Research Methods & Experiments
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Phillip Zimbardo
Branch of psychology concerned with mental processes; internal events occurring between sensory stimulation and expressive behavior
Cognitive Psychology
Swiss psychologist known for his theory of cognitive development that looked at how children develop intellectually throughout the course of childhood.
Jean Piaget
A theory of learning based on the idea that all actions are acquired through conditioning.
Behaviorism
Overseer of PSI CHI & APS; works with Cognitive Psychology
Dr. Ivan Ash
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
Hawthorne Effect
A scientific discipline which examines human behavior in capabilities in order to find the best ways to design products, equipment and systems for maximum safe, effective, satisfying use by humans
Human Factors Psychology
First female psychologist . and First APA female president; dealt with memory research
Mary Calkins
Psychology theory that identified the component of the mind; the way to learn about the brain and its functions was to break the mind down into its most basic elements; introspection
Structuralism
She has a lab where she investigated the fundamental principle of human performance and decision making in 236C MGB, and works in Human Factors
Dr. Jing Chen
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Stanley Milgram
Branch of psychology that focuses on how mental, emotional, and social factors affect a person’s physical well-being; a patient’s mental and emotional reaction to an illness or recovery
Health Psychology
The Russian physiologist best known for his discovery of classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
Psychoanalytic Theory
Female(s) for I/O Psychology department
Dr. Debra Major
Dr. Violet Xu
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
Quasi Experimental
Branch of psychology that studies the changes in human development across the lifespan.
Developmental Psychology
Austrian co-founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology; importance of the unconscious/conscious mind
Sigmund Freud
A theory based on how our mental and behavioral processes function and how they allows us to adapt, survive and flourish
Functionalism
Came from Florida International University, research focuses on the impact of identity and acculturation on psychosocial functioning among ethnic/racial minority youth, and works in developmental psych.
Dr. Alan Meca
Determines whether human research is ethical
(IRB) Institutional Review Board
Applies psychological theories and principles to organizations; focuses on increasing workplace productivity and related issues such as the physical and mental-well-being of employees.
I/O Psychology
Proved correlation doesn't prove causation
Goldberger
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Humanistic Theory
Her research focuses on risky health behaviors among emerging adults, particularly college student drinking (episodic); works in Health psych.
Dr. Abby Braitman