Terms
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychology?
Started by Edward Titchner. Breaks down conscious experience into objective and subjective sensations
What is structuralism?
Created the theory of natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
The year Rider was founded
What is 1865?
Two types of this include retrograde and anterograde
What is amnesia?
The process that includes a question, a hypothesis, designing an experiment, collecting data, analyzing data, and reporting the findings
What is the Scientific Method?
Focuses on direct observations and behavior. Was influenced by Charles Darwin
What is Functionalism?
Put a rat in a box to see, if reinforced, it would pull a lever
Who is BF Skinner?
The school colors for Rider
What are Cranberry and White?
Type of experiment where a researcher does not intervene with the subjects
What is Observational?
Focused on experimentation with learning and reinforcements with different stimuli
What is Behaviorism?
Responsible for the “Little Albert Experiment”
Who is John Watson?
The amount of campuses Rider has
What is 2?
The philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge is inborn
What is nativism?
Focused on perception and its influence on thinking and problem solving. Created sensation ≠ perception
What is Gestalt psychology?
The founder of modern psychology
Who is Willhelm Wundt?
The number of clubs and organizations Rider has
What is 150?
The view that knowledge is gained through experience
What is Empiricism?
Believes behavior is controlled by mental processes and focuses on intelligence, thinking, language, memory, and decision making
What is cognitive psychology?
Believed knowledge is gained through experience
Who is Aristotle?
The first president of Rider. Also, the man sitting on a bench outside of the Bart Luedeke Center (BLC)
Who is Andrew J. Rider?