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humanism
Humanism is a group of philosophies and ethical perspectives which emphasize the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively. -
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Biological/Neuroscience
Biological Psychology is the application of the principles of biology, to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in human and non-human animals. -
Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection
Natural selection is the gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population according to what helps in survival. -
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Evolutionary
Evolutionary psychology (EP) examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. -
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behaviorism
Behaviorism is an approach to psychology that combines the elements of philosophy, methodology, and theory. psychology should concern itself with the observable behavior of people and animals, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds according to BF Skinner and others. -
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structuralism
Founded by Edward B. Titchener and based on the loose writings of Wilhelm Wundt.Titchner believed that the main goal of psychology was to study mind and consciousness -
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psychoanalysis/ psychodynamic
A psychological and psychotherapeutic theory conceived by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. -
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Cognition
cognition is a group of mental processes that includes attention, memory, producing and processing language, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. -
pavlovs dogs
Pavlov had learned then when a bell was rung at the same time with food being presented to the dog in consecutive sequences, the dog will initially salivate when the food is presented. -
Little Albert
John B. Watson and Rosalie Alberta Rayner (graduate assistant at that time, but later Mrs Watson) attempted to condition a baby boy, Albert B., to fear a white laboratory rat. Little Albert is now com=nditioned to where he fears anything furry or white. -
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functionalism
William James is considered the founder of functional phsychology. Functionalism opposed the structuralism philosophy of psychology of the late 19th century -
B.F. Skinner's operant conditioning chamber
Skinner defined the term operant conditioning; it means the rough change of behavior by the use of reinforcement which is given after the desired response. -
BoBo Doll Experiment
Experiment conducted by Albert Bandura that focused on studying childrens behavior after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a bobo doll. The children that were exposed to the aggressive adult model behavior were more likely to act the same way as the model more than children that were not exposed to the behavior. -
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Socio-cultural
Sociocultural evolution(ism) is the theories of cultural evolution and social evolution, describing how cultures and societies have changed over time. -
milgram experiment
The Milgram experiment was conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. -
Genie
Genie was feral child who was the victim of one of the most severe cases of abuse and neglect ever documented. Genie had a hard time learning and understanding language, she didnt start using two word phrases until she knew and understood about 200 words( other kids start using two word phrases when the know and understand only about 50 words.) -
Stanford prison experiment
the experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. they tested college students from Stanford University -
KoKo the gorilla
Francine Patterson worked with koko to help her understand human language and american sign language.
