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functionalism
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psychoanalysis
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structuralism
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Pavlo's dogs
Ivan Pavlo conducted an experiment on dogs to demenstrate what a conditioned reflex is. Pavlo inserted tubes into the saliva glands of a group of dogs. He measured the amount of saliva secreated from the dogs mouth when he gave them food. He then rang a bell everytime he gave the dogs food. Eventually he conditioned the dogs to salvate at the sound of the bell. -
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behaviorism
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Little Albert
John B Watson conducted a study on a child named Albert in order to show evidence of classical conditioning and stimulus generalization. -
skinners box
Created Skinners box.A rat was placed in a box.He would punish the rat with a electrical shock when it answered wrong and would reward it with food when it answered corretly.This experiment proves operant conditioning. -
Asch's conformity experiment
Actors gave the wrong answer to a simple question.They observed the perticipant going along with the groups answer. -
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humanism
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Allen and Beatrix Gardener chimp sign language
Attempted to teach American sign language to a chimp. -
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cognition
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Bobo Doll
Albert Bandura studied the behavior of children after watching an adult model behave aggressively toward a bobo doll.This experinment is evidence of the social learning theory. -
Milgram Experiment
Participants were told to give a person (actor) a (fake) electical shock everytime they got an answer wrong while being advised by an advisor (actor) to do so. The shocks increased to a harmful rate as the questions went on. The participant, knowing the pain the shocks were causeing, had to decide if she/he would keep going with the questions.This experinemt proved people are conditioned to obey. -
Martin Seligman learned helplessness
Electicly shocked a dog until it gave up on trying to escape the pain.Discovered learned helplessness. -
Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo and his team of researchers put twenty four male students into a mock prison and recorded their behavior.This experiment demonstrates the cognitive disonance theory. -
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evolutionary
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Socio-cultural
