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?
Long before Francis Bacon devised the Scientific Method, this Greek scholar used questioning and inquiry when critically thinking about moral and ethical concepts. His "Method" is still used in discourse today.
Who is Socrates?
This psychologist used the behaviorist approach, classical conditioning, in his study "Little Albert," focusing on learned behaviors.
Who is John B Watson?
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 focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
What is Cognitive psychology?
Antonio is feeling much healthier now that he is focusing on his positive traits and having good relationships.
What is Humanistic?
In this empiricist's book "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Associatism", this philosopher discusses how ideas can become associated (related) in 3 ways.
Who is David Hume?
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
Abraham Maslow's theory is a framework for human motivation that involves five different levels.
What is the Hierarchy of Needs
This approach emphasizes the role of motivation in thought and behavior. Concepts such as self-actualization and free will are essential to this perspective.
What is the Humanistic approach?
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
This American psychologist was an early follower of Darwin, rejecting structuralism, and went on to focus on how behaviors and mental activity helped a person adapt to their environment.
Also known for coining the phrase " Stream of Consciousness".
Who is William James?
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, the self, and God, was innate. He also established the idea " I think, therefore I am."
Who is René Descartes?