Dave Cornell (PhD)

Primary appraisal is the immediate process of interpreting the meaning of an event or situation. The interpretation will lead to one of three conclusions. Either the event is interpreted as a threat, an opportunity, or as irrelevant. The term primary appraisal is used in stress research to help explain how individuals make decisions regarding how […]

Shadowing in psychology is a method to study a person’s attention skills. It provides insight into a participant’s selective attention, divided attention, intentional blindness, auditory processing speed, and working memory. It involves exposing a participant to several several stimuli simultaneously in order to track and measure their ability to pay attention to one stimulus and

The term ‘internal stimuli’ (singular: internal stimulus) refers to the biological or psychological experiences that occur from within a person or organism. Examples include changes in biological states that indicate the need for sleep or food, or a person’s thoughts and feelings that occur at the conscious or nonconscious level. Cognitive psychology has demonstrated wide-spread

The term external stimuli (singular: external stimulus) refers to objects or events that impact an organism and evoke a sensory, psychological, or behavioral response. External stimuli are commonly described as stimuli that impact upon the 5 sensory modalities: hearing, taste, touch, sight, and smell. External Stimuli Definition The role of external stimuli in affecting human

External validation refers to basing one’s value as a person on the standards of others. This means that whether a person sees themselves as being a valuable individual is determined by what others think. With external validation, the assessment of one’s beliefs, habits, or personality characteristics comes from sources such as family and friends, coworkers,

Internal validation refers to accepting the legitimacy of one’s thoughts and feelings. An individual’s sense of self-worth comes from within. No judgment is passed on aspects of one’s beliefs, habits, or personality characteristics. Even those attributes that may be deemed undesirable in society are fully accepted by the individual. Achieving internal validation may not be

Linguistic determinism posits that language determines the way a person sees the world. The structure of a specific language and the customary practices in its use affect how the world is categorized, shapes memory, and affects perception. According to linguistic determinism, because an individual’s native language affects their thought processes and worldview, then people will

Respondent conditioning is when learning occurs through the association of a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that naturally triggers a response. After the two stimuli have been paired repeatedly, then the neutral stimulus will also trigger the response. This form of learning is often called classical conditioning, or Pavlovian condition. Respondent conditioning was first discovered