Who am I?
I am considered the Father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
________ is the scientific study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others.
Social psychology
________ seeks to analyze the elements of mental experiences, such as sensations, mental images, and feelings, and how these elements combine to form more complex experiences.
Structuralism
____________ psychology addresses behavioral and mental health issues faced by individuals across the lifespan
Clinical Psychology
In addition to describing it, psychologists are also interested in _________ behavior.
Why do people do the things they do? What factors contribute to development, personality, social behavior, and mental health problems?
Explaining
I am the man behind Functionalism (A school of thought which suggests that the mind’s primary purpose is to help humans adapt to their environment)
William James
_________ psychology study the psychological aspects of athletic performance, including motivation and performance anxiety etc.
Sport Psychology
A school of thought which suggests that the mind’s primary purpose is to help humans adapt to their environment. It suggests that our mental states and behaviors are survival mechanisms.
Functionalism
this area of psychology that focuses on studying individual's thoughts, and their relationship to our experiences and our actions.
Cognitive Psychology
Once we understand more about what happens and why it happens, we can use that information to ______ when, why, and how it might happen again in the future.
Predict
If human beings had a hierarchy of needs, I would have established them.
Abraham Maslow
A field that uses psychological principles to help children and adolescents learn and develop socially, emotionally, and academically. They work to support students' well-being.
School psychology
This theory looks at the whole individual or the whole self. It stresses concepts such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization
Humanistic Theory
A psychological specialty that uses psychological principles to help people improve their mental health and well-being. They work to reduce psychological distress and promote the well-being of their clients
Counselling Psychology
One of the first goals of psychology is simply _______ behavior. By doing so, the behavior of humans and other animals, is better understood and we gain a better perspective on what is considered normal and abnormal.
Describe
I am the man behind the Psychodynamic approach which says that Human beings are not always in full control of their minds because of what happens in the unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
_____ ______ is a branch of both theoretical psychology and applied psychology that studies human behaviour and experience as complex systems. It is inspired by systems theory and systems thinking
Systems psychology
This theory has been very controversial as it focuses on sexuality, forbidden sexual and aggressive desires, fears, wishes, childhood trauma and also the fact that human beings are not in full control of their thoughts and behaviours.
Psychodynamic Approach
________ psychology is concerned with the _______ as the unit of study. This contrasts with most psychology, which focuses on the individual. _______ psychology also studies the _______ as a context for the individuals within it.
Community
The overall goal of Psychology is to _________ human behaviour.
Understand
children are born blank slates I say, (tabula rasa) and everything that they know is acquired though their interactions with the environment. Who am I?
John B Watson
What is the name of the school that offers Introduction to Psychology?
School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS)
Jean Piaget's _______ _______ theory states that human being experience 4 developmental stages throughout their life cycle.
Cognitive Development
A subfield of psychology that studies how people interact with the environment and how the environment affects people. It aims to improve people's interactions with the world around them and to promote behaviors that are good for the environment
Climate and environmental psychology
Psychology strives to ________, or influence, behavior to make constructive and lasting impact in people's lives.
Change