Definitions
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
This approach studies how unconscious motives, desires, and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts.
What is psychoanalytic?
The practice of examining bumps on a person’s skull to determine intelligence and character traits
What is phrenology?
He is considered to be the "Father of Psychoanalysis".
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Behavior is the result of these 2 processes.
What are physiological and cognitive?
The act or result of being aware of the inner nature of things.
What is insight?
They work in legal, court, and correctional systems. They assist police by developing personality profiles of criminal offenders or help law enforcement officers understand problems like abuse.
Who are forensic psychologists?
This approach studies how unconscious motives, desires, and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts.
What is psychoanalytic?
Believed the body and mind worked together to create a person's experiences or behavior.
What is Rene Descartes?
The idea that the body and mind operate separately.
What is dualism?
A means of learning about one’s own currently ongoing, or perhaps very recently past, mental states or processes.
What is introspection?
They study emotional, cognitive, and social changes that occur throughout life. Specialists in this area study children, the elderly, and the process of dying.
Who are developmental psychologists?
Analyzes how organisms learn or modify behavior based on their response to events in the environments.
What is behaviorism?
Who is William James?
The goal of functionalism.
What is to help us survive as a species?
A scientific and professional society of psychologists and educators.
They argued that perception is more than a sum of its parts- it involves a whole pattern.
Who are Gestalt psychologists?
What is Humanism?
His theory of introspection lead to what is now called the scientific method.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
It's often referred to as neuroscience.
What is psychobiology?
A means of learning about one’s own currently ongoing, or perhaps very recently past, mental states or processes.
What is introspection?
A psychologist who studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences.
What is a structuralist?
Study how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence our behavior.
What is cognitivism?
Performed a behavioral experiment on cats.
Who is Edward Thorndike?
The 4 goals of psychology.
What are describe, explain, predict, and influence behavior.