Disorders
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.
Clinical Depression
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Empathy
The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
Heredity(nature)
Was an American psychologist best-known for his influence on behaviorism.
B.F. Skinner
Behavior therapy. This approach focuses on learning's role in developing both normal and abnormal behaviors.
Behavior therapy.
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
PTSD
Episodic memory is the memory of autobiographical events that can be explicitly stated or conjured.
Episodic Memory
An interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings.
Environment(nurture)
Was a Swiss psychologist and genetic epistemological. He is most famously known for his theory of cognitive development that looked at how children develop intellectually throughout the course of childhood.
Jean Piaget
Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies. This approach focuses on changing problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations.
Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies.
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
is the process of identifying human emotion, most typically from facial expressions as well as from verbal expressions.
Emotion Recognition
The first of the four stages Piaget uses to define cognitive development.
Sensorimotor Stage
Psychology's most famous figure is also one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century .His work and theories helped shape our views of childhood, personality, memory, sexuality, and therapy.
Sigmund Freud
Emphasizes what people think rather than what they do.
Cognitive therapy.
A disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel, and behave clearly.
The ability to attribute mental states — beliefs, intents, desires, emotions, knowledge, etc. — to oneself, and to others, and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions, and perspectives that are different from one's own.
Theory Mind
The second stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development. This stage begins around age 2, as children start to talk, and lasts until approximately age 7.
Preoperational Stage
An influential social cognitive psychologist who is perhaps best-known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments.
Albert Bandura
This approach emphasizes people's capacity to make rational choices and develop to their maximum potential. Concern and respect for others are also important themes.
Humanistic therapy
A serious developmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact.
Autism
The act of perceiving a situation or understanding a concept from an alternative point of view, such as that of another individual.
Perspective-taking
This stage lasts around seven to eleven years of age, and is characterized by the development of organized and rationale thinking.
Concrete Operational Stage
Was an American psychologist known for his influential psychotherapy method known as client-centered therapy.
Carl Rogers
Many therapists don't tie themselves to any one approach. Instead, they blend elements from different approaches and tailor their treatment according to each client's needs.
Integrative or holistic therapy.