the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
What is psychology?
100
the psychological perspecive that attributes many psychosocial problems to confilicts between 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' unconscious exual or aggressive motives
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
100
the type of psychologist who applies psychological knowledge to human problems in the field of law enforcement.
What is a forensic psychologist?
200
critical thinking
What is the ability to accurately analyze information and to draw rational, fact based conclusions based on the empirical evidence provided?
200
this perspective stresses free will, self-actualization and fullfillment
What is the humanistic perspective?
200
these psychologists study the biochemical bases of behaviour, feelings, and mental processes
What are biological psychologists?
300
to what extent are we controlled by biological and genetic factors (the nature side) or by learning and environment (the nurture side)
What is the nature-nurture controversy?
300
this perspective emphasizes objective, observable environmental influences on overt behaviour and this man's name is most commonly associated with it.
What is the behaviourist perspective and B.F. Skinner (or John Watson)
300
the three areas of development studied by developmental psychologists
What are the physical, cognitive, and social development areas?
400
are flexible
can tolerate ambiguity
can identify their own biases
seperate facts from opinions
do not oversimplify
make logical inferences
What characteristics identify a critical thinker?
400
the two psychological perspectives that came before the psychodynamic perspective
What is structuralism and functionalism?
400
four examples of mental processes studied by cognitive psychologists or scientists
What is memory, perception, reasoning, problem solving, decision making and language use?
500
the four main goals of psychology
What is to describe, to explain, to predict, to change behaviour or mental processes through the use of scientific methods
What is the perspective that focuses on cross-cultural patterns of attitudes and behaviours?
What is the perspective that focuses on the brain and nervous system processes?
What is the perspective that focuses on evolved psychological adaptations?
500
the three most common work settings of psychologists
What is independent practice, academic settings, hospitals, clinics and other health care setting?