The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology
100
These attempt to explain our behavior and mental processes.
What are perspectives
100
Psychologist who introduces the psychoanalytic behavior. Also had a weird obsession with repressed sexual urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
The variable that should cause something to happen.
What is Independent Variable
100
What percentage of American adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year?
What is 26 percent
200
Anything we do that a psychologist can study, such as the way we walk or talk.
What is behavior
200
A perspective that focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning.
What is cognitive perspective
200
The 19th century school of psychology that argued that breaking down experience into its elemental parts offer the best way to understand thought and behavior.
What is structuralism?
200
We are not exposed to the independent variable.
What is the control group
200
The study of abnormal behavior and psychological dysfunction
What is psychopathology
300
Disorders in which a person adopts a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behavior that interferes with normal social interaction
What is personality disorder
300
A perspective that focuses on how our behavior comes from unconscious drives and conflicts.
What is psycho-dynamic perspective?
300
This man is know as the founder of Behaviorism. Shares the same last name as Sherlock Holmes' assistant.
Who is John B. Watson?
300
It changes the way I believe when the principal came into the classroom to observe. I would be guilty of
What is Participant Bias
300
A psychologist devises a test to measure anxiety. He administers this test to over 1,000 persons and learns how many people show low, medium, or high levels of anxiety. Usually the results of such tests tend to form a(n)?
What is Normal or bell-shaped curve
400
Psychologist rely on scientific research methods to find their answers, they use mathematical formulas and collect data to analyze their results.
What is scientific method?
400
The seven modern psychological perspectives.
What is psycho-dynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, bio-psychological, social-cultural and evolutionary
400
Main proponent for the humanistic approach (emphasizing personal growth), published text "Client- Centered Therapy." Shares the name of the TV show host who asked "Won't you be my neighbor?"
Who is Carl Rogers?
400
This method allows the 3rd block Psychology class to create a study to follow and track the incoming freshmen class throughout their four years of high school.
What is Longitudinal Study
400
Studies have suggested the increased rates of major depressive disorder in women may have a bias in
What is gender roles, social factors, and emotional processing.
500
These are the things that you cannot observe directly, like thoughts, feelings and dreams.
What is mental process?
500
What is the "birth year" of psychology?
What is 1879?
500
Psychologist best known for conceptualization of the stages of growth leading to personal fulfillment. Best known for his "hierarchy of needs"
Who is Abraham Maslow?
500
This school of thought went against the ideas of structuralism and states "The whole is different from the sum of its parts"
What is Gestalt Psychology
500
Rather than helping a person to successfully cope, abnormal behaviors make it more difficult for the person to meet the every day demands of life. Thus, this core feature of all abnormal behavior refers to the behavior being