Psych Overview
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
Pioneered the method of Psychoanalysis and dream interpretation, had poor opinions about women
Sigmund Frued
Type of approach involving dream analysis, free association, unconscious motivations
Psychoanalysis/Psychoanalytic approach
This group believed in genetic superiority and wanted to remove undesirable people
Nazis
CBT stands for
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Started the first laboratory of Psychology in Leipzig Germany in 1879
Wilhem Wundt
Type of psychology that focuses entirely on observable behavior
Behavioral Psychology
True or False: Electroshock therapy is still in use today
True
Having to do with thinking and understanding, plays a role in therapy
Cognitive
Was a functionalist who wrote the first psych textbook and taught the first psych class
William James
Type of Psychology that studies mental processes and thoughts
Cognitive Psychology
Gestalt Psychology is a theory about...
Perception, senses
Type of therapy used to overcome fear of the Ocean
Exposure Therapy
Believed that genetics determined success and intelligence, studied heredity
Sir Francis Galton
Humanistic Psychology
Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Mucus, Blood
The Four Goals of Psychology (You need 2)
Describe, Explain, Predict, Influence
Greek "Father of Medicine", first to question whether illness had natural causes
Hippocrates
Unfounded branch of psychology focused on skull shape to determine personality
Phrenology
How would the Greeks treat an imbalance of Humors?
Induce vomiting