Famous Psychologists
Considered the father of Psychanalytical Psychology
Who is Sigmund Freud
These professionals help athletes refine their focus on competition goals, become more motivated, and learn to deal with the anxiety and fear of failure that often accompany competition.
Who are Sports Psychologists
A scientific theory that explains how organisms develop adaptations and how those adaptations become more common over time.
What is Darwinism/ What is the Theory of Evolution?/ Natural Selection
This perspective focuses solely on observable learned behaviors.
What is Behaviorism?
Mike’s fear of the dark is a survival instinct that his
ancestor’s also had.
What is Evolutionary?
This culture gave us the word "Psyche" meaning soul or mind.
Who are the Greeks?
His theory of classical conditioning was developed using dogs and unrelated stimuli.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
These professionals help people recognize their strengths and resources to cope with everyday problems and serious adversity through counseling.
Who are Counseling Psychologists
This theory involves the Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational stages.
Four Stages of Cognitive Development
This school of thought looks at human behavior across different cultures.
What is Social-Cultural psychology?
Antonio is feeling much healthier now that he is focusing on his positive traits and having good relationships.
What is Humanistic?
Which Greek philosopher used a kind of questioning inquiry that predates the scientific method?
Who is Socrates?
The theory of recapitulation which believes humans repeat the behaviors of ancestors was coined by this functionalist.
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
These professionals apply psychological principles to legal issues. Their expertise is often essential within the judicial system.
Who are Forensic Psychologists?
Carl Rogers', a founder of Humanism, believed that humans have one basic motive, the tendency to self-actualize, or to fulfill one’s potential and achieve the highest level of “human-beingness” we can. What is the name of this theory?
What is the theory of Unconditional Positive Regard?
The study of how the theory of evolution can explain physiological processes.
What is Evolutionary Psychology
Bianca has learned to not pull her sister's hair after being sent to her room numerous times for this behavior.
What is Behavioral?
Like Aristotle, this English philosopher saw the mind as a "Blank Slate".
Who is John Locke?
Through advocacy for the mentally ill, this activist drastically changed the medical field.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
These professionals assess and treat mental, emotional and behavioral disorders.
Who are Clinical Psychologists
A learning method, developed by B.F. Skinner which uses rewards and punishments to modify voluntary behaviors
What is Operant Conditioning?
This approach emphasizes the role of motivation in thought and behavior. Concepts such as self-actualization are essential to this perspective.
What is humanism?
The approach that is related to the speech parents give to their kids about jumping off a cliff because "everyone else is doing it".
What is the Socio- Cultural?
This Italian priest from the Middle Ages argued for separation of body and soul, reflecting a mind-body dualism we still use today.
St. Thomas Aquainas
He is best known for his research on children’s 4 cognitive stages of development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
These professionals explore the relationships between brain systems and behavior.
Who are Neuropsychologists/ behavioral neuropsychologists?
When humans repeat behaviors of their ancestors during their development.
What is the Theory of Recapitulation
This approach's emphasis is on the unconscious mind, the underlying meaning of dreams, and the role of unresolved past life experiences.
What is Psychoanalysis
Montgomery's therapist believes his fear of dogs is influenced by a bad experience with a neighbor's dog from childhood.
What is Psychoanalysis
This "enlightened" individual thought that some knowledge, such as geometry, self, and God, were inborn. He also established the idea " I think, therefore I am".
Rene Descartes