psychology that studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence our behavior
What is cognitive psychology?
100
psychology that focuses on biological factors and their influence on human behavior
What is biological psychology?
100
Russian behaviorist who experimented with dogs and conditioned them to salivate in response to a tuning fork sound
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
Austrian physician who was more interested in the unconscious mind; developed free association, dream analysis, psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
an assumption or prediction about behavior or an educated guess about the relationship between two variables that is tested through scientific research - what you guess or predict will happen BEFORE you perform an experiment
What is a hypothesis?
200
psychology that analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
What is behaviorism?
200
psychology that studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts
What is psychoanalysis?
200
English mathematician and scientist who studied how heredity, or inheritable traits, affected humans
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
200
German who proposed that psychological experience is composed of compounds similar to chemical compounds; he was a structuralist who developed introspection
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
the pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake
What is basic science?
300
psychology that deals with the study of function (rather than the structure) of consciousness
What is functionalism?
300
psychology that explores the effects of different groups on their members
What is social psychology?
300
behavioral psychologist who was responsible for the Little Albert experiment; thought psychology should concern itself only with the observable facts of behavior
Who is John B. Watson?
300
behavioral psychologist who introduced the concept of reinforcement; author of Walden Two, a book about his idea of Utopia
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
a general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized - steps you follow when you are performing experiments
What is the scientific method?
400
psychology that studies how ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic status influence human behavior
What is sociocultural psychology?
400
perception is more than the sum of its parts, and it involves a whole pattern, or the German word for it....
What is Gestalt psychology?
400
cognitivists who focused on how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how this information influences our thinking, language, problem solving, and creativity
Who are Piaget, Chomsky, and Festinger?
400
humanists who described human nature as evolving and self-directed; believed humans are not controlled by events in the environment or by unconscious forces
Who are Maslow, Rogers, and May?
400
discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals; using what you have learned
What is applied science?
500
psychology that deals with the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences
What is structuralism?
500
psychology that believes that each person has the freedom in directing his or her own future and achieving personal growth
What is humanism?
500
functionalist, known as the Father of Psychology in the U.S.; wrote the first psychology textbook and taught the first class in psychology at Harvard University
Who is William James?
500
was refused acceptance into Harvard University, but ended up studying under William James, while every other student dropped the class in protest; became a professor of psychology at Wellesley College and the first president of the American Psychological Association
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
500
memory aids, such as acronyms (HOMES, ROY G. BIV, PEMDAS), songs, or other devices to help us remember