This psychologist founded the first psychological laboratory in Germany in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
Unlike Psychoanalysts, Humanists believe that all people have this.
What is free will?
100
This specialist is most likely to have a medical degree.
Who is a psychiatrist?
100
He applied the law of natural selection to human beings, forwarding the idea that human behavior and thinking are subject to scientific inquiry.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
This is the modern definition of psychology.
What is "the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?"
200
John B. Watson was a pioneer in this perspective of psychology.
What is behaviorism?
200
This psychological approach suggests that all people are essentially good.
What is humanism?
200
Leadership, job satisfaction, and employee motivation are all studied in this psychological discipline.
What is Industrial-Organizational psychology?
200
This perspective views the human condition as a mixture of unconscious desires and conflicts.
What is psychoanalytic?
200
The purpose of basic psychology is this.
What is building psychology’s knowledge base?
300
She was a student of William James and the first female president of the American Psychological Association.
Who is Mary Calkins?
300
This approach to psychology emphasizes observable responses over inner experiences when accounting for behavior.
What is behaviorism?
300
This psychologist would be interested primarily in studying whether people behave differently in groups than they do when alone.
What is a social psychologist?
300
This approach believes that humans are genetically programmed to ensure that there is a new generation of the species.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
300
The purpose of applied psychology is this.
What is solving practical problems?
400
These people were the most famous psychoanalysts/psychodynamic theorists.
Who are Freud, Adler, Jung and Horney?
400
A researcher studies the effects of brain lesions in rats. This research study reflects this perspective.
What is biological psychology?
400
This specialist focuses on aspects of the individual such as traits, attitudes, and goals.
What is a personality psychologist?
400
These men were the founders of the humanistic approach.
Who are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers?
400
These early psychologists believed that psychology should NOT focus on “the mind” because “the mind” is unobservable.
Who are behaviorists?
500
This philosopher believed that who we are and what we know are innate (inborn).
Who is Plato?
500
A psychologist who suggests that a patient's problems stem from internal processes such as unrealistic expectations and negative thinking is working from this perspective.
What is the cognitive approach?
500
This specialist focuses on methods for acquiring and analyzing psychological data.
What is a psychometrician?
500
He was the “father” of functionalism, or the function or purpose of behavioral acts.