Things from the practice tests :) Flashcards
Wolpe
Developed therapeutic technique of systematic desensitization
Lazarus
Known for the development of emotion focused and problem focused coping styles
Moreno
Known for the therapeutic technique of psychodrama in which clients act out their life experiences they are struggling with
Cognitive Structuralists
Fundamental belief is that a child is an active part of their own development
“Moving Away from Others”
Horney concept as a part of how children adapt to basic anxiety
Piaget
Everything to do with assimilation/accommodation. Inspired Cognitive Structuralist. Four Stages of Cognitive Development. Utilized the clinical method.
Law of Effect
Developed by Thorndike - (puzzle boxes for cats/pigeons).
Cognitive Maps
Suggested by Tolman, because he learned that rats utilized internal maps of mazes to determine how to solve them if there were roadblocks.
E.O. Wilson
Any question about Wilson is probably about sociobiology, and is concerned with the fitness of various species
Auditory Transduction
Takes place in the Organ of Corti
Standard Deviation
Measures Variability
Pre-operational Stage
Piaget 2nd cognitive stage. Time in which children begin to have the ability to internally represent the world
Spatial Organization
Mostly handled in the non-dominant hemisphere
Olds and Milner
Rats will electrically stimulate themselves in the septal nuclei (pleasure center, inhibits rage)
Galton
Studied individual differences as a way to study personality
Implosion
When therapist has the client imagine a fearfully conditioned stimulus as a way to begin desensitizing someone (i.e. flooding, but imagined)
Dual Code Hypothesis
Developed by Paivo. Asserts that concrete information (i.e. vocabulary) is encoded both visually and verbally when possible. This means that if a word/idea has better mental imagery associated with it, it will be remembered better
Hippocampus Lesion
Anterograde Amnesia
Chlorpromazine
Used to treat acute schizophrenia episodes
Hypothetico-Deductive Method
When a hypothesis is formed, and then studied, and then a new hypothesis is reevaluated.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflicts
When one needs to make a choice about the lesser of two evils.
Confabulation
Filling in memory gaps with distorted material (sometimes happens in disorders which effect memory)
Mental Chronometry
Use of response times to study the cognitive processes.
Eye Process in Dim Lights
Utilize rods mostly, No rods in fovea. During dim light, hard to determine shapes from fovea in dim light.
