The desire to become the most that we can be is human nature. Reaching that point it called...
Self Actualization
Trait theorist Gordon Allport narrowed our traits into three different categories. What are they?
Cardinal, Central, and Secondary traits.
These were the two main symptoms presenting themselves when John Nash was diagnosed with Schizophrenia.
What are delusions and hallucinations?
With this disorder, a patient experiences recurrent obsessive thoughts that lead to compulsive behavior. It often causes distress and disruption in a person's daily life.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Psychoanalytic Theory was created by this Psychologist.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional were the moral stages of development created by this theorist.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
Psychologists who study personality believe we should all practice the art of this. Without it, we aren't able to understand ourselves (thoughts, behaviors, feelings) as well.
What is Introspection?
In Brain on Fire, Susannah's doctors were trying to understand her thoughts and behaviors through a physical lens. They were investigating the cause of behaviors using the medical model. What theory or approach is this?
Biopsychological theory
According to Wilhelm Wundt, Feelings, Sensations, and Perceptions make up this.
What is Introspection?
This American Psychologist wrote the first Psychology textbook and is said to be one of the founders of modern Psychology. His theory was Functionalism.
Who is William James?
Erikson said that the conflict (crisis) of this psychosocial stage of development is with developing healthy/loving/intimate relationships with others.
What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
Erikson said that each stage has a "blank" between two opposing identities.
In the Ultimate Gift, looking at Jason's personality from this school of thought would help a therapist to understand Jason's cold personality at the start of the movie.
What is Sociocultural Psychology?
What is Psychoanalytic Psychology?
This is a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified through reinforcement or punishment.
What is Operant Conditioning?
John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner, and Ivan Pavlov were psychologists who developed this theory.
What is Behaviorism?
We hope to meet milestones in each developmental stage of life, in the areas of cognition, psychosocial, moral, and psychosexual. Not meeting a milestone would indicate...
What are developmental delays?
In both The Breakfast Club and The Ultimate Gift we saw the characters show us this important side of them before they were able to grow emotionally and allow other people in.
What is vulnerability?
In Criminal Minds, we learned about an unsub whose personality had split due to the trauma he'd experienced. What is the name of the disorder this unsub was suffering from?
Dissociative Identity Disorder
This lobe of the brain is associated with higher reasoning and cognition, language expression, and fine motor skills?
What is the frontal lobe?
Through his Humanistic theory, this theorist developed a hierarchy of needs to help us better understand the role that having our needs met plays in our mental well being.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Without this theory of psychology, we would understand far less about the milestones children are supposed to hit as their growing up. This approach allows us to recognize a problem and address it before his/her peers move too far beyond.
What is Developmental Psychology?
This stage questions whether a person is making their mark on this world, leaving a legacy, and caring for the future. If they are not, they may feel emotionally stagnant.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
In The Breakfast Club, we witnessed the characters learn how to consider not only their own but also their classmates' thoughts, feelings, intentions, and experiences in order to interpret and understand their peers better. They showed us the skill of...
Social Thinking
This hemisphere of the brain is better at mathematical skills and logic- it is more analytical, and it controls the right side of the body.
What is the left hemisphere?
Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, concrete-operational, and formal-operational are all stages of this theorist's cognitive developmental theory.
Who is Jean Piaget?