Contemporary Approaches
Focuses on the influences of early childhood and the unconscious mind.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior in these groups?
What are people and animals?
This refers to a small group out of a population that is studied.
What is a sample?
This refers to children putting in new information to an existing schema.
What is assimilation?
Eating disorders and identity crises are more common in these types of societies?
What are industrialized societies?
Focuses on how a person thinks and processes information.
What is the cognitive approach?
The type of science that involves conducting research.
What is basic science?
This method involves gathering a lot of information in a quick and easy way from a large group of people.
What is a survey?
This is when children modify an existing schema due to learning new information.
What is accommodation?
For teenagers, signs of this may include hyperactivity, anger, rebellion, and the use of drugs and alcohol.
Focuses on a person's ability to have free will in their quest to achieve their personal best.
When you look at psychology as a profession, it can be broken down into these two fields.
What are applied and experimental psychologists?
This refers to a researcher unconsciously impacting the results of an experiment.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
In this type of identity category, a person accepts what others want them to do without considering their own wants and needs.
What is foreclosure?
Focuses on how behavior is learned through rewards and punishments.
What is Behaviorism?
These are the most common type of applied psychologists.
What are clinical and counseling psychologists?
This refers to the degree of relatedness between two variables.
What is a correlation?
According to Kohlberg, this significantly influences moral development.
What is cognitive development?
What is to treat them as equals or to not treat them like a child?
Focuses on how society, family, and religion impact a person's behavior.
What is sociocultural?
This type of science provides coping strategies to help a person deal their problems.
What is applied science?
What is a double-blind experiment?
According to Piaget, the growth of intelligence involves these two changes.
What is quantitative and qualitative changes?
This belief may cause a teenager to engage in risky and dangerous behavior since they feel nothing bad will happen.
What is the illusion of invulnerability?