Perspectives
The Brain
Psychologists
Fields of Psychology
All of the above
100
This theory believes that you learn from watching other people, and the positive or negative reaction they receive from their actions.
What is Behaviorism?
100
The visual processing area of the brain.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
100
This psychologist focused on observation behaviors and believed that humans and animals learn through association.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
100
This perspective in psychology looks at decision-making.
What is cognition?
200
This theory believes we can all can reach our fullest potential with the help of others unconditional positive regard.
What is humanism?
200
controls the hearing area of the brain. It also holds the are that controls language comprehension and expression.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
This psychologist believes our childhood experiences and unconscious, influence our motives, which shows in our personality and behavior.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
This looks at the the phases of life from infancy to old age.
What is developmental psychology?
200
The founder of modern psychology who believed that the time difference between tasks measured the speed of mental processes.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
This theory focuses on the functions on the brain and the influence of genetics on behavior?
What is biology?
300
This cauliflower shaped area of the brain that controls movement, balance and posture.
What is the cerebellum?
300
This scientist believed that mental process evolve over time.
Who is Charles Darwin?
300
This evaluates defendants and their mental competency for legal issues.
What is forensic psychology.
300
A stimulus-response that requires no learning.
What is an unconditioned response?
400
This theory states that to understand each other we must first understand their cultural differences.
What is socio-cultural?
400
This controls your body temperature, hunger, thirst, appetite, digestion and sleep.
What is the hypothalamus?
400
This psychologist introduced the idea of the hierarchy of needs and self-actualization.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
400
This looks at the mental, emotional and behavioral disorders.
What is clinical psychology?
400
According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, this is the highest level of the triangle in which people will reach. Ex. Inner Potential and Purpose.
What is self-actualization?
500
This theory focuses on how past experiences , which may have been repressed, impact our current experiences.
What is psycho-analytical or psycho-dynamic?
500
The gray matter that covers both brain hemispheres. It also controls your thinking, voluntary movements, language, reasoning and perception.
What is the cerebral cortex?
500
This psychologist modified the ideas of behaviorism to focus on learning through reward and observation.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
500
This looks at community issues such as teen pregnancy, substance abuse and the effects of diet and exercise on stress.
What is health psychology?
500
In this stage in the sleep cycle, there is an increase in heart rate, breathing, BP and temperature.
What is REM or Rapid Eye Movement?
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