A man that is known as the 'father of psychology'
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
A study that involves generating questions and collecting data from large groups of people.
What is a survey?
A field that trys to understand the mind by focusing on the basic building blocks of understanding.
What is structuralism?
What is introspection?
What is clinical research?
Most famous for his style of listening to a patient on a lounge chair explain their dreams or feelings to try and understand their unconscious.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A type of research that attempts to understand if two variables are connected to each other.
What is Correlational Research?
What his behaviorism?
When the results of a study can be applied to a larger population.
What is generalization?
What Freud describes as the top of the Ice Berg that you can see and access.
What is the conscious?
Credited as one of the earliest philosophers to record ideas about thinking and the mind.
Who is Plato?
Studing the same group of people over an extended period of time, to understand the impact of a behavior over time.
What is longitudinal research?
A field devoted to understanding behavior as it has developed over time.
What is functionalism?
When a researcher allows their opinons to cloud their research and data.
What is bias?
Observing behaciors or actions of others in a way in which the person is not aware they are be studied.
What is Naturalistic Research?
American Psychologist that helped formally develop the theory based on Wundt's ideas about the mind.
Who is Titchener?
Studing seperate groups of people at specific age differances at the same time to understand how a behavior might impact groups over time.
What is cross-sectional research?
A field that tries to understand the mind through studing the unconscious.
What is psychodynamic?
Developed by Plato, divided into three parts. Rrepresenting the mind, the heart, and emotion.
The subset, or small group, of a larger whole that you are studing or collecting data from.
What is a sample?
The two men who are credited with developing Behaviorism as a field of Psychology.
Who are Pavlov and Watson?
Using exsisting data or research to understand something based the information you might be able to aquire.
What is archival research?
A philosophical belief that there is both a tangible and untangible part to the mind.
What is Cartesian Dualism?
First used psychology by Wundt, the process that provides emperical evidence to study or idea.
What is the scientific method?
Person who is credited with developing the Functionalism field of psychology.
Who is William James?