Psychologists
Studies
Vocabulary
Types of Psych.
Method/Therapy
100
Born in Switzerland; well renown to be the greatest child psychologist in the 20th Century and studied how children develop.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
A mother and child enter a room, where the child is allowed to explore. A stranger enters while the mother exits the room, leaving the child alone with the stranger. The mother then returns a few minutes after her departure, and the child's reactions are taken note of throughout the experience.
What is the Strange Solution?
100
The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake.
What is Basic Science?
100
Scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
What is Social Psychology?
100
This form of therapy seeks to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviors.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
200
Born in Denmark; studied psychoanalysis and became an analyst, alongside Anna Freud, and contributed to the developmental side of psychology.
Who is Erik Erikson?
200
This experiment explores the willingness of participants to perform acts conflicting with their own conscious, and an authoritative figure gives commands to the experimenter to shock the individual if they get a question wrong.
What is the Milgram Experiment?
200
A method of self-observation in which participants report on their thoughts and feelings.
What is Introspection?
200
The study of human behavior relating to work area and applying psychological theories and principles to organization and individuals in their place of work.
What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology?
200
A type of psychotherapy when negative thoughts about one-self and the surroundings are challenged in order to alter unwanted behavior patterns or treating mood disorders.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
300
Born in Russia; pursued science and is famously well-known to have begun the study of digestion, winning the Nobel Prize in 1904.
Who is Ivan Petrovich Pavlov?
300
Participants were randomly assigned the role of either the prisoner or the guard. This study was to see the impact on roles and behavior, however it was terminated early because of the role-induced behavior from the guards along with prisoners going mentally insane.
What is the Stanford Prison Study?
300
A research method that involved an intensive investigation of one or more participants.
What is a Case Study?
300
A branch of psychology solely focused and concerned about the study of human learning.
What is Educational Psychology?
300
The ability to help a client develop a stronger, healthier sense of self, as well as understand their feelings to gain a particular meaning toward life.
What is Humanstic Therapy?
400
Born in the United States; one of the founders of humanistic psychology, developed the theory of motivation, and brought about the resolving factors of self-actualization.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
400
2,500 American sailors are given the SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale) to assess how many life events they experienced the past six months.
What is Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale?
400
A situation in which the researcher's expectations influence that person's own behavior, and thereby influence he participant's behavior.
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
400
The integration of science, theory and knowledge for the purpose of understanding and relieving distress and to improve an individual's well-being.
What is Clinical Psychology?
400
A treatment of mental disorders or mental complications by the use of psychological methods, rather than medical means.
What is Psychotherapy?
500
Born in Austria-Hungary; founder of psychoanalysis, qualified doctor of medicine, a neurologist, and formulated the Oedipus Complex.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
500
A study that is well-known for the use of classical conditioning to intentionally condition an emotional response, which in turn created fear for a person or object.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
500
Nerves branching beyond the spinal cord and into the body.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?
500
The study of how and why human beings change over the course of their lives.
What is Developmental Psychology?
500
A system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by interacting upon the conscious and the unconscious elements of the mind.
What is Psychoanalysis?
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