Category One
Refers to a highly specialized and relatively uncommon form of therapy
What is Psychoanalysis
Based on objective, verifiable evidence-not just opinions of experts and authorities, as we often find in nonscientific fields
What is Scientific Component of Psychology?
Personnel selection, talent management, and in tailoring the work environment to maximize both productivity and morale.
What is Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (I/O Psychologists)?
Unsupported psychological beliefs masquerading as scientific truth
What is Pseudo-psychology?
Type of bias has a tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs or expectations while ignoring evidence that does not
What is Emotional Bias?
Simple Psychology definition
What is the Study of the Mind
Performs research to create new psychological knowledge.
What is Experimental Psychologists?
Help athletes improve their performance by planning effective practice sessions, enhancing motivation, and learning to control emotions under pressure.
What is Sports Psychology?
Daily Horoscope
Fortune Telling
Supposed power of subliminal messages
What are three examples of Pseudo-Psychology?
A testimonial proclaiming the dramatic effect of a new program
What is Anecdotal Evidence?
Mental Process that involves thinking, feeling, and desire
What is Internal Mental Process
Focus on teaching but may conduct limited research
What is Teachers of Psychology?
Expert in teaching and Learning, Deal with issues impacting learning, family or personal crisis influencing school performance or social conditions
What is School Psychologists?
What is the source?
Is the claim reasonable or extreme?
What is the evidence?
Could bias contaminate the conclusion?
Does the reasoning avoid common fallacies?
Does the issue require multiple perspectives?
What is Six Steps of Critical Thinking?
The psychological perspective that searches for the cause of behavior in the functional genes, the brain and nervous system, and the endocrine system
What is Biological Perspective?
Behaviors that include talking, smiling, and running
What is External Behaviors
Knowledge develop by experimental psychologists to tackle human problems
What is Applied Psychologists?
Provide psychological expertise to legal and judicial system
What is Forensic Psychologists?
Type of bias has a tendency to make judgments based on attitude and feeling rather than on the basis of rational analysis of the evidence
What is Confirmation Bias?
Causation Fallacy-assuming that because two factors are related, one is causing the other.
What is a Correlation?
Experimental Psychology
Teachers of Psychology
Applied Psychologists
What are the three ways of doing Psychology?
can treat mental disorders, medical specialties, not part of psychology at all, hold MD
What is Psychiatry?
Aim to improve human interaction with our environment, Study ways to encourage environmental friendly behavior
What is Environmental Psychologists?
Newest field of psychology. Large number of the population is over 65 in US,
Helps older adults maintain their health & wellness, and cope with age related challenges
What is Geropsychology?
Type of Psychology holds that much human behavior arises from inherited tendencies, and the field has gained a substantial boost from the recent surge in genetic research
What is Evolutionary Psychology?