Basic/Intro Flashcards
Culture
Shared ideas and behaviors passed from one generation to the next
WEIRD
Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic culture
Gender
Biologically and socially defined
Positive Psychology
Centers on happiness, uses scientific methods to support development of a good life, focus research on human flourishing
Psychology’s Subfields
1) Basic research
2) Applied research
3) Professional
Professional Subfield
- Counseling psychologists (typical therapists, etc. master’s degree)
- Clinical psychologists (PhD, more involved with medicine)
- Psychiatrists (medical doctor, medical school, medical doctorate Community psychologists)
Freudian Psychology (Psychoanalytic)
Emphasized ways that the unconscious mind and childhood experiences affect behavior emphasized
Skinner
Personality theorist and therapist
thought could teach any baby/child and they could learn to do anything
Humanistic Psychology
Found behaviorism and Freudian psychology too limiting
Emphasized human growth potential
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Focus on need, hierarchy of needs, etc.
Psychology
The science of behavior and mental processes, roots in many disciplines and countries, growing and globalizing
Cognitive Psychology
Study of mental processes, such as those that occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems
Cognitive Neuroscience
Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition, including perception, thinking, memory, and language
Evolutionary Psychology (not generally about origin of species) (adapt)
Study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using natural selection principles
Nature/Nurture Issue
Are traits present at birth or developed through experience?
Behavior Genetics
Study of relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior