Vocabulary
Term that refers to carefully examining our own thoughts, or "looking within."
What is introspection?
Who is William James?
Psychologists who can help athletes with their performance problems.
Who are sports psychologists?
Observe, describe, explain, predict, control events, behavior, and mental processes
What are the goals of psychology?
Any action that people can observe or measure.
What is behavior?
Pioneer who said humans do not have free will and are guided by unconscious motives that could only be understood using psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Psychologist whose focus is to help students learn more effectively, and specifically measuring student abilities, learning, development, and test results.
What is an educational psychologist?
Something that both natural scientists and psychologists share in common.
What is the steps of scientific research?
Mental processes, such as dreams, memories, thoughts, perceptions.
What are cognitive activities?
Psychologists who supported the idea of behaviorism, that people and animals could be conditioned to react before or after a stimulus.
Who are John Watson and BF Skinner?
Psychologist who studies topics such as sensation, perception, and learning in controlled laboratory environments mainly at research universities.
What is an experimental psychologist?
Method used by psychologists to help athletes perform more effectively under pressure.
What is positive visualization?
Used to help explain mental phenomena that cannot be observed or measured directly, such as emotion, intelligence, and motivation.
What are psychological constructs?
How Europeans during the Middle Ages thought about psychological problems like confusion and agitation.
What is being possessed by a demon or "deal with the devil"?
Research on humans and other natural phenomena solely for the pursuit of knowledge, for its own sake.
What is basic research?
Psychologist who helps people deal with emotional disturbances
What is a clinical psychologist?
The branch of psychology that emphasizes that perception is more than the sum of its parts. (Do the center dots look the same?)
What is a Gestalt psychology?
Phenomenon of how experience reminds us of similar experiences of the past.
What is associationism?
Pioneer concerned with the basic elements of consciousness who started the first psychology lab in 1879 and was a structuralist.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Scientific study and psychological knowledge used to solve practical, real-world problems (ex: mental health treatment).
What is applied research?
Psychologist who studies physical, emotional, cognitive, and social changes over the life span from infancy to old age.
What is a developmental psychologist?
Seeing an apple objectively because of its shape, texture, color, or the subjective experience of the feeling of biting into an apple.
What belongs to the structuralist approach?