Early Pioneers
The father of Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The tendency to save processing capacity by taking shortcuts.
What is a cognitive miser?
Psychology focused on the "optimal" performance of athletes
What is sports psychology?
The scientific study of mental processes and behavior
What is psychology?
The variations among people on physical or psychological dimensions are called:
What are individual differences?
The psychologist that invented the foot-ped trash can, refrigerator door shelving and the L-shaped kitchen.
Who is Lillian Gilbreth?
The tendency to give greater weight to initial information and to not sufficiently adjust one's thinking after receiving additional information.
What is the anchoring bias
Psychology that is focused on how our brain communicates with the rest of our body.
Biological psychology or neuroscience
Any information collected through formal observation or measurement
What is data?
Model of mental illness that considers a combination of factors
What is the bio-psycho-socio-cultural model of mental illness?
Had more women complete their psychology doctorates under him at Cornell than any other male psychologist in his generation
Who is Edward Titchener?
Any procedure for conducting an investigation that relies upon experimentation and systematic observation.
What is the empirical method?
Focuses on how an individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by social environments and the presence of others
What is social psychology?
research that uses existing research
What is archival research?
Psychology values diversity, promotes equity, and fosters inclusion in pursuit of a more just society is an example of a _______________in psychology
What is a theme?
The psychologist who founded the foundation of the lie detector work and WonderWoman--the character and comic strip
Who is William Marston?
Area of psychology that focuses on understanding human behavior, emotions and mental states as they relate to the operation and control of flight systems
Specialty in psychology that focuses on the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of psychological disorders
What is clinical psychology?
The set of assumptions, rules and procedures that scientists use to conduct empirical research
The them on diversity and equity in pursuit of a more just society is heavily influenced by his entity established in 1945
What is the United Nations (UN)
Psychologists who played a significant role in dismantling segregation lawsin the US
Who are Mamie and Kenneth Clark
The famous study conducted by Walter Mischel and his colleagues where they tested children on how well they could delay gratification.
The Marshmallow test
Specialty that involves researching mental processes including reasoning, thinking, problem solving, memory, perception, mental imagery and language
What is cognitive psychology?
Name 3 phenomena (biases & effects) that prevent humans from being more accurate in their interpretation of data and events
What are:
self-serving bias
false-consensus effect
hindsight bias
Psychologists strive to benefit those with whom they work and take care to do no harm" is an example of which ethical principle in psychology.
What is beneficence and nonmaleficence?