What is Psychology
Define Psychology
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is a hypothesis?
What is a testable prediction.
Founder of the first psychology laboratory.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This perspective studies how rewards and punishments shape behavior.
What is the behavioral perspective?
A researcher studies how rewards increase homework completion.
What is the behavioral perspective?
This psychologist diagnoses and treats mental disorders.
Who is a clinical psychologist?
Why is psychology considered a science?
What is it uses observation, experimentation, and evidence.
What is empirical evidence?
What is evidence gathered through observation and experimentation?
A method of examining one's own conscious experiences.
What is introspection?
This perspective focuses on thinking, memory, and problem solving.
What is the cognitive perspective?
A psychologist studies how memory affects test performance.
What is the cognitive perspective?
This psychologist studies growth and development across the lifespan.
Who is a developmental psychologist?
What are the 4 goals of psychology?
What are describe, explain, predict, and influence (control)
What is replication?
What is repeating a study to check if results are reliable.
This psychologist developed functionalism.
Who is William James?
This perspective studies genetics, hormones, and brain structures.
What is the Biological Perspective?
A scientist investigates genetic causes of depression.
What is the biological perspective?
This psychologist studies workplace productivity and employee behavior.
Who is an industrial-organizational psychologist?
Which goal focuses on understanding why behavior occurs?
What is explain?
What are controlled experiments?
What are experiments help researchers identify cause-and-effect relationships.
This psychologist believed unconscious conflicts influence behavior.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This perspective emphasizes free will, personal growth, and self-actualization.
What is the humanistic perspective
A counselor helps clients achieve their personal goals and fullest potential.
What is the humanistic perspective?
This psychologist applies psychological principles to legal cases.
Who is a forensic psychologist?
This goal attempts to change behavior in useful ways
What is influence.
Scientists use this process to strengthen confidence in research findings.
What is replication?
This early school of psychology focused on breaking conscious experience into parts.
What is structuralism?
This perspective examines how culture and social groups influence behavior.
What is the sociocultural perspective.
A researcher studies how family traditions influence behavior.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
This psychologist studies how people influence one another.
Who is a social psychologist?