Notable People
Considered the "Father of Modern Psychology", this man's most famous ideas focus on subconscious thought repression and talk therapy.
Sigmund Freud
The disorder(s) identified by intense feelings of sadness and hopelessness.
Depression/ Depressive Disorders
A surgery historically used to treat mental health, which involves destroying the connections between parts of the brain.
Lobotomy
The scientific study of the mind, mental processes, and human behaviors.
Psychology
A condition that affects a person's thoughts, feelings, moods, and/or behaviors, AND negatively impacts their life in some way.
Mental Disorder
This Russian scientist is famous for his experiment that trained dogs to expect food, when a certain bell was rung.
Ivan Pavlov
The disorder(s) identified by intense feelings of worry and nervousness in certain situations.
Anxiety/ Anxiety disorders
Claims/beliefs that appear or attempt to appear scientific and factual, but are actually not based in scientific reasoning.
Pseudoscience
A subconscious, illogical belief that impacts a person's thoughts, feelings, or actions.
Bias
The physical medicine specialty which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
Psychiatry
This psychologist spent his career examining what motivates people. He is most well-known for his Hierarchy of Needs pyramid.
Abraham Maslow
Substance Use Disorders (Addiction)
A therapy method created by Sigmund Freud that focuses on unconscious thoughts and feelings as the reasons for psychological issues.
Psychoanalysis
A type of learning that uses rewards or punishments to increase or decrease the connection between something and the response to that thing.
Conditioning
A repeatable process for exploring a question in a way that avoids bias, which is marked by intentional observing, experimenting, and measuring.
Scientific Method
This psychologist changed psychology in the early 1900's by developing the belief that we should study a person's actions, rather than their mind.
John Watson
A disorder that is marked by uncontrollable, distressing thoughts, and a strong urge to do certain behaviors repeatedly (often in response to the distressing thought).
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
One of the newest fields within psychology, which focuses on finding and improving a person's strengths and abilities, rather than the traditional focus around the person's failures and problems.
Positive Psychology
Methods/strategies used by psychologists to help people change. Includes different therapies, medications, teaching them, etc.
Interventions
The front-most section of the brain, which is responsible for "higher" thinking, including self-control, problem solving, social knowledge, and more.
Frontal Lobe
One of the first scientist to study the development of children. He created a theory that children go through multiple stages of growth before being capable of thinking like an adult.
Jean Piaget
A condition relating to severe trauma, where a person has two or more distinct identities which often have their own personality traits, names, personal history, etc.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously called Multiple Personality Disorder)
These historic institutions acted as mental hospitals most widely in operation from around 1750 - 1950. These facilities are infamous for "treatment" methods that are considered unethical, inhumane, and barbaric by modern standards.
Asylum
Behaviorism
The fairly modern psychological model that believes mental health and illness need to be viewed from the biological, the psychological, and the social-economic perspective to be fully understood.
Biopsychosocial Model