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Pyschology Study
23 cards·by Skythen
What is Wilhelm Wundt known for?
1800's, Sought to identify the building blocks of consciousness.
What was Sigmund Freud known for?
Developed pyschoanalysis. Studied how feelings affect behaviors. / push pull of conscious
and unconscious
Humanistic Psychology
Belief humans are of free will and trying to maximize potential.
Define Stage 2 Sleep
bursts of rapid waves called sleep spindles, lasts 20 minutes. bursts of brain waves known as k
complex.
Define Stage 3 Sleep
Body temp decreases, not easy to wake. Delta waves. Breathing pulse slowed. Hard to wake.
20%-50% of EEG in form of delta waves.
Stage 4
Body continues to slow, Delta waves more than 50% Deep sleep and when you may talk in sleep
Define REM
Rapid eye movement, Paradoxical Sleep, breathing etc irregulary. EEG resemble someone who
is awake and mentally active.Musclesnearlyparalyze
Define Insomnia
Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. Related to environment, stress, anxiety etc.
Define Sleep Apnear
Awaken several times to breath. Chronic fatigue. You can cease breathing for up to 70 seconds.
Define Narcolepsy
Repeated REM attacks that happen out of no where. Boom goes the dynamite.
SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Baby dies during sleep. No known cause.
Night Terrors
Cannot be woken and does not remember the dream. Scary dreams.
Nightmares
Negative emotions, maybe remembered.
Define Learning
any relatively permanent change in potential BEHAVIOR or mental process from experiences.
Define Behaviorism
Study of observable behavior and the role of environment as a determinant of behavior.
John B Watson
Father of behaviorism
Define Conditioning
learning depends on associating contiguous events with one another.
Ivan Pavlov
classical conditioning.
Define Therapy
Systematic desensitization can be used to treat people who are phobic. Teaches you to relax in
presence of feared object.
Define Operant / Instrumental Conditioning
Association between a stimulus, the response to the stimulus, and a consequence.
Further on Operant
Learning process in which someone associates its own behavior with its consequences.
BF SKinner Edward Thorndike were leaders in?
Operant conditioning
Define Observational Learning
Learning by observing the behaviors of others. Vicarious learning.