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Innovative Thinkers
Innovations
Attributes of Innovative thinkers
Innovative leaders in Psychology
Evidence-based therapeutic innovations
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One of the great businessman/philanthropists of the last century. He founded and built Microsoft into an unmatched software behemoth and created a multi-billion dollar philanthropic enterprise working to enhance global healthcare and reduce poverty.
Who is Bill Gates
100
A free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the people who use it.
what is Wikipedia
100
A quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in human and animal species.
What is curiosity
100
Coined "God Father of Psychotherapy," an Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud
100
An attribute of consciousness long believed to promote well-being. Studies have also shown that rumination and worry contribute to mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and that this evidence based intervention is effective in the reduction of both rumination and worry
What is mindfulness
200
At the start of his scientific work, he realized the inadequacies of Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from an attempt to reconcile the laws of mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. He dealt with classical problems of statistical mechanics and problems in which they were merged with quantum theory: this led to an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules. He investigated the thermal properties of light with a low radiation density and his observations laid the foundation of the photon theory of light.
Who is Albert Einstein
200
a portable electronic device for playing and storing digital audio and video files.
What is iPod
200
Having a purpose; purposeful behavior.
What is goal-directed
200
He rejected the deterministic nature of both psychoanalysis and behaviorism and maintained that we behave as we do because of the way we perceive our situation. As a humanistic psychologist he believed that in order for people to "grow" they needed 3 main ingredients, genuineness, acceptance, and empathy.
Who is Carl Rogers
200
Involves training patients to control physiological processes such as muscle tension, blood pressure, or heart rate. These processes usually occur involuntarily, however, patients who receive help from a certified ________ therapists can learn how to completely manipulate them at will. Very helpful in the treatment of chronic pain, stress management, monitoring blood pressure, migraines.
What is bio-feedback therapy
300
The iconic American entrepreneur and founder of Apple will go down in history as one of the great innovators. As CEO of Apple in the 1980s and again in the late 90s and 2000s, he played a central role in the personal computer revolution and and in developing its key products, including the McIntosh, the iPod and the iphone.
Who is Steve Jobs
300
Create and maintain homeostasis, a state of wellness, balance, and proper function within an organism. Vital processes of living plants, that regulate plant functions, acting like various types of hormones and do the same in humans because the cell structure in plants and humans are very similar. They offer various types of protection to plants such as helping them to fight off viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi, and do the same things for people.
What are essential oils
300
A decision-making process based on imagining yourself back at the point before particular decisions were made, and free to make those decisions with the knowledge that you have now about their outcome.
What is Zero-based thinking (ZBT)
300
The first African American female to graduate with her PhD in psychology in 1933.
who is Inez Beverly Prosser
300
Is an organizational structure and treatment framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma.
What is trauma informed care?
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One of the most significant innovators and inventors in American History, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first long-lasting, commercially practical incandescent light bulb. He was the father of many other breakthroughs, including the first phonograph and the motion picture camera.
Who is Thomas Edison
400
A social networking website that makes it easy for you to connect and share with your family and friends online. Originally designed for college students, created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was enrolled at Harvard University.
What is Facebook
400
The ability to handle different situations in different ways, especially to respond effectively to new, complex, and problematic situations.
What is mental flexibility
400
An ex-patient with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder who is an American psychologist and author. She is the creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, a type of psychotherapy that combines behavioral science with Zen concepts like acceptance and mindfulness.
who is Marsha Linehan
400
a technique in behavior therapy used to treat anxiety disorders. It involves the exposure of the patient to the feared object or context without any danger, in order to overcome their anxiety.
What is exposure therapy
500
Who is the first female winner of the Nobel Prize in 1903 (she won it twice in both physics and chemistry), she was a pioneering physicist and chemist who is known for her breakthrough ideas in radioactivity and her discovery of two elements.
Who is Marie Curie
500
Launched in May 2005, allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. Provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
what is youtube
500
The quality that allows someone to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult or opposed by other people
What is persistence
500
A Dutch psychiatrist noted for his research in the area of post-traumatic stress since the 1970s. His work focuses on the interaction of attachment, neurobiology, and developmental aspects of trauma’s effects on people.
Who is Bessel van der kolk
500
Clinical pharmacogenomics consists of the application of research that links measurable genetic variants with the prediction of drug response
What is Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics