Areas of Psychology
Which area focuses on providing continuing and comprehensive mental and behavioral health care for individuals and families?
Clinical Psychology
Who is the father of psychology?
Wilhem Wundt
What is Operant Conditioning based on?
Based on the idea that we can increase or decrease a certain behavior by adding a consequence
What is Scientific Knowledge?
Empirical studies
What is Memory?
The retention of information.
Which area focuses on studying children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods, cognitive development, and aptitude assessment?
Educational Psychology
Who discovered Classical Conditioning with the use of dogs?
Ivan Palvov
What does ‘tabula rasa’ mean?
A blank slate
What does research mean in a scientific study?
All the people the researcher wishes to know about
How many pieces of information does short term memory hold?
7
Which area focuses on emphasizing the application of research and experimentation in other areas of psychology to the legal arena?
Forensic Psychology
Who discovered the world of Behaviorism?
John B. Watson
What is Parsimony?
The principle that the simplest explanation of an event or observation
An Institutional Review Board provides what function in research?
It decides which studies are or are not ethical.
What is the sequence of the order of stages in the three-stage model of memory?
Sensory Memory- Short Term- Long Term
Which area focuses on examining how biological, social and psychological factors influence health and illness?
Health Psychology
Who is the father of Operant Conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
What is behavior?
A simple response to environmental stimuli
What are the four stages of that scientific study goes through?
Hypothesis-Methods-Results-Interpretation
What is the difference between short-term and long-term memory?
Long-term memory can store much more information.
Which area focuses on the psychological knowledge and skills to address optimal performance and well-being of athletes?
Sports Psychology
What is the name of the German psychologist that studied and measured how memory works?
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Which field of psychology focuses on Behavior Modification?
Applied Behavior Analysis
What are theories used for?
To provide a model for understanding human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Which disease is associated with the loss of memory?
Alzheimer’s Disease