Careers in Psychology
This person can prescribe drugs to treat physical causes of psychological disorders.
Psychiatrist
Believed that mental and behavioral problems were signs of possession by demons or punishment from God.
Europeans in the Middle Ages
This perspective focuses on the physical and biological bases of behavior.
Biological Perspective
An educated guess about the outcome of research.
Hypothesis
The pathway for neural fibers traveling from the brain to the rest of the body that also controls simple reflexes.
Spinal Cord
This person focuses on the behavior of criminals and might work in a police department.
Forensic Psychologist
Described a treatment process known as psychoanalysis, which emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
This perspective is concerned with how behaviors are learned and reinforced.
Behavioral Perspective
Portion of the target population that is similar to the target population.
Sample
The central core of the brain, responsible for automatic survival functions.
Brainstem
This person helps people who have trouble adjusting to lifestyle changes, but typically not with major psychological disorders.
Counseling Psychologist
Introduced the concept of reinforcement -- when an animal is rewarded for performing an action, it is more likely to perform that action again in the future.
B.F. Skinner
This perspective focuses on what motivates humans to grow, change, and develop their personal potential.
Humanistic Perspective
Collecting data by asking questions of people in a particular group.
Surveying
Brain lobe responsible for thinking, planning, judgements, and behavior.
Frontal Lobe
This person studies how people grow and adapt at different levels/stages in their lives.
Developmental Psychologist
Credited as being the first to outline the scientific method.
Francis Bacon
This perspective focuses on mental processes like memory, thinking, problem-solving, language, and decision-making.
Cognitive Perspective
Collecting data through human or animal participants in a controlled setting.
Experimentation
The brain structure linked with memory.
Hippocampus
This person applies theories of human development to understand individual learning and inform the instructional process.
Educational Psychologist
Founded a field of psychology known as structuralism, which argues that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings.
Wilhelm Wundt
This perspective focuses on how the unconscious mind, early childhood experiences, and interpersonal relationships explain human behavior.
Psychodynamic Perspective
A type of sample in which subgroups are represented proportionally in the sample.
Stratified Sample
The brain structure responsible for coordinating voluntary movement and balance.
Cerebellum