Famous People
Types of Psychologists
Approaches in Psychology
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
Two psychologists that support the humanistic approach to psychology?
Who are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
100
A psychologist who works mainly in mental hospitals, private offices, and prisons, who helps people with their personal problems
What is a Clinical psychologist?
100
an approach that believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
What is the humanistic approach?
100
A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings
What is introspection
100
A behaviorist who introduced the concept of reinforcements and wrote the Utopian novel WALDEN TWO
Who is B.F. Skinner?
200
The first modern psychologist
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
A psychologist that works in schools and offices, and advises and assists people with problems of everyday life
What is a counseling psychologist?
200
An approach that analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
What is the Behavioral approach
200
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes in humans and animals
What is psychology
200
The vast majority of psychologists study...
What are everyday behaviors and feelings
300
The psychologist who devised the personality test
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
300
A psychologist who studies sensation, perception, learning, motivation, and emotion in carefully controlled laboratory conditions
What is an experimental psychologist?
300
An approach that studies how the brain, nervous system, hormones and genetics influence our behavior
What is the biological approach
300
A complex explanation based on findings from many studies
What is a theory?
300
the idea that the mind and body are separate and distinct
What is dualism?
400
Believes that unconscious motivations are at the heart of behavior
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
A psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn
What is an educational psychologist?
400
An approach that looks at unconscious motives and conflicts and how they determine behavior
What is the psychoanalytic approach
400
an assumption, or educated guess, about behavior that is tested through scientific resesarch
What is a hypothesis?
400
The four goals of psychology
What are Description, Explanation, Prediction,and Influence?
500
The psychologist who identified conditioned reflexes
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
500
a psychologist who works in a business setting or in the government to study the effects of the environment on people
What is an Environmental Psychologist
500
An approach that looks at how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how it influences behavior
What is the cognitive approach?
500
Scientists who study the mind and behavior of humans and animals. They are trained to observe, analyze, evaluate and treat behavior.
What are psychologists
500
A general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized
What is the scientific method?
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