Notable People
Disorders
History
Important Terms
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Considered the "Father of Modern Psychology", this man's most famous ideas focus on subconscious thought repression and talk therapy.

Sigmund Freud

100

The disorder(s) identified by intense feelings of sadness and hopelessness.

Depression/ Depressive Disorders

100

A surgery historically used to treat mental health, which involves destroying the connections between parts of the brain.

Lobotomy

100

The scientific study of the mind, mental processes, and human behaviors.

Psychology

100

A condition that affects a person's thoughts, feelings, moods, and/or behaviors, AND negatively impacts their life in some way.

Mental Disorder

200

This Russian scientist is famous for his experiment that trained dogs to expect food, when a certain bell was rung.

Ivan Pavlov

200

The disorder(s) identified by intense feelings of worry and nervousness in certain situations.

Anxiety/ Anxiety disorders

200

Claims/beliefs that appear or attempt to appear scientific and factual, but are actually not based in scientific reasoning.

Pseudoscience

200

A subconscious, illogical belief that impacts a person's thoughts, feelings, or actions. 

Bias

200

The physical medicine specialty which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. 

Psychiatry

300

This psychologist spent his career examining what motivates people. He is most well-known for his Hierarchy of Needs pyramid.

Abraham Maslow

300
A condition defined by a person's continued use of substance(s) despite the negative consequences that come from their usage.

Substance Use Disorders (Addiction)

300

A therapy method created by Sigmund Freud that focuses on unconscious thoughts and feelings as the reasons for psychological issues.  

Psychoanalysis


300

A type of learning that uses rewards or punishments to increase or decrease the connection between something and the response to that thing. 

Conditioning

300

A repeatable process for exploring a question in a way that avoids bias, which is marked by intentional observing, experimenting, and measuring.

Scientific Method

400

This psychologist changed psychology in the early 1900's by developing the belief that we should study a person's actions, rather than their mind.

John Watson

400

A disorder that is marked by uncontrollable, distressing thoughts, and a strong urge to do certain behaviors repeatedly (often in response to the distressing thought).

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

400

One of the newest fields within psychology, which focuses on finding and improving a person's strengths and abilities, rather than the traditional focus around the person's failures and problems.

Positive Psychology

400

Methods/strategies used by psychologists to help people change. Includes different therapies, medications, teaching them, etc.


Interventions

400

The front-most section of the brain, which is responsible for "higher" thinking, including self-control, problem solving, social knowledge, and more. 

Frontal Lobe

500

One of the first scientist to study the development of children. He created a theory that children go through multiple stages of growth before being capable of thinking like an adult.

Jean Piaget

500

A condition relating to severe trauma, where a person has two or more distinct identities which often have their own personality traits, names, personal history, etc.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously called Multiple Personality Disorder)

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These historic institutions acted as mental hospitals most widely in operation from around 1750 - 1950. These facilities are infamous for "treatment" methods that are considered unethical, inhumane, and barbaric by modern standards.

Asylum

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A psychological school of thought that focuses on studying behaviors, under the belief that behaviors are more accurate and objective than what people say their thoughts or feelings are.

Behaviorism

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The fairly modern psychological model that believes mental health and illness need to be viewed from the biological, the psychological, and the social-economic perspective to be fully understood.

Biopsychosocial Model

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