What is Psychology
Psychology is the study of these two things.
What are the mind and behavior?
This school of psychology focused on understanding conscious experience through introspection.
What is structuralism?
Sigmund Freud developed this approach, which focused on the unconscious and childhood experiences.
What is psychodynamic psychology?
This domain focuses on thoughts and their relationship to experiences and actions.
What is the cognitive domain?
This subfield applies psychology to industrial and organizational settings.
What is industrial-organizational psychology?
This means using a person's own observations of their conscious experiences to study the mind. (Looking inward.)
What is introspection?
Wilhelm Wundt is most closely associated with this early school of psychology.
What is structuralism?
According to Freud's theory, these three interact to influence personality.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
This domain focuses on how we change, adapt and progress psychologically over time.
What is the developmental domain?
This subfield applies psychology to the justice system.
What is forensic psychology?
This field explores how our biology influences behavior and includes behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychology.
What is biopsychology?
This school emphasized how mental activities help an organism adapt to its environment.
What is functionalism?
Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner are important figures associated with this approach.
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What is behaviorism
This domain studies how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others.
What is the social and personality domain?
This subfield focuses on the interactions between mental and emotional factors and physical performance.
What is sport and exercise psychology?
This field explores how human behavior evolved.
What is evolutionary psychology?
William James was an important figure associated with this school of psychology.
What is functionalism?
Unlike behaviorism, this approach acknowledges internal mental states and studies processes such as memory, language, and thinking.
What is cognitive psychology?
This domain includes abnormal psychology, clinical psychology, and health psychology.
What is the mental and physical health domain?
This type of behavior & conditioning is associated with a stimulus and a response - it is involuntary (Pavlov's dog).
What is classical conditioning?
This interdisciplinary area examines both the physiological aspects of sensory systems and the psychological experience of sensory information.
What are sensation and perception?
This theory of perception says that although sensory experiences can be broken into individual parts, people often respond to how those parts relate to each other as a whole.
What is Gestalt theory?
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers were important figures in this approach, which emphasized the potential for good that is innate to humans.
What is humanistic psychology?
Name all five psychological domains presented in the slides.
What are biological, cognitive, developmental, social/personality, and mental/physical health?
This type of behavioral conditioning is associated with a voluntary action (a choice) and a consequence (ex. studying and getting a good grade).
What is operant conditioning?