This field studies things like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia.
What is Abnormal (or Clinical) Psychology?
This perspective would look at the rewards and punishments in an individual's life, as well as the role models whose behavior they might be copying.
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
This is a career that involves supporting people that does not require a graduate degree or a license.
What is a Case Worker or Case Management?
This is how psychology studies behavior.
What is the Scientific Method?
This is the most basic research goal, requiring only a single variable.
What is describing?
What is observation?
This field studies how we think, how memory and language work, and other aspects of information processing.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
This perspective is most likely to provide medication for mental illness.
What is the Physiological Perspective?
These are the licenses you can get at the Master's level which will allow you to either work at an agency or open up your own practice.
What are LCSW and MFT?
This is who psychology studies.
What is humans, animals, insects - anything that moves?
This is required to predict behavior.
What is two variables, or correlation?
This is my informed guess about what's going to happen in my research.
What is a hypothesis?
This field would be interested in how college students change over the four years they spend in school.
What is Developmental Psychology?
According to this perspective, we are basically wild animals trying to function in civilized society.
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
These are the degrees at the doctoral level that have training to be therapists.
What are PsyDs and PhDs in Clinical or Counseling Psychology?
This is what consitutes behavior for modern psychologists
What is action, thought, and feeling?
This is what we need to be careful about with correlations.
What is correlation is not causation?
This is a broad understanding of how things work that is too big to ever prove, but we might find more or less support for it, and we can generate hypotheses from it.
What is a theory?
This field would be interested in what attracts people to each other.
What is Social Psychology?
This perspective recognizes the harmful effects of oppression.
What is the Sociocultural Perspective?
These people can prescribe medications for psychological disorders.
Who are general practitioners (GPs) and psychiatrists?
This is the type of research we need to conduct if we want to know causation.
What is an experiment?
Someone should do this after I find data supporting my hypothesis.
What is replication?
This field might be interested in the impacts of life experiences on the stability of characteristics like introversion/extraversion, openness to new experiences, responsibility, trustworthiness, and emotional stability.
What is Personality Psychology?
This perspective would use all of the perspectives, either as different pieces of the puzzle, or as tools in a toolbox to pull at as appropriate.
What is the Integrative Perspective?
This is the ultimate goal of science.
I should do this after I find data that fails to support my hypothesis.
What is revise my hypothesis?