Famous Figures in Psychology
Known as the father of Sociology?
Who is Auguste Comte?
This study was conducted by Zimbardo at a university in California and has come under fire more recently for having exaggerated results.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
help people with psychological disorders adjust to the demands of life
Clinical Psychology
The APA stands for
What is the American Psychological Association
What causes a runner's high
Endorphins
American who took on the functionalist approach
Who is William James
In 1997, 39 members of the ____ ____ cult committed mass suicide because they thought that, in losing their bodies, they would be picked up by a spaceship traveling with the Hale-Bopp comet that was passing near the earth.
What is Heavens Gate
Individuals working within this field of psychology are often found working within the judicial system.
What is forensic psychology?
Refers to standards that guide individuals to identify good, desirable or acceptable conduct
What is ethics
What two parts make up the central nervous system?
What is the brain and spinal cord
He developed the principle of conditioning to explain how people and animals learn some behaviors instead of others. Basically, behaviorists believed that if a behavior receives reinforcement, someone will continue to do it, while if it receives punishment, the person will stop.
Who is B.F Skinner
What perspective says that genetics play a large role in shaping behavior?
the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
What is Behaviorism
What is it called when researchers have to explain why they lied to their participants
What is debriefing
The social heritage of people - including learned patterns of thinking, feeling, and action is known as
What is culture
developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality development, which argued that personality is formed through conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind: the id, ego, and superego.
Which perspective says that our behavior is shaped by how society dictates us to act?
What is socio-cultural
A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings
What is Introspection?
I carry out research on chemical weapons. I test some chemicals on people. I don't tell them that the chemicals could burn their skin. Which ethical research rule have I not respected?
What is informed consent
This individual divided society between the “haves” and the “have nots” and founded the conflict theory
Who is Karl Marx
I am considered the father of psychology and had the first psychological research lab in Leipzig.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This study had individuals engage in a "visual test" to determine which lines were longer than the others. During this study, confederates would purposefully select the wrong line to see if the participant would go along with the wrong answer.
What is the Asch conformity study?
an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
What is Case Study
debate is one of the oldest issues in psychology. The debate centers on the relative contributions of genetic inheritance and environmental factors to human development. ... Genetic traits handed down from parents influence the individual differences that make each person unique.
What is nature vs nurture
a statement that attempts to explain why things are and happened the way they do.
What is a theory