chap 1 Flashcards
law of effect
reward behaviour = behavior strengthens
overjustification effect
explaining your behaviour with more emphasis on situational factors than personal factors
psychology
scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
prosopagnosia
inability to recognise familiar faces due to brain damage (right side)
the man who mistook his wife for a hat book by?
oliver sacks
fundamental attribution error
when explaining others’ behaviour, we overestimate personality and underestimate situational factors (eg donating when many ppl are around u)
childhood amnesia duration
3yrs
cathartic effect (video games causing aggression)
reduces aggression as kids express it vicariously (get it outta their system) - LIE
what do u need to evaluate new claims abt psych
- already established psych facts
- standards for scientific evidence
father of medicine
hippocrates
physiology
study of the functions and parts of living organisms
Philosophers of ancient greece
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Studying the functions and parts of living organisms
Physiology
Nature debate
Born with knowledge and understanding of reality
Descartes (17th century) supported which view (nature nurture) and compared humans to what
Supported the nature view
Thinks the body is a machine
Nurture view
Knowledge is acquired thru experience and interactions
Blank slate
(tabula rasa) john Locke. Supports the nurture view
Ideas and association
Ideas enter thru senses and become associated thru principles like similarity and contrast
First psychological lab
By wilhelm wundt
In germany
At the university of Leipzig
1879
Wundt relied on
Introspection (dumb)
Structuralism
Analysis of mental structures
Functionalism
Studying how the mind works to enable an organism to adapt to and function in its environment
Theory of evolution by
Charles darwin
Behaviourism by
John watson
Behaviourism: US :: Gestalt psychology:?, psychoanalysis :?
Germany, .. europe
Gestalt means
Form/configuration
Gestalt by
Max, Kurt, wolfgang
psychoanalysis by
freud
what is psychoanalysis
unconscious ..freud used free association
syntactic structures book by, abt
noam chomsky, psycholinguistics
order of evol of psych
structuralism, functionalism, behaviourism, gestalt psych, pyschoanalysis, information processing theory, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology
structuralism by
titchener
punchimg someone who insults u.
behaviourist persp, biological, subjective, psychoanalytic, cognitive persp
behav - response to stimulus
bio - brain, nerves, muscles
subj - u took the insult personally and reacted
psychoananalatic - shows ur secretly agressive
cog - punched to defend your honour and aggression is a part of your plan