Why Study Psychology?
This is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
This field of psychology include child mental health, adult mental health, learning disabilities, geriatrics and general health.
What is Clinical Psychology?
The phrase "know thyself" is applicable to this psychological term.
What is introspection?
___________ emphasizes the role that thoughts play in determining behavior.
What is the cognitive perspective?
The two widely used research methods in psychology are
What are surveys and experimentation?
This is a medical doctor that can prescribe medication for mental disorders.
What is a Psychiatrist?
The school of thought that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts in determining human behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
This perspective believes that unconscious motives influence behavior.
What is the psychoanalytic perspective?
What is a statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and why they happen the way they do?
What is a theory?
This field of psychology deals with problems such as peer and family problems, and learning disorders.
What is School Psychology?
Founder of the school of Structuralism.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This perspective states that personal experiences and reinforcement guide individual development.
What is the learning perspective?
These activities include dreams, perceptions, thoughts, and memories.
What are cognitive activities?
This field of psychology studies the changes in an individual across their life span.
What is Developmental Psychology
School of psychology that describes experience as a whole, rather than breaking it down into parts
What is Gestalt Psychology?
This perspective is influenced by associationism and neuroscience.
What is the biological perspective?
This is used when psychologists need to study something that can't be seen, touched, or measured directly.
What are psychological constructs?
This field of psychology conducts research into basic processes such as functions of the nervous system.
What is Experimental Psychology?
Psychologist who introduced the concept of reinforcement
Who is B.F Skinner?
This perspective deals with the interpretation of mental images, thinking, language and how perceptions & thoughts influence behavior.
What is the cognitive perspective?