Psychology Heavy Hitters
I introduced the Psychoanalytic Theory of Behavior. I also specialized in repressed sexual urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The study of science AND behavior.
What is Psychology?
A branch of psychology that is concerned with the study and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. This branch of psychology is also the single largest discipline within psychology.
What is Clinical Psychology?
This perspective focus on how a person thinks and how a person takes in, processes, stores, and retrieves information. You know, mental processes.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
I study the growth & devlopment of a person from birth to death.
What is a Developmental Psychologist?
No matter what anyone says, I am the Father of Psychology.
Who is Wilhem Wundt?
The main method of investigation for Structuralists that involves looking into one's own mind for information about the nature of a conscious experience.
What is introspection?
When one variable increases, the other variable decreases.
What is a negative correlation?
This perspective focuses on the way that people strive to reach their full potential.
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
These types of psychologists diagnose and treat neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health disorders and make-up approximately half of all psychologists.
What is Clinical Psychologist?
I am the founder of Behaviorism. I also share the same last name as Sherlock Holmes' assistant.
Who is John B. Watson?
Sometimes we can be tricked into remembering events that never happened, or change the details of things that really did happen.
What are false memories?
What is a treatment group or experimental group?
This perspective is illustrated by the fact that the winners of this game of Jeopardy will be rewarded with a surprise.
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
I use psychological principles and research methods to solve problems in the workplace and to improve the quality of life for employees. I also study workplace productivity, management style, and employee work style.
What is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist?
I am a founder of Humanistic Psychology and strive to be the best form of me.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
A standardized procedure used in research to make observations, gather data, formulate hypothesis, test predictions, and interpret results.
What is the scientific method?
The model that many psychologists use to understand human behavior. There are three components.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
So, I was talking to my therapist and realized that I am very helpful today because, as a child, my parents would never accept my offers to help. What perspective did this therapist use to help this client?
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
I use my psychological skills and knowledge to address optimal performance and well-being of athletes. I also explore the developmental and social aspects of sports participation and the systems related to sports settings and organizations.
What is a Sort Psychologist?
I am the first black man to receive a PhD in Psychology, and sometimes am called the "Father of Black Psychology."
Who is Francis Cecil Sumner, PhD?
The part of the brain that plays a part in impulse control, judgment, language, memory, motor function, problem solving and organization, and emotional control. This part of the brain was damaged in Phineas Gage.
What is the frontal lobe?
A tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceived notions.
Who is confirmation bias?
When I was 16, I began to smoke cigarettes around friends, but I would never smoke around my parents. This perspective would help a client understand their thoughts and behavior related to smoking in different settings and with different people.
What is the Socio-Cultural Perspective?
I focus on how mental, emotional, and social factors impact a person's physical well-being.
What is a Health Psychologist?