PSY 333 Exam 1 Study Guide: Abnormal Psychology Foundations
Review
What was the first domesticated animal? - ✔✔Dog
Anthropomorphism - ✔✔Attribution of what are believed to be uniquely human
characteristics to anything other than a human being.
Why did anthropomorphism receive a negative's connotation at first? - ✔✔When xenophanes
critiqued Homer's poetry for treating the gods as if they were people.
Anthropodenial - ✔✔A priority; rejection of shared characteristics between humans and
animals, when in fact they may exist.
Mind - ✔✔Behaviors and operations that enable/create these behaviors. ex: perception,
conditioning, consciousness
"Thought" - ✔✔thought implies language vs thought can occur without language.
"Intelligence" - ✔✔Each species has their own intelligence
"Cognition" - ✔✔full range of animal behavior
Charles Darwin - ✔✔-Theory of evolution (1859)
-Both behavior and psychology were part of the evolution process.
-Launch comparative psychology between different species.
, Evolution theory - ✔✔Each member varies in traits.
"Fitness" --> Versions allow organism to better adapt, survive, and reproduce to pass on version
of that trait.
Peppered Moth and Melanich Moth - ✔✔Peppered: Light Pattern
Melanic: Dark Colored and Rare
Industrial Revolution: Soot and other industrial wastes darkened tree trunks and killed off
lichens.
-Peppered moths become rare, melanic more common.
-Color of tree trunk.
George Romanes - ✔✔-1st to study the psychology of non-human animals
-relied on anecdotes
-Not controlled and empirical
-Too free in interpretations
__Feelings in ants, fetishism in dogs.
Colwyn Lloyd Morgan - ✔✔Argued for more careful interpretations of animal behavior.
-Wrote "Introduction to Comparative Psychology"
Edward Thorndike - ✔✔-Introduced the experimental method to the study of animal
psychology.
Who did the lab experimental method originate with? - ✔✔Edward Thorndike.
-Focused on cause-and-effect behavior.
Review
What was the first domesticated animal? - ✔✔Dog
Anthropomorphism - ✔✔Attribution of what are believed to be uniquely human
characteristics to anything other than a human being.
Why did anthropomorphism receive a negative's connotation at first? - ✔✔When xenophanes
critiqued Homer's poetry for treating the gods as if they were people.
Anthropodenial - ✔✔A priority; rejection of shared characteristics between humans and
animals, when in fact they may exist.
Mind - ✔✔Behaviors and operations that enable/create these behaviors. ex: perception,
conditioning, consciousness
"Thought" - ✔✔thought implies language vs thought can occur without language.
"Intelligence" - ✔✔Each species has their own intelligence
"Cognition" - ✔✔full range of animal behavior
Charles Darwin - ✔✔-Theory of evolution (1859)
-Both behavior and psychology were part of the evolution process.
-Launch comparative psychology between different species.
, Evolution theory - ✔✔Each member varies in traits.
"Fitness" --> Versions allow organism to better adapt, survive, and reproduce to pass on version
of that trait.
Peppered Moth and Melanich Moth - ✔✔Peppered: Light Pattern
Melanic: Dark Colored and Rare
Industrial Revolution: Soot and other industrial wastes darkened tree trunks and killed off
lichens.
-Peppered moths become rare, melanic more common.
-Color of tree trunk.
George Romanes - ✔✔-1st to study the psychology of non-human animals
-relied on anecdotes
-Not controlled and empirical
-Too free in interpretations
__Feelings in ants, fetishism in dogs.
Colwyn Lloyd Morgan - ✔✔Argued for more careful interpretations of animal behavior.
-Wrote "Introduction to Comparative Psychology"
Edward Thorndike - ✔✔-Introduced the experimental method to the study of animal
psychology.
Who did the lab experimental method originate with? - ✔✔Edward Thorndike.
-Focused on cause-and-effect behavior.
