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He founded the psychoanalytical approach He founded the psychoanalytical approach. Don’t slip up pronouncing his name.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
He established the first formal laboratory for psychological research; German engineering in the study of consciousness.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
She was denied her Ph.D. from Harvard despite completing the necessary work. Those sexist pigs!
Who is Mary Calkins?
He published the first leading textbook, Principles of Psychology, in 1890.
Who is William James?
He said that the mind cannot be studied scientifically; only observable behavior matters. He claimed to be able to turn any healthy baby into any type of person.
Who is John B. Watson?
This relatively new approach stresses how natural selection has molded behavior and thought patterns to help species survive.
What is evolutionary psychology?
These are external factors that affect behavior These are external factors that affect behavior. They include sensory stimulation, rewards, and the actions of others.
What are situational factors?
This research area is interested in how people change as they age?
What is developmental psychology?
These factors that affect behavior are internal These factors that affect behavior are internal. They include one’s genetic makeup, personality, and current mental state.
What are dispositional factors?
This research area is interested in how people interact with and affect each other.
What is social psychology?
This approach emphasizes the bodily structures and biochemical processes that underlie behavior.
What is the biological (psychobiological)?
This perspective believes that unconscious motives and experiences in early childhood govern personality and mental disorders.
What is the psychoanalytical perspective?
This perspective stresses the effects of environment on the behavior of humans and animals. Rewards and punishments change your actions.
What is the behavioral approach?
This approach stresses the unique nature of people and their potential for growth.
What is the humanist perspective?
This point of view is interested in the similarities and differences among groups of people based upon their ways of life.
What is the cross-cultural approach?
This perspective emphasizes the ways in which people acquire, store, and process information.
What is the cognitive perspective?
Practitioners of this early school attempted to study the basic elements or parts of consciousness.
What is structuralism?
This early school was influenced by Darwin’s concept of natural selection in its study of consciousness. It was interested in the purpose of consciousness.
What is functionalism?
This is the technique of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions.
What is introspection?
This school of thought stresses that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is gestalt?
These are the four goals of psychology.
What are to describe, explain, predict and control?
People with this title have a medical degree. (They can give you drugs
Who are psychiatrists?
These are people who have a doctoral degree, but have special training in non-drug therapies.
Who are clinical psychologists?
People in this research area are most likely to deal with core topics such as sensation, perception, learning, conditioning, motivation, and emotion.
Who are experimental psychologists?
This field of research is interested in the measurement of behavior and capacities. They usually devise tests.
What is psychometrics?