Researcher who conducted a series of experiments where children were exposed to aggressive behaviour. he found that they were likely to imitate this behaviour suggesting that children are influenced by models in their social environment.
Astrology:
System for explaining and predicting how we think, feel and behave on the basis of the positions of the stars and planets at the time of a persons birth.
Barnum Effect:
The tendency to believe that a personality description or a prediction about the future is accurate if it is stated in a vague or general way
Behaviour:
The action or reaction of something as a machine or substance under specified circumstances.
Behavioural Perspective:
A psychological approach that explains how behaviour is learned and molded by experience. behaviourists believe that almost everything a person or animal does is influenced by rewards and punishments in everyday life.
BF Skinner:
A pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. he is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons and rats.
Biological Perspective:
The psychological perspective that emphasizes the influence of biology on behaviour. it assumes that all thoughts, feelings and behaviour are associated with underlying bodily activities and processes.
Bobo-Doll Experiment:
Nursery school students observed an adult play aggressively yelling & hitting with an inflatable clown Bo bo; when children were later allowed to play with the Bo bo, those children who witnesses the Bo bo doll performed the same aggressive actions and improvised new ways of playing aggressively.
Clinical Psychologist:
A psychologist who assesses, diagnoses, treats and prevents a wide range of mental health problems.
Cognitive Perspective:
A psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, and other areas of behaviour
Educational Psychologist:
A psychologist which provides assessment, intervention and counselling services relevant to the management of development and educational issues across the lifespan.
Electronic Brain Stimulation:
Delivers a constant low electrical stimulation to a small region of the brain, through implanted electrodes connected to an implanted battery. It is used to partially restore normal movements in Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.
Empirical Evidence:
Scientific evidence obtained by careful observation and experimentation.
Forensic Psychologist:
A psychologist who applies psychological knowledge in the legal system. may provide opinion on criminal behaviour, child abuse ect.
Forgetting Curve:
Founded by Hermann Ebbinghaus. displays retention of information and forgetting over time. conclusions to this were that most forgetting happens right after learning something. this was modified to that forgetting doesn't occur that quickly if the subject is memorizing more meaningful material.
Mental Process:
Thoughts, feelings and motives that each of us experiences privately, but cannot be observed directly.
Neuropsychologist:
A psychologist who assesses changes in behaviour or thinking due to brain damage or irregularities in brain function.
Numerology:
The study of numbers for the purposes of predicting the future
Organisational Psychologist:
A psychologist who focuses on the ways of assisting organisations to become more effective while maintaining the well being of employees.
Pseudoscience:
A theory or methodology which is presented as scientific, but lacks in scientific merit and evidence.
Psychiatrist:
A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders; can prescribe medication.
Psychologist:
Holds an advanced degree but is not a medical doctor; evaluates and treats emotional problems and mental illness.
Psychology:
The science of behavior and mental processes.
Replication:
The repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion.
Scientific Method:
A method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses.
Socio-cultural Perspective:
A psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural influences on behaviour. factors such as sex, age, race, income and culture are considered important on behaviour.
Sport Psychologist:
A psychologist who applies psychological theories to help athletes achieve peak performance and develop personal well being.
Wilder Penfield:
Neurosurgeon who used Electric Stimulation of the Brain (ESB) to stimulate parts of the brain then asked patients what they felt. he used this information to map the brain in regard to the identification and location of the areas responsible for movement and sensation.