Ignoring inconsistent evidence, seeing relationships that do not exist
What is Confirmation bias?
100
The study of characteristics, thoughts, emotions and behaviors in people and how they vary across social situations.
What is Personality Psychology?
100
Argued that psychology should be a science of observation and experimentations in mid 180s
Who is John Stuart Mill?
100
A theory presented by the Naturalist Charles Darwin; it views the history of a species in terms of the inherited, adaptive value of physical characteristics of mental activity and of behavior.
What is Evolutionary Theory ?
100
Established the first phycology lab?
What is 1879?
200
Accpeting after-the-fact explanations
What is Hindsight Bias?
200
The mental process that operate below the level of conscious awareness.
What is unconscious?
200
Published the first overview of Psychology
Who is William James?
200
A psychological approach that emphasize the role of environmental forces in producing behavior.
What is Behaviorism?
200
First Textbook.
What is 1890?
300
Taking Mental Shortcuts
What is Heuristic Bias?
300
Systematically evaluating information to reach reasonable conclusions.
What is critical thinking?
300
Founded Gestalt Theory.
Who is Max Wertheimer?
300
An approach to psychology concerned with the adaptive purpose, or function, of mind and behavior.
What is Functionalism?
300
Gestalt Theory
What is 1912?
400
Failing to see our own inadequacies. Wanting to see ourselves as more capable than what we are
What is Self-Serving Bias?
400
The study of mind, body and behavior?
What is Psychological science?
400
Much of human behavior is determined by mental process operating below the level of awareness.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
A theory based on the idea that the whole of personal experience is different from the sum of its constituent elements.
What is Gestalt Theory?
400
Cognitive Psychology.
What is 1957?
500
Rather than critical thinking. "Gut Feeling"
What is Biases in Noncritical thinking?
500
In evolutionary theory, the idea that those who inherit characteristics that help them adapt to their particular environments have selective advantage over those who do not.
What is natural selection?
500
Pioneered a humanistic approach to the treatment of psychological disorders.
Who are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?
500
An approach to psychology based on the idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its basic underlying components.