I'm Notable
•In 1879 I opened first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany
•Considered founder and father of psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The process by which scientists try to construct an accurate representation world
What is the Scientific Method?
Focuses on mental processes such as memory, thinking, problem-solving, language and decision-making.
What is the Cognitive Approach?
Is what will be measured; it's what the investigator thinks will be affected during the experiment.
What is the Dependent Variable?
The primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories.
What is the Id?
I established the psychoanalytic perspective.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Is something that researchers administer to experimental units.
What is the treatment?
Focuses on the learning process and learning behavior.
What is the Behavioral Approach?
An element, feature, or factor that is liable to vary or change.
What is a variable?
I guess I'll have to wait until I have the money to buy the candy bar.
What is the Ego?
I am the first woman to receive a PhD in Psychology.
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn?
Since many patients are confident that a treatment will positively affect them, they react to a control treatment which actually has no physical affect at all, such as a sugar pill.
What is the placebo effect?
Looks at an individual as a whole person.
What is the Humanistic Approach?
The variable held constant.
What is the control variable?
Operates as a moral conscience.
What is the Super-Ego?
I established America’s 1st psychology lab
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
Used as a baseline measure.
What is the control?
Focuses on genetics and how we are a product of our genes and nothing else.
What is the Biological Approach?
Is what is varied during the experiment; it is what the investigator thinks will affect the dependent variable.
What is the Independent Variable?
I want that candy bar RIGHT NOW!!!!!
What is the Id?
I taught the 1st psychology class at Harvard and published the first widely used psychology textbook.
Who is William James?
The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected
What is Psychology?
Emphasizes the role of the unconscious mind, different life experiences when young and old, and relationships to explain the way humans behave.
What is the Psychodynamic Approach?
Objects or individuals are randomly assigned (by chance) to an experimental group.
What is randomization?
The realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.
What is the Ego?