Name of the Game
The scientific study of the mind and behavior
What is psychology?
Scientific study of development across a lifespan
What is Developmental psych?
Known as the father of psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Adding OR removing something to DECREASE a behavior
What is positive/negative consequence?
Psychology fits into this category
What is a social science?
The focus on observing and controlling behavior
What is behaviorism?
Focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior
What is clinical psychology?
Known for his study on behaviorism, using his "Skinner box"
B.F. Skinner
Adding OR removing something to INCREASE a behavior
What is positive/negative reinforcement?
A process in which someone examines their own conscious experience as objectively as possible
Introspection
The focus on understanding the conscious experience through introspection
What is structuralism?
Study of how biology influences behavior
What is biopsychology?
Believed that the unconscious mind stored feelings and urges that were key to understanding and treating patients
Sigmund Freud
The correct order of the scientific method
What is observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, result?
Focused on how mental processes help humans adapt to their environment.
What is functionalism
The school of thought that studies the human mind and behavior as a whole, rather than breaking it down into individual parts.
Hint: The brain uses short cuts to process what we see
What is Gesalt psychology?
Study of cognitions (thoughts) and their relationships to experiences and actions
What is cognitive psychology?
Believed that psychology's purpose was to study the function of behavior.
Established functionalism
Who are William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Pierce
A learning process where you automatically react to a previously harmless signal because your brain has learned to associate it with something else
What is classical conditioning?
Broad explanation of explanations for some aspect of the natural world, consistently supported by evidence
What is a theory?
The school of thought that follows that human behavior, personality, and mental health are driven by unconscious thoughts, hidden desires, and childhood memories
What is psychoanalytic theory?
The practical use of psychology within the legal and criminal justice systems
What is forensic psychology?
Created the Hierarchy of Needs, which motivate behavior
Who is Abraham Maslow?
A psychological learning process where our voluntary behaviors are shaped by their consequences
What is operant conditioning?
The name of Miss Bertoli's orange, family cat
Who is Saint?