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Asperger Hans: Asperger published the first definition of Asperger syndrome in 1944. In four boys, he identified a pattern of behavior and abilities that he called "autistic psychopathy", meaning autism (self) and p...Kanner Leo: Kanner was the first physician in the United States to be identified as a child psychiatrist and his first textbook, Child Psychiatry in 1935, was the first English language textbook to focus on the p...
Skinner: Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904 – 1990) became a major figure in psychology for his work on operant conditioning. Excellent resources and a bibliography can be found on this web site www.bfskinne...
Deception: This refers to the misleading of participants when carrying out research. Deception means the participant has not given informed consent to participate in the research. See also Ethics ...
Brain: Grey thing which weighs about 1.4kg (3lbs) and contains about 100 billion nerve cells (neurones). There will be a good description of all of the important bits of the brain here soon. Chec...
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Social Identity Theory: This social cognitive theory was developed particularly by Henri Tajfel and is one of the main theories in European social psychology. Social identity theory proposes that the membership of soci...Behaviourism: An approach in psychology which attempts to explain all behaviour in terms of learning. This reductionist approach largely focuses on overt behaviour and ignores internal mechanisms such as cogn...
Frustration Aggression Hypothesis: This argument was proposed by Dollard et al. (1939) to explain that aggression is always caused by some form of frustration. It is claimed that people are motivated to reach goals, but if these ...
Independent Measures Design: If two groups in an experiment consist of different individuals then this is an independent measures design. For example, if we are trying to discover if girls are less competitive than boys, th...
Zajonc's drive theory: Sometimes the presence of an audience can improve the performance of a sports person – this is referred to as social facilitation. However, sometimes an audience can have the opposite effect o...
