback theory of emotion stating that an eliciting stimulus triggers a behavioral response that sends different sensory and motor feedback to the brain and creates the feeling of a specific emotion
James-Lange theory of emotion
Idea that involuntary movements of the face send feedback to the brain about which emotion is being felt
facial feedback theory
What 5 facial expressions does the facial feedback theory suggest are universal?
happiness, anger, disgust, sadness, and fear-surprise
This theorist proposed that emotions evolved because they help a species to survive
Robert Plutchik
Plutchik's 8 primary emotions
sadness, fear, surprise, anger, disgust, anticipation, joy, acceptance
An inborn, unlearned, fixed pattern of behavior that is biologically determined and is a characteristic of an entire species
instinct
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is based on this
motivation
Clark Hull's theory that suggests that motivation results from attempting to keep a balanced internal state
drive reduction theory
A psychological state of tension or arousal that motivates activities to reduce this tension and restore homeostatic balance
a drive
Drives that arise from biological needs
primary drives
Drives that are learned through operant or classical conditioning
secondary drives
Theory that external stimuli regulate motivational states and that human behavior is goal-directed
secondary drives
Theory that the aim of motivation is to maintain an optimal level of alertness and mental/physical activation
arousal theory
A description of the empirical relationship between arousal and performance
Yerkes-Dodson law
What does the Yerkes-Dodson law dictate?
That performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point
Richard Solomon's theory that one emotional state will trigger an opposite emotional state that lasts long after the original emotion has disappeared, and the opposite state is what maintains motivation to carry out certain behaviors
opponent-process theory of motivation
Model suggesting that people must satisfy their basic or physiological needs before they can satisfy their higher-order needs.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Why do psychologists feel Maslow's theory is important?
it highlights the complexity of human needs
What criticism is directed toward Maslow's theory?
It is difficult to test empirically
Burton White's name for the desire to perform an activity because we find it inherently enjoyable
intrinsic motivation
When an activity is performed in order to obtain a reward or avoid an undesirable consequence
extrinsic motivation
Conditions that direct people toward establishing or maintaining relationships with others
social motives
Internal conditions related to feelings about self or others and establishing and maintaining relationships
social needs
A social need that directs a person to constantly strive for excellence and success
need for achievement (nAch)
Test that measures the strength of various social motives in an individual
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Kind of goals set by people with high needs for achievement
goals of moderate difficulty
The unique psychological qualities of an individual that influence a variety of characteristic behavior patterns (both overt and covert) across different situations and over time
personality
The systematic procedures and measurement instruments used by trained professionals to evaluate an individual's functioning, aptitudes, abilities, or mental states
formal assessment
A self-report questionnaire used for personality assessment that includes a series of items about personal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
personality inventory
A personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts
projective test
Distinct patterns of personality characteristics used to assign people to categories; qualitative differences, rather than differences in degree, used to discriminate among people
personality types
Theories of personality that share the assumption that personality is shaped by and behavior is motivated by powerful inner forces
psychodynamic personality theories
Which two forces did Freud believe to be the source of most needs or motives?
sex and aggression
Psychic determinism
Unconscious motivation
The role of childhood experiences
three basic psychodynamic concepts
Psychoanalysis specifically refers to…
Sigmund Freud’s work and theories
How psychodynamic therapy differs from psychoanalysis
contemporary influences have been added to Freud's work
Freud's 3 levels of consciousness
Perceptual consciousness
Preconscious
Unconscious
The concept that, at any moment, the individual is consciously aware of only a small number of items or events
perceptual consciousness
The level of consciousness that comprises those events or facts not in the center of attention, yet readily retrieved from memory
preconscious
Memory that has been forgotten or repressed resides here
unconscious
The instinctual pole of the personality that does not think, only acts
id
The aspect of personality involved in self-preservation activities and in directing instinctual drives and urges into rational behavior
ego
The aspect of personality that represents the internalization of society's values, standards, and morals
superego
The way in which people distort reality to delude themselves into believing that something anxiety-provoking isn't happening
defense mechanisms
In the psychodynamic mode, what triggers anxiety?
Conflict between the id, ego, and super ego
The act of a client projecting reactions onto the counselor in the same way the client would react to a person who played a significant role in their personal life – usually a father or mother
transference
When the therapist, as a result of the therapy sessions, begins to transfer the therapist's own unconscious feelings to the patient
countertransference
Creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior
rationalization
Pushing unacceptable id impulses out of awareness and back into the unconscious
repression
What did Freud think causes repression?
When a thought, feeling, or emotion is too painful for the person to rationally handle, the ego suppresses the threatening idea
Behaving oppositely of one's true feelings
reaction formation
Reversion to immature patterns of behavior
regression
Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, motivations, or shortcomings onto others
projection
Shifting unacceptable feelings from their original source to a safer, substitute target
displacement
Engaging in a useful, socially acceptable course of behavior to replace a socially unacceptable or distasteful impulse
sublimation
Detaching from stress by dealing with a situation in an intellectual and unemotional manner
intellectualization
Denying that a very unpleasant thing has happened
denial
In psychoanalysis, when a patient directly or indirectly opposes changing their behavior or refuses to discuss, remember, or think about presumably clinically relevant experiences
resistance
Freud's therapeutic method in which a patient gives a running account of thoughts, wishes, physical sensations, and mental images as they occur.
free association
Do what feels good, and do it now
pleasure principle - what the id works according to
Do what will get your needs met effectively, efficiently, and without getting hurt
reality principle - what the ego works according to
Do what's right and don't do what's wrong
morality principle - what the superego works according to
The approach to personality based on how people think about themselves and relate to the world around them
social-cognitive approach
The idea that how people think and behave, and what their environment is like, all interact to influence consistent behavior
reciprocal determinism
The idea that people's unique personalities can be understood as them having relatively greater or lesser amounts of traits that are consistent across people
nomothetic
What does the nomothetic perspective suggest?
people differ in their positions along a continuum in the same set of traits
The approach to personality that focuses on the ways people differ from each other, and measures this
individual-difference approach
Consistent patterns of behavior
traits
How many trait terms are in the English language?
18,000
Statistically identifying traits for which scores correlate highly with each other
factor analysis
The "Big Five" traits
openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
The idea that people have unique personality structures; thus some traits (cardinal traits) are more important in understanding the structure of some people than others
idiographic
What does the idiographic view of personal traits emphasize?
That each person has a unique psychological structure and that some traits are possessed by only one person; and you cannot always compare one person with others
Changeable characteristics of personality, such as moodiness
states
A generalized evaluative attitude toward the self that influences both moods and behavior and that exerts a powerful effect on a range of personal and social behaviors
self-esteem
A person's mental model of his or her abilities and attributes
self-concept
The set of beliefs that one can perform adequately in a particular situation
self-efficacy
The ideal selves that a person would like to become, the selves a person could become, and the selves a person is afraid of becoming; components of the cognitive sense of self
possible selves
The psychologist whose theories have resulted in much of the current literature on self-esteem
Carl Rogers
A concept in personality psychology referring to a person's constant striving to realize his or her potential and to develop inherent talents and capabilities
self-actualization
Carl Rogers' name for the collection of talents, thoughts, desires, and feelings genuine to a person
true self
What we would like to be
ideal self
Messages that children receive about what they do that is considered by the parent to be of value
conditions of worth
Appreciation for who a person is, faults and all
unconditional positive regard
What can avoid or repair conflict over a person's conditions of worth?
relationship with empathic, accepting, and genuine people who offer unconditional positive regard
The legal (not clinical) designation for the state of an individual judged to be legally irresponsible or incompetent
insanity
Behavior that can be observed by others
overt behavior
Behavior that is not apparent or visible to others
covert behavior