Terminology
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The scientific study of thought and behavior

What is Psychology?

100
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Also the single largest discipline in Psych.
What is clinical psychology?
100
A clinically based approach to understanding and treating psychological disorders; assumes that that the unconscious mind is the most powerful force behind thought and behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
100
The scientist best known for his work regarding evolution (especially with tortoises)
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Psychologist who introduced the psychoanalytic theory of behavior. Also had a wierd obsession with repressed sexual urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200

The brain is made up of billions of these cells.

What are cells?

200
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study of how living among others influences thought, feeling, and behavior.
What is Social Psychology?
200
The 19th century school of psychology that argued that breaking down experience into its elemental parts offers the best way to understand thought and behavior.
What is structuralism?
200
A feedback process whereby nature favors one design over another because it has an impact on reproduction.
What is natural selection.
200
Man known as the "father of Psychology." His name is alliterative.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
19th century approach to treating the mentally ill with dignity in a caring environment.
What is Moral Treatment?
300
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study of what makes people unique and the consistencies in people's behavior across time and situations.
What is Personality Psychology?
300
A school of psychology that proposed that psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable behavior, not ideas, thoughts, feelings, or motives.
What is Behaviorism?
300
Inherited solutions to ancestral problems that have been selected for because they contribute in some way to reproductive success.
What are adaptations?
300
This man is known as the founder of Behaviorism. Shares the same last name as Sherlock Holmes' assistant.
Who is John B. Watson?
400
The main method of investigation for structuralists; it involves looking into one's own mind for information about the nature of conscious experience.
What is Introspection?
400
The branch of Psychology that blends psychology, law, and criminal justice.
What is Forensic Psychology?
400
A theory of psychology that focuses on personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching one's highest potential.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
400
Branch of psychology that studies human behavior by asking what adaptive problems it may have solved for our early ancestors.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
400
Main proponent for the humanistic approach (emphasizing personal growth), published text "Client-Centered Therapy." Shares the name of the TV show host who asked "Won't you be my neighbor?"
Who is Carl Rogers?
500
The view that all knowledge and thoughts come from experience. Similar to the title of the 5th Star Wars movie.
What is Empiricism?
500
The branch of Psychology concerned with the application of psychological concepts & questions to work settings.
What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology?
500
The most common theoretical orientation utilized in therapy. Combines two branches of Psychology, thus the name.
What is Cognitive Behavioral?
500
Structures or features that perform a function that did not arise through natural selection. Also called the by-products of evolution.
What are exaptations?
500

Psychologist best known for conceptualization of the stages of growth leading to personal fulfillment. Best known for his "hierarchy of needs"

Who is Abraham Maslow?

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