Famous Psychologists
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Psychology 101
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Psychological Debates
100
He founded the first psychology lab in Germany in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
These are the two historical roots of Psychology.
What are philosophy and biology?
100
The minimum score you are going to get on the AP exam.

What is a 3?

100

Explores how mental and behavioral processes function– how they enable organism to adapt and survive.

What is functionalism?

100
Philosophers have debated over whether knowledge is this, meaning we are born with all the knowledge we will ever have.
What is innate?
200
He is a famous behavioral psychologist who worked with Little Albert.
Who is John B. Watson?
200
He was the first philosopher to believe that our minds are blank at birth, and written on by experience.
Who is Aristotle?
200
Today, psychology is defined as this.
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
200

The father of psychology

Wilhelm Wundt

200
Aristotle and John Locke both agreed that are minds are this at birth, waiting to be written on by experience.
What is blank (or a blank slate)?
300
He introduced the concept of functionalism, or the study of how mental and behavioral processes enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.
Who is William James?
300
This subfield of psychology that gained popularity in the 1960s emphasized the importance of current environmental factors on growth potential, and meeting our human needs for love and acceptance.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
300
Psychology as a field wants to be considered this because it is rooted in observation.
What is a science?
300
Counseling psychologists differ from these other professionals in that they help people cope with challenges by recognizing their strengths and resources, while their colleagues assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavior disorders.
What are clinical psychologists?
300
While psychology may seem highly divided, in fact it is very this, meaning that it can be applied in many different fields.
What is interdisciplinary?
400

He introduced structuralism, an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind.

Wilhelm Wundt

400
In the 1960s, this revolution focused on the importance of considering internal thought processes, but it expanded upon those ideas to explore scientifically the ways we perceive, process, and remember information.
What is the cognitive revolution?
400
Behavior is defined in psychology as this.
What is anything an organism does that we can observe and record?
400

Psychologist for the Little Albert experiment

John B. Watson

400
This theory is about how inherited traits that contribute to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.
What is Natual Selection?
500
Humanistic Psychology was pioneered by these two psychologists.
Who are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?
500

What year was the 1st psychology lab opened?

1879

500
These are internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior (e.g. sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, feelings).
What are mental processes?
500
This is approach gives an integrated perspective that incorporates three levels of analysis.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
500
This is the current view most psychologist hold when it comes to the nature-nurture debate.
What is that nurture works on what nature endows?
600

Ego, Superego, ID

Sigmund Freud
600

The term for the study of how individuals change physically, mentally, and socially throughout the course of their lives?

Developmental Psychology

600

Name a cognitive psychologist

Jean Piaget

600

Mr. Jackson believes that students are motivated to act out in class by their unmet needs in esteem and belonging. This is the area of psychology that addresses that belief.

Humanistic

600

The primary goal of Clinical Psychologist

Diagnose and treat mental disorders

700

G. Stanley Hall and John Hopkins studied what field of psychology

Structuralism

700

Psychologist who dogs to show the concept of classical conditioning

Ivan Pavlov

700

Sigmund Freud was on this side of the nature v nurture debate

Nurture

700

Positive/negative reinforcements and punishments are part of this type of conditioning

Operant Conditioning

700

This psychologist led the operant conditioning theory of behavior

B.F. Skinner