Fields of Psychology
Define Social Psychology.
Study of people's thoughts, feelings, behavior and actions.
Define stereotypes.
Generalized beliefs about what members of an identifiable group are like that operate as schemas when. perceiving members of those groups.
What are the different lobes of the brain.
Frontal, temporal, occipital and parietal.
What is DSM stand for and what does it do.
Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Illness; guide for diagnosis for mental disorders
What did Amber Bandura do?
Bobo doll experiment
Define Clinical Psychology.
The assessment and treatment of mental illness and psychological problems.
What is the difference between conformity and compliance.
Conformity - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to conic with a group standard.
Compliance - an act of doing as another wishes or yielding to a request or command; a tendency to yield to others
What is the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.
Brain and spinal cord; everything else
What is the difference between internal and external validity.
Internal - experiment is not internally valid
External - results of an experiment cannot be generalized
What is Erik Erickson known for?
Stage theory of psychosocial development.
Define Cognitive Psychology.
Study of how people think and their mental processes.
Explain social facilitation
The presence of others enhances our performance
What is a neuron.
A fundamental unit of the nervous system.
What is the difference between PhD and PsyD
PhD - research, academic teaching
PsyD - emphasizes assessment and therapeutic models and research; more hands on clinical training
What is B.F Skinner known for.
operant conditioning
Define Biopsychology.
Study of biological mechanisms of behavior and mental processes.
What is the Milgram Study.
The study of people to see the tendency to obey authority figures; how far will people go into violence, even though it violates values and ethics, such as commands to harm innocent strangers.
What is the amygdala involved in.
Learning and memory.
What are the umbrella terms of Anxiety Disorders (5/7)?
Social anxiety disorder, specific phobia, separation anxiety disorder, panic order, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, selective mutism
What is John B. Watson's nick name.
"Father of Behaviorism"
Name 5 fields/branches of psychology other than social, clinical, cognitive, neuropsychology and biopsychology.
Forensic, health, school, educational, sport, abnormal, counseling, industrial, experimental, evolutionary, etc.
What is the scapegoat hypothesis
Prejudice arises from a need to blame others for our problems; cycles through frustration to aggression and can be display onto minority groups.
What is the cerebellum involved in.
Motor learning, movement, balance, and posture.
PTSD diagnostic criteria (name 4 things)
exposure to traumatic event, recurrent and persistent symptoms, intrusion, avoidance, arousal, distress
Who was the first woman president of American Psychological Association.
Mary Whiton Calkins