Foundational
Psychology Stuff
Psychology Stuff
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
Considered the most influential psychologist to this day.
Who is Freud?
Behaviors are influenced by physical functions.
What is functionalism?
Factors that change in an experiment.
What is a variable?
There are multiple questions for someone to answer by filling in answers.
What is a test?
Thinking about a person's own thinking and emotions.
What is introspection?
"Father of Psychology" who relied heavily on introspection
Who is Wundt
We behave a certain way based on learned and life experiences.
What is behaviorism?
The factor the experimenter changes.
What is an independent variable?
A set of questions someone answers face to face with another person.
What is an interview?
Information gathered.
What is data?
He was Interested in how humans function and adapt to the world around them.
Who is James?
We are a result of our unconscious forces happening without conscious control.
What is psychoanalytic?
Is measured based on the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
When you sit on the side taking notes while you watch someone's behaviors.
What is an observation?
Something fake that is either given or suggested.
What is a placebo?
He studied the impact of learning on human emotions.
Who is Watson?
Views people as good and capable of helping themselves.
What is humanistic?
A smaller group represents a larger group.
What is a sample or representative group?
When you conduct an experiment or study in an artificial (fake) setting.
What is laboratory study or lab study?
#'s, %'s, numerical data
What are statistics?
He studied under Wundt and came up with title "structuralism".
Who is Titchener?
People are thinking creatures and can decide the best ways to solve problems using their mental processes.
What is cognitive?
Extra factors that the experimenter did not consider.
What is extraneous variable?
A study that is expensive and takes a long time.
What is longitudinal?