Approaches to Psychology
Founded by Darwin, this approach emphasizes how behavior and mental processes adapt for survival
What is the evolutionary approach?
Psychologist associated with psychotherapy
Who is a clinical psychologist?
This psychologist studies the link between psychology & our physical health.
Who is a health psychologist?
He is the first modern psychologist
Who is Wundt?
An action that can be observed or measured.
What is a behavior?
Founded by Freud, based in childhood experiences
What is the psychodynamic approach?
A psychologist who testifies whether a person is legally “sane” or “insane”.
Who is a forensic Psychologist?
This psychologist has a doctorate degree, and can prescribe drugs and medicine.
Who is a psychiatrist?
Who is B.F. Skinner?
The scientific study of observable behavior.
What is Psychology?
This approach emphasizes learning, especially each person’s experience with rewards & punishments. It also focuses on OBSERVABLE behavior
What is the behavioral approach?
A psychologist who studies the changes we make as we grow- from womb to tomb.
Who is a developmental psychologist?
This psychologist helps students who learn differently than most others.
Who is a school psychologist?
He worked in Psychoanalysis
Who is Freud?
Research that is conducted for its own sake, that is, without trying to find a solution to a specific problem (or just to do research)
What is basic research?
Little Billy is clinically depressed. He sees a psychologist who teaches Billy that his false and negative thoughts are to blame for his depression. The psychologist then trains Billy how to think positively about himself and situations. What approach of psychology was the psychologist using with Billy?
This psychologist handles course planning and instructional methods for school districts.
Who is an educational psychologist?
This psychologist helps people w/challenges that are often vocational or marriage based, but do not prescribe drugs.
Who is a counseling psychologist?
Publisher of the book “Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It”
Who is John B. Watson?
Remember, John Behaviorist Watson
The practice of examining one’s own thoughts & feelings.
What is Introspection?
This approach emphasizes our individual potential for growth, individual choice, and free will.
What is the humanistic approach?
This psychologist investigates our persistent traits that may contribute to a person's ethics or likelihood of breaking laws
Who is a personality psychologist?
This psychologist focuses on course planning & teaching methods for an entire school system rather than individual students.
Who is an educational psychologist?
He thought that "perceptions are more than the sums of their parts"
Who is Gestalt?
Studies that aim to solve practical problems
What is applied research?