Psychology Basics
Types of Psychology
Psychologists
Careers in Psychology
Bonus Questions
100
The scientific study of animal and human behavior.
What is Psychology
100
____________ studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences. it is a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity. This school of thought believes that structure is more important than function.
What is Structuralism
100
This Psychologist was credited with setting up the first psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany and creating a process of collecting data that we now know as the scientific method.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
100
¡s a psychologist who usually helps people deal with problems of everyday life
What is a Counseling Psychologist
100
The difference between Psychologist and a Psychiatrist is that a psychiatrist holds a _____________________.
What is a medical degree.
200
A way of asking and answering questions about why people think, act, and feel as they do, which reduces the chances of coming to false conclusions
What is the systematic method
200
_______________ studies the function instead of the structure of consciousness. e.g. the theory suggests that all aspects of a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of that society.
What is Functionalism
200
a psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment.
What is a behaviorist
200
diagnoses and treats people with psychological and emotional disturbances. They use the DSM-V.
What is Clinical Psychologist
200
The scientific method was founded by Wilhelm Wundt but had another name.
What is Introspection
300
Psychologists seek to describe, explain, predict and define the influences of behavior.
What are the four goals of psychology
300
__________________ studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior,?feelings, and thoughts.
What is a Psychoanalyst
300
a psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth. Believed human nature as evolving and self-directed
What is Humanist
300
______________________ uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees and managers
What is an Industrial or Organizational Psychologist
300
What are the names of the five contemporary approaches that was discussed in class.
What is Psychoanalytic Behavioral Humanistic Cognitive Biological Sociocultural
400
Psychologist uses _____________ to conduct studies with the long-term goal of finding out more about human behavior to understand it but not use it.
What is basic science
400
a psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence our behavior studies this type of psychology.
What is Cognitive
400
______________________ introduced the concept of reinforcement a response to a behavioral stimuli that increases the likelihood for the behavior to be repeated
Who is B.F. Skinner
400
_____________________ work in legal, court, and correctional systems. It is the interaction of the practice or study of psychology and the law.
What is a Forensic Psychologist
400
List in order the steps of the scientific method
What is the Purpose, Research Hypothesis, Eperiment, Analysis and Conclusion
500
Psychologists that use ________________ are more interested in discovering ways to use what we already know about people to benefit others. They want to understand and fix the problems.
What is applied science
500
__________________ studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior
What is a Psychobiologist
500
________________ was interested in the unconscious mind and used the technique of free association, and believed that dreams are expressions of the?most primitive unconscious urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud
500
is a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
What is Psychiatry
500
Professor Aldaz is a _______________ counselor.
What is school counselor