Famous Psychologists
Considered the father of Psychanalytical Psychology
Who is Sigmund Freud
These professionals help athletes refine their focus on competition goals, become more motivated, and learn to deal with the anxiety and fear of failure that often accompany competition.
Who are Sports Psychologists
A scientific theory that explains how organisms develop adaptations and how those adaptations become more common over time.
What is Darwinism/ What is the Theory of Evolution?/ Natural Selection
This perspective focuses solely on observable learned behaviors.
What is Behaviorism?
Mike’s fear of the dark is a survival instinct that his ancestors also had.
What is Evolutionary?
This culture gave us the word "Psyche" meaning soul or mind.
Who are the Greeks?
His theory of classical conditioning was developed using dogs and unrelated stimuli.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
These professionals explore the relationships between biology and behavior. They use SPECT and MRIs to study disorders and explain what is happening in the brain.
Who are Neuropsychologists/ behavioral neuropsychologists?
The word meaning "Based on, concerned with, or verifiable (proven) by observation or experience rather than theory or logic."
Empirical
This school of thought looks at human behavior across different cultures.
What is Social-Cultural psychology?
Antonio is feeling much healthier now that he is focusing on his positive traits and having good relationships.
What is Humanistic?
Which Greek philosopher used a kind of questioning inquiry that predates the scientific method?
Who is Socrates?
The founder of the first perspective, structuralism, used introspection when conducting research using controlled methods.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
These professionals apply psychological principles to legal issues. Their expertise is often essential within the judicial system.
Who are Forensic Psychologists?
The belief that the mind (soul) can exist separately from the body.
What is dualism?
The study of how the theory of evolution can explain physiological processes.
What is Evolutionary Psychology
Bianca has learned that she should not pull her sister's hair after being sent to her room numerous times for this behavior.
What is Behavioral?
Like Aristotle, this English philosopher saw the mind as a "Blank Slate".
Who is John Locke?
The humanistic perspective focuses on the individual as a whole and seeks to find their true potential and become self-actualized. Name one of the two psychologists who were most known for this perspective.
Who is Abraham Maslow or Carl Rogers?
These professionals seek to help individuals alleviate or reduce stress, assist with diagnosing people, form treatment interventions, and assist those with severe and debilitating mental and emotional disorders.
Who are Clinical Psychologists
A learning method, developed by B.F. Skinner which uses rewards and punishments to modify voluntary behaviors
What is Operant Conditioning?
This approach emphasizes the role of motivation in thought and behavior. Concepts such as self-actualization are essential to this perspective.
What is humanism?
The approach is related to the speech parents give to their kids about jumping off a cliff because "everyone else is doing it".
What is the Socio- Cultural?
This Italian priest from the Middle Ages argued for separation of body and soul, reflecting a mind-body dualism we still use today.
St. Thomas Aquainas
He is best known for his research on children’s 4 cognitive stages of development and published "The Language and Thought of the Child" in 1923.
Who is Jean Piaget?
What are the three areas of psychology a person may work in?
What are experimental, teaching, and applied psychology.
(N) The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes
What is Introspection?
This approach's emphasis is on the unconscious mind, the underlying meaning of dreams, and the role of unresolved past life experiences.
What is Psychoanalysis
Montgomery's therapist believes his fear of dogs is influenced by a bad experience with a neighbor's dog from childhood.
What is Psychoanalysis?
This "enlightened" individual thought that some knowledge, such as geometry, self, and God, were inborn. He also established the idea " I think, therefore I am".
Rene Descartes