The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
100
He popularized behaviorism and became president of the American Psychological Association in 1915. His aim was to show how most human behavior and emotional reactions- other than a few inborn reflexes-resulted from conditioning.
John B. Watson
100
The philosophy and school of psychology that asserts that people are conscious, self-aware, and capable of free choice, self-fulfillment, and ethical behavior.
Humanism
100
In psychology, a specific statement about behavior or mental processes that is tested through research.
Hypothesis
100
Having to do with mental processes such as sensation and perception, memory, intelligence, language, thought, and problem solving.
Cognitive
200
What are the top 3 fields in Psychology today?
Clinical- 55%
Counseling- 14%
Educational- 10%
200
Founded the school of Structuralism. Attempted to break conscious experience down into objective sensations and subjective feelings.
Wilhelm Wundt
200
The view that people are completely free and responsible for their own behavior.
Existentialism
200
A scientific method that seeks to confirm cause-and-effect relationships by introducing independent variables and observing their effects on dependent variables
Experiment
200
A measure of an assumed effect of an independent variable.
Dependent Variable
300
What is the main focus in Gestalt Psychology?
The focus on perception and how it influences the thought process.
300
A physician who was a proponent of empiricism.
Aristotle
300
The school of psychology that defines psychology as the study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses.
Behaviorism
300
A formulation of relationships underlying observed events
Theory
300
A relationship between variables in which one variable increases as the other also increases.
Founded the Northside Center for Child Development and conducted research that showed the negative effects of school segregation on African American Children
Kenneth B. Clark
400
The school of psychology that emphasizes the uses or functions of the mind rather than the elements of experience.
Functionalism
400
A scientific method that seeks to confirm cause-and-effect relationships by introducing independent variables and observing their effects on dependent variables
Treatment
400
Deliberate looking into one’s own mind to examine one’s own thoughts and feelings.
Believed that the stream of consciousness is fluid and continuous. Founded the school of Functionalism
William James
500
The school of psychology that argues that the mind consists of three basic elements – sensations, feelings, and images – that combine to form experience.
Structuralism
500
A complete group of organisms or events from which sample is selected.
Population
500
A relationship between two variables in which one variable increases as the other decreases.