He had the first psych lab in Leipzig Germany and is considered the "father of psychology".
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
In the definition of psychology, 'behavior' means...
What are outward actions and reactions?
100
System of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced.
What is the scientific method?
100
Focuses on how human behavior is affected by the presence of others.
What is social psychology?
100
Wundt's student who expanded on the idea of structuralism.
Who is Edward Titchener?
200
The focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play.
What is functionalism?
200
Which perspective studies the storage and retrieval of information in the human brain?
What is cognitive psychology?
200
Studying people or animals in their natural environment.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
Relationship between two variables.
What is correlation?
200
Russian physiologist dealt with dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
300
Description, explanation, prediction, & control
What are the four goals of psychology?
300
Specialists who diagnose and treat psychological disorders most likely work in the subfield of
What is clinical psychology?
300
List the steps of the scientific method...
1. Formulate the question
2. Develop a hypothesis
3. Test the hypothesis
4. Draw conclusions
5. Report the results
300
Study of the physical changes in the brain and nervous system during thinking.
What is cognitive neuroscience?
300
American scholar who focused on how the mind "functions".
Who is William James?
400
Theory and therapy based on Freud's ideas, emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts.
What is psychoanalysis?
400
These two psychology perspectives were part of the historical beginnings of psychology.
What is humanism & behaviorism?
400
The group that receives no treatment or an ineffective treatment in an experiment.
What is a control group?
400
Perspective that focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share.
What is evolutionary psychology?
400
He termed the phrase, "self-actualization" and studied the humanistic perspective.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
500
Modern version of psychoanalysis, focused on the development of a sense of self & the discovery of other motivations.
What is psychodynamic perspective?
500
B.F. Skinner became the new leader of this field, and continued research in classical conditioning.
What is the behavioral perspective?
500
The name of a study in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control group and who is in the experimental group.
What is double-blind study?
500
A deliberate manipulation of a variable to see if corresponding changes in behavior result, allowing the determination of cause-and-effect relationships.
What is an experiment?
500
Which group of three psychologists shared similar ideas about human behavior?