Important Names
Early Ideas
Experiments
Doing Psychology
Misc.
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He is often credited as the Father of Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
100
Psychology becomes a science in this century
What is mid 1800's
100
The very first psychology classes in the United States occurred at this University
What is Harvard
100
The major difference between Psychologists and Psychiatrists
- Psychiatrists can prescribe medication to patients - Psychiatrists hold MDs and have specialized training in the treatment of mental and behavioral problems - Psychology is a much more broad field
100
The word psychology comes from
It has its roots in the Greek words of “psyche,” or mind, and “-ology,” or a field of study.”
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He was a critic of Structuralism and the first American Psychologist He believed that mental process were not static. He described them as a “stream of consciousness
Who is William James?
200
This school of thought was devoted to uncovering the basic structures that make up mind and thought-looking for the elements of conscious experience. Relied heavily on objective introspection
What is Structuralism
200
To test if behaviors could be counter conditioned, a student of Watson re-created a famous experiment, this time adding the step of re-conditioning called
What is Little Peter
200
The phony or unscientific psychology which pretends to be the real thing is known as
What is Pseudo-psychology
200
Psychologists study
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes (thinking and feeling)
300
Freud believed the mind was made of three parts
What is Ego, Super Ego, ID
300
Theory that emphasized the functions of consciousness and the ways consciousness helps people adapt to their environment. Thought that psychology should explain how people adapted-or failed to adapt-to everyday life outside the laboratory
What is Functionalism
300
To prove that behaviors can be changed, Watson and his under graduate conditioned a baby to fear a rat in this experiment
What is "Little Albert"
300
This group uses the knowledge developed by experimental psychologists to address human problems such as training, equipment design and psychological treatment
What are applied psychologists
300
The science of psychology is based on objective, verifiable evidence obtained using...
What is the Scientific Method
400
Creator of "Gestalt Psychology" Gestalt being a German word for "organized whole"
Who is Max Wertheimer
400
This idea argued that a true and objective science of psychology should only deal with observable events: stimuli from the environment and the organism’s response to that stimuli. Simply put: behaviors can be measured, trained, and changed.
What is Behaviorism
400
With a filled glass of water, people will tend to grossly underestimate the amount of pennies it will take for the cup of water to over flow. This is an example of what phenomenon?
What is over confidence in our common sense and intuition
400
This group overlaps with the experimental research group because most researchers also teach, but there has been an increase in the hiring of psychology teachers
What are teachers of psychology
400
uses a set of standards to conduct a study which emphasizes careful observation and scientifically based research.
What is the empirical approach
500
He is considered the Father of Behaviorism
Who is American John B. Watson
500
The idea that mental disorders resulted from conflicts of the unconscious mind led to this
What is psychoanalysis
500
Explain the very first recorded psychological experiment -What did the experiment strive to test? -What was the hypothesis? -What were the results? -What major question comes out of this experiment
Object of experiment: To test is Egyptians were the oldest race on earth Hypothesis: If children had no opportunity to learn a language from the people around them, they would spontaneously speak the primal, inborn language of human kind Results: At age 2 children called out the becos- a phyrgian word for bread- proving Egyptians could not be the most ancient race Is Language something that is learned or innate
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These are the psychologists who do the basic research in psychology. Most are faculty members at a college or university. This is the smallest group of the three major branches of psychology.
What is Experimental psychologists
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