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Studies the changes that occur throughout the lifespan.
What is a Developmental Psychologist?
100
Founded the school of thought known as structuralism.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
The field of study concerned with the supernatural or other phenomena that science cannot explain.
What is Parapsychology?
100
Research that has no immediate application and is done for its own sake.
What is Basic Research?
100
Founded the science of chemistry and explained how animals and plants use oxygen in respiration.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
200
Examines the ways in which behavior and mental processes are related to physical health.
What is a Health Psychologist?
200
Added the concept of reinforcement to the behaviorist tradition.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
200
Psychology is considered to be this type of science.
What is a Social Science?
200
Concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment.
What is Functionalism?
200
Developed the humanistic perspective.
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
300
Studies the behavior of shoppers to explain and predict their behavior.
What is a Consumer Psychologist?
300
The founders of Gestalt Psychology
Who are Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka & Wolfgang Kohler?
300
Examines the ways in which people are influenced by their physical environment influences peoples behavior.
What is an Environmental Psychologist?
300
Looks for the many different traits people have and studies the development of these traits.
What is a Personality Psychologist?
300
Focuses on the external influences that exist on peoples' behavior.
What is a Social Psychologist?
400
Work within the criminal justice system, testifying in court, hiring police officers etc.
What is a Forensic Psychologist?
400
Founded the school of thought known as psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
Suggests that people can change their environments to create new ones.
What is the Social-learning Theory.
400
Looking within yourself.
What is introspection?
400
Concerned with the nature of the physical world.
What is Natural Sciences?
500
Studies the behavior of people in organizations and work.
What is an Industrial or Organizational Psychologist?
500
Founded the original behaviorism?
Who is John B. Watson?
500
Concerned with discovering the basic elements of the conscious experience, breaking it down into two parts.
What is Structuralism?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!! Says that perceptions are more than sums of parts. They are perceived as "wholes" which give them meaning.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
500
Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflict on human behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?