The psychological perspective that searches for the causes of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain, nervous system, and the endocrine system.
What is the biological view?
100
Erroneous assertions or practices set forth as being scientific psychology.
What is pseudopsychology?
100
The founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
Psychologists who work with athletes to help them maximize their performance.
Who are sport psychologists?
100
The French philosopher who asserted that human sensations and behaviors are based on activity in the nervous system.
Who is Rene Descartes?
200
The psychological perspective emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan.
What is the developmental view?
200
The tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs of expectations, while ignoring evidence that does not.
What is confirmation bias?
200
The founder of structuralism.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
Psychologists who have expertise in the problems of teaching and learning.
Who are school psychologists?
200
The figure that demonstrates that we add meaning to our sensations and serves as a metaphor for the multiple perspectives in psychology.
What is the Necker Cube?
300
A clinical viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential, and free will.
What is humanistic psychology?
300
The process of reporting on one's own conscious mental experiences.
What is introspection?
300
The founder of functionalism.
Who is William James?
300
Psychologists who serve with physicians, nurses, counselors, and social workers on teams that may treat patients with both physical and mental disorders.
Who are rehabilitation psychologists?
300
The civilization who proclaimed that our personalities are ruled by four body humors.
Who are the Greeks?
400
An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing; involves specialists form other fields who are interested in the connection between mental processes and the brain.
What is cognitive neuroscience?
400
Mental processes, such as thinking, memory, sensation, and perception.
What are cognitions?
400
The leader of the behavioral movement.
Who is John Watson?
400
Psychologists who specialize in modifying the work environment to maximize productivity and morale.
Who are industrial and organizational psychologists?
400
The owner of Clever Hans.
Who is Wilhelm von Osten?
500
Psychodynamic and humanistic psychology are variations on this view.
What is clinical view?
500
A complex blend of language, beliefs, customs, values, and traditions developed by a group of people and shared with others in the same environment.
What is culture?
500
The prominent psychologist who extended the reach of Gestalt psychology to insight learning.
Who is Wolfgang Kohler?
500
Psychologists who work with patients long-term to help them resolve problems of social and emotional adjustment or difficult choices in relationships, careers, or education.