Important Figures
Who is considered the father of modern psychology and established the first psychology laboratory?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The term for the approach that focuses on how mental and behavioral processes function.
What is functionalism?
This early school of thought in psychology aimed to identify the basic elements of the mind.
What is structuralism?
This is one type of career requires a masters degree.
What is a clinical psychologist?
This approach brings three different views together to discuss an individual's development.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
Conducted a famous experiment to condition a fear response into a small child.
Who is John B. Watson?
The method used by Wundt and Titchener to explore the structural elements of the human mind.
What is introspection?
The approach that believed in using smaller pieces of information to make a meaningful whole.
What is gestalt psychology?
This group overlaps with the experimental research group because most are employed by universities.
What is educational psychology?
The country where the first psychology laboratory was established by Wilhelm Wundt.
What is Germany?
He introduced structuralism and engaged people in self-reflective introspection.
Who is Edward Titchener?
Freud says that the EGO is related to this principle.
What is the reality principle?
This psychological perspective emphasized the growth potential of healthy individuals.
What is humanistic psychology?
The field of psychology that takes findings from research and uses them to diagnose, assist, and treat psychological disorders.
What is applied psychology?
This is said to describe something someone accidentally says that is out of place in the conversation. (hint: it is believed to come from the subconscious)
What is a Freudian Slip?
This major thinker in psychology believed we are all motivated by unconscious desires.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The concept of behaviour that Ian Pavlov researched by working with dog. He introduced a stimulus to get a response.
What is classical conditioning?
This school of thought emphasized the function of our thoughts and feelings.
What is functionalism?
Although not a career in psychology, this is one of the careers a bachelor of psychology can be an asset for.
What is management, business, human resources, social work, physician's assistant...?
This extremely important item to be examined by psychologists was neglected until recently, due to 90% of psychologist in Europe and North American Universities were Caucasian.
What is culture?
Founder of functionalism and author of the influential text, "Principles of Psychology".
Who is William James?
Followers of this view our behavior as a result of heredity, the nervous system and the endocrine system, and environmental impacts such as disease.
What is the biological view?
A school of thought that influenced 20th-century psychology, rejecting introspection and focusing on observable behavior.
What is behaviorism?
This is the smallest group of the three major branches of psychology.
What is experimental psychologists?
According to Sigmund Freud, these are the three components that make up the psyche and cause us to experience internal conflict in our decision making.
What is the ID, EGO, and SUPEREGO?