General Psych
The study of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychology
The first thinkers, in the ancient era, too separate the mind from the body and attempt to understand what drives human behavior.
Who was:
Socrates... or .... Plato ... or ... Aristotle
Someone who believed __________ would say that humans act out of training and conditioned behavior and are simply doing what they trained to do at any moment.
Behavioralism
Your theory of what will happen before you begin your experiment.
Hypothesis
A psychologist that focuses on working with athletes through injuries, and helps them manage the stress of high performance sports. Also works to research the mind of athletes for research
Sports Therapist / Athletic Psychologist
Actions that can be seen and measured by a researcher. One of the main studies in psychology. The way someone or something acts or conducts oneself, especially towards others
What is Behavior
Considered the Father of psychology, published his main work "Outline of Psychology" in 1896. Is the Father of Structuralism
Who was Wilhelm Wundt
Psychoanalysis is
What you change in the experimental group
Indépendant variable
Works with law enforcement to study criminal behavior and how to solve crimes. Attempts to research why people commit crimes and how to reduce crime in a society.
Forensic Psychologist / Criminal Psychologist
Also know as cognition, it's the steps of thinking that can not be measured with the naked eye. Cognitive Functions that enable someone to think, learn, remember and solver problems
Mental Processes
Father of Psychoanalysis perspective and focused on how the unconscious mind affects behavior. First implementor of talk therapy or "Free association"
Who is Sigmund Freud
Describes human behavior as based on trying to reach "Self Actualization" or their best possible self, and this need being the push for all behavior.
Humanism
If I did not give someone the ability to leave a study that would be a violation of their right to...
Withdrawal
Work s with children to treat early childhood trauma. Studies how development in children is affected by their surroundings and how the brain changes through childhood / adolescence.
A sudo-science where people would measure the edges of the skull in order to explain mental conditions or behaviors
One of the founders of Behavioralism, Famous for his experiment working with dogs to train them through classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
The first perspective in psychology.
What is Structuralism.
Group of people in an experiment who are not subjected to the independent variable.
Control Group
The branch of psychology focused on the study of unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which may indicate a mental disorder. Examples: studying mass murderers, anti-social behavior, schizophrenia patients
Abnormal Psychologist
Psychology in latin
Study of the Soul
Founder of Humanism, countering behavioralism. He said behavior isn't just driven by training, but the will of people to fulfill their lives.
Who is Maslow
Socio-Psychology is...
A perspective in psychology based on humans conforming to society and matching the behaviors of their peers as apposed to being driven wholly by themselves.
A study based on one person or event that allows researchers to get information about an abnormal mental process or situation in the mind.
Example: Phineas Gage
What is a Case Study
the field that integrates science and clinical knowledge to understand, prevent, and treat psychological distress and dysfunction, while also promoting personal growth and well-being. Studies the brain and biological reasoning for disorders
Clinical Psychology / Neuropsychology