A Review of Our Influential Psychologists
hierarchy of needs self-actualization
observational learning modeling Bobo doll experiment social-cognitive theory of personality development (learned helplessness, internal and external locus of control)
focused on childhood, but social, not sexual tensions human motivation comes from striving for superiority compensation
mental age
operant conditioning Skinner box Project Pigeon positive/negative reinforcement (primary, secondary, continuous, partial, fixed, variable) positive/negative punishment
personal unconscious and collective unconscious
people are basically good self-concept client-centered therapy
general intelligence (g factor)
law of effect
latent learning
eyewitness testimony/ memory planting false memories
stages of psychosocial development identity
attribution theory fundamental attribution error
general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
trait perspective of personality
attachment critical period
multiple intelligences
classical conditioning unconditioned/conditioned stimulus or response acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination
stages of cognitive development schema, assimilation, accommodation, object permanence
behaviorism “Little Albert”
basic anxiety “womb envy”
opposed Spearman identified seven clusters of “primary mental abilities”
basic levels of moral thinking
language (private speech vs. inner speech) ZPD (zone of proximal development) scaffolding
Gestalt Psychology
universal grammar
Stanford prison experiment role-playing
triarchic theory of intelligence analytical creative practical
repression psychoanalytic personality perspective free association, id, ego, superego psychosexual stages (Oedipus complex) and defense mechanisms psychoanalysis
conformity
obedience to authority