Research approach
Used by structuralists, this research method involved having participants make small, repeated mental judgments in response to some stimulus
What is controlled introspection?
This famous behaviorist psychologist studied operant conditioning and was known for being "anti-mentalist"
Who was B.F. Skinner?
The commonly-used name for the Scientist-Practitioner model for training of PhD level clinical psychologists, developed and adopted in 1949 during a conference of psychologists gathered a the university it's named after.
What is the "Boulder Model"?
The device invented by Skinner to use as an alternative to a baby crib or playpen, which looked like a large box and was temperature controlled.
What is the "Baby Tender"?
This Gestalt psychologist emigrated from Germany and became well known in the U.S. for his social psychological studies of group dynamics and field theory.
Who was Kurt Lewin?
The Gestalt psychologists studied subjective experience, and believed in leaving the experience intact and whole, not breaking it down. What method is this?
What is phenomenological?
This early woman activist was not a psychologist but was responsible for reforming treatment of mentally ill patients by lobbying state legislators to build humane mental hospitals in the 1800s.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This category of psychological assessment was rooted in psychoanalytic thinking and used widely in the mid-20th-century; examples include the Rorshach test and the TAT
What is the projective test?
He wrote a famous memoir called The Mind That Found Itself, about his experience as a patient in a mental hospital
Who was Clifford Beers?
Pioneer in Industrial/Organizational psychology, she became known as an innovative designer of kitchen spaces and appliances, while raising 11 children alone after her husband died.
Who was Lillian Gilbreth?
What is "Case Study"?
She was the first woman president of the APA and also well known for her memory research and theory of "self-psychology." She studied with William James at Harvard but could not obtain the PhD degree due to Harvard's discriminatory ban on giving the degree to women.
Who was Mary Calkiins?
Psychoanalysis brought this concept into modern consciousness; it refers to a level of consciouness that is unacknowledged yet motivates many of our behaviors.
What is the unconsious?
She was the research assistant who worked with John Watson on the "Little Albert" study and later married him.
Who was Rosalie Rayner?
He was a Russian physiologist who 'discovered' the principles of classical conditioning while working with dogs and noticing they salivated at odd times.
Who was Pavlov?
This perspective drew from the "Romantic" tradition in the history of science; it is sometimes critical of highly controlled lab research and emphasized qualitative research studies and meaningful research.
What is the Humanistic perspective?
This little known early psychologist opened the first Psychological Clinic and is considered the first school psychologist.
Who is Witmer?
Skinner coined this term to refer to the type of learning that governs voluntary behaviors and happens through environmental prompts and consequences (like rewards and punishments).
What is operant conditioning?
She was the medium that William James consulted and studied; he believed that she might prove that it was possible to speak to the dead.
Who was Mrs. Piper?
The German psychologist who opened the first laboratory to study psychological phenomena in 1879
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
This approach uses highly controlled laboratory studies to capture aspects of human thought processes and problem-solving.
What is the Cognitive perspective?
One of the first Forensic psychologists was a woman who overcame gender barriers in the mid-20th century, helped professionalize the field, and served as a courtroom forensic expert witness.
Who was Margaret Ives?
According to B.F. Skinner, all learning occurs through operant conditioning and many behaviors are learned when we experience positive consequences for them. Behaviorists call these positive consequences . . .
What are reinforcers?
A member of the Iowa Research Center team during the 1940 IQ debate, she told one member of the Stanford team, "Lewis Terman has poisoned your mind!"
Who was Beth Wellman?
The author of Origin of Species and father of evolutionary theory
Who was Charles Darwin?