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Psychology Subfields
Definitions
What is Psychology
100

Founder of psychoanalysis

Who is Sigmund Freud?

100

Biological, psychological, and social-cultural

What are the three levels of analysis?

100

Psychologists who help people cope with problems in living

What are counseling psychologists?

100

A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy

What is psychiatry?

100

The Greek naturalist and philosopher who theorized about learning and memory, motivation and emotion, perception and personality

Who is Aristotle?

200

Leading figure in behaviorism; best known for his work on operant conditioning

Who is B.F. Skinner?

200
Psychologists who believe that behavior spring from unconscious drives and conflicts are working from this

What is the psychodynamic perspective?

200

These study, assess, and treat troubled people

What are clinical psychologists?

200

A study method incorporating five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Retrieve, Review

What is SQ3R?

200

The first psychology lab was founded here

What is the University of Leipzig?

300

Founder of behaviorism; famous "Little Albert" experiment

Who is John B. Watson?

300

Psychologists who study the mechanisms by which observable responses are acquired and changed are working from this

What is the behavior perspective?

300

This subfield scientifically explores human strengths and human flourishings

What is positive psychology?

300

Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

What is basic research?

300

This individual aimed to discover the mind's structure by using introspection

Who is Edward Bradford Titchner?

400

Founder of analytical psychology

Who is Carl Jung?

400

This explores how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information

What is the cognitive perspective?

400

Medical doctors who provide psychotherapy and treat physical causes of psychological disorders

What are psychiatrists?

400

The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)

What is cognitive psychology?

400

This individual admitted Mary Whiton Calkins into his graduate seminar at Harvard

Who is William James?

500

Creator of Classical Conditioning

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

500

Psychologists who study how thinking an behavior vary in different situations are working from this

What is the social-cultural perspective?

500

Psychologists who are involved in this seek solutions to practical problems

What is basic research?

500

The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture

What is the Nature-Nurture Issue?

500

This English essayist had the view that "there is one thing, and only one in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external "observation;" this one thing, he said, is ourselves

Who is C.S. Lewis?

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