Forever Learn

Things I want to remember from my classes

Gestalt Psychology

The whole is more than the sum of its parts → we see the world as organized wholes and not isolated parts

Behaviourism

Psychology approach restricting scientific inquiry to observable behavior

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning (reinforce/punish)

Cognitive Psychology

Focus on mental abilities (memory, attention, perception) and behaviour

IO Psychology

Psychological factors in workplace

EXPERIMENT: STANDFORD MARSHMALLOW

Wait 15 minutes to get 2 marshmallows

• tested delay of gratification

• had strong correlation with SAT and BMI scores

  • Confound; social economic status

Confounding variable

Influences DV and IV causing a spurious/false association

Third variable

Another variable not part of study that can also influence IV and DV and may cause/remove a correlation

Construct validity

How well something characterizes the property it’s designed to measure

Embodied Cognition

Body’s interaction with environment (physical experiences) strongly influence how we see things and peopl

Executive Function

Skills used to manage everyday tasks

• Working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibition control

Working memory

Small amount of info held in limbo for easy access to work on cognitive tasks

Cognitive Flexibility

Ability to switch between thinking about 2 or multiple different concepts simultaneously

Inhibition Control

Controlling out automatic urges(attention, behavior, thinking, emotion) by pausing them and using attention and reasoning to to respond appropriately