PSY 265: CHAPTER 10 - BEHAVIORIST
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Gestalt psychology
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20's - B must be observed as a whole. /separate parts - against structuralists
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Structuralism
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19th c. school of thought that conscious mental activity can be broken down - TITCHNER
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Determinism
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everything is determined and caused by preceding laws
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psychometrics
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quantitative meas. of psychological characteristics by stats.
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Hedonic
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related to pleasure
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pshychophysics
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relat. btw physical stimuli and percepts - like music, lights etc
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catharsis
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release of anxiety through reliving past events
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Radical Behaviorists
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reject anything thats not observable
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inductive reasoning
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from PARTICULAR to GENERAL.
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functionalist
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mental processes and ways thought helped environmental adaptions
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mentalist
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subjective data to explain B
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Behaviorism
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created by WATSON - observable behaviors -/inner mental states
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distributed practice
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study skill to retain info over many practice sesh
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massed practice
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learns skill through few intensely repetitive sesh.
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reinforcement reduces ___
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drive retention
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goal gradient
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deals with changes in response strength as a function of distance from goal
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regression
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learned response -not thinking of something that is motivated by the drive of fear
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systematic desensitization
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over exposure to anxiety provoking stimuli while engaging in a competing B
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Aversion therapy
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associate emot. response with maladaptive B
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premack principle
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tabula rosa - watson
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babies = blank slate of mind.
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clinical paradigm - Watson
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manual, verbal, emotional - conditioned across 3 domains.
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Frustration aggression hypothesis - Doll Mill
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aggression caused by frustrated efforts at drive reduction.
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PSY 265: CHAPTER 10 - BEHAVIORIST