Adolescent Psych Flashcards
Psychoanalysis
Theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attempts to provide insight into thoughts and actions by exposing and interpreting the underlying unconscious motives and conflicts.
Sigmund Freud studied psychoanalysis.
Behaviorism
Theory that psychology should only study observable behaviors, not mental processes.
Watson, skinner and pavlov all studied behaviorism.
Humanistic psychology
Perspective that studies conscious experience, and the individuals freedom to choose.
Studied by Rogers and Pavlov.
Cognitive psychology
focused on cognitive development and led to a better understanding of children’s thought processes; study of developmental psychology.
Studied by Piaget.
Psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Wilhelm Wundt
German philosopher and physiologist.
“father” of psychology.
Introspection - where students described their own conscious experiences in a systematic way.
Structuralism
Theory that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations.
Founded by Edward B. Titchener (one of Wundt’s students)
Gestalt psychology
Psychological perspective that emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into a meaningful whole. (the whole is different then the Sum of the parts.)
William James
Harvard university professor
First American psychologist
Wrote first psychology textbook, published in 1890.
Studied functionalism
Functionalism
Theory that emphasized the functions of consciousness or the ways consciousness helps people adapt to their environment.
Sigmund Freud
Australian physician
Introduced psychoanalysis.
Ivan Pavlov
Discovered classical conditioning - in which learning occurs through association.
John B Watson
Founder of behaviorism
Abraham Maslow
Co Led humanistic psychology
Carl Rogers
Co led humanistic psychology
