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terminology
Subdisciplines
Major movements in Psychology
Evolution of Behavior
Psychology All Stars
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The scientific study of thought and behavior
What is Psychology?
100
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Also the single largest discipline in Psych.
What is clinical psychology?
100
A clinically based approach to understanding and treating psychological disorders; assumes that that the unconscious mind is the most powerful force behind thought and behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
100
The scientist best known for his work regarding evolution (especially with tortoises)
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Psychologist who introduced the psychoanalytic theory of behavior. Also had a wierd obsession with repressed sexual urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study of how living among others influences thought, feeling, and behavior.
What is Social Psychology?
200
The 19th century school of psychology that argued that breaking down experience into its elemental parts offers the best way to understand thought and behavior.
What is structuralism?
200

Man known as the "father of Psychology." He is credited with conducting the first laboratory experiment. (Hint, German name)

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

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The branch of Psychology concerned with the study of what makes people unique and the consistencies in people's behavior across time and situations.
What is Personality Psychology?
300
A school of psychology that proposed that psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable behavior, not ideas, thoughts, feelings, or motives.
What is Behaviorism?
300
This man is known as the founder of Behaviorism. Shares the same last name as Sherlock Holmes' assistant.
Who is John B. Watson?
400
The main method of investigation for structuralists; it involves looking into one's own mind for information about the nature of conscious experience.
What is Introspection?
400
The branch of Psychology that blends psychology, law, and criminal justice.
What is Forensic Psychology?
400
A theory of psychology that focuses on personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching one's highest potential.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
400
Branch of psychology that studies human behavior by asking what adaptive problems it may have solved for our early ancestors.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
500
The branch of Psychology concerned with the application of psychological concepts & questions to work settings.
What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology?
500
The most common theoretical orientation utilized in therapy. Combines two branches of Psychology, thus the name.
What is Cognitive Behavioral?
500

A feedback process whereby nature favors one design over another because it has an impact on reproduction.

What is natural selection.