Ch 1 Flashcards
What is the approach that looks at thinking, memory, and emotions
Cognitive approach
What is the approach that looks at genes, neurons, and other brain chemicals?
Biological Approach
What is the approach that focuses on controlling and adapting behaviors?
Behavioral Approach
This approach may look at how autism and other mental disorders are diagnosed in other countries.
Cross cultural approach
This approach looks at the unconscious, childhood, and dreams.
Psychoanalytical approach
This approach emphasizes self fulfillment
Humanistic approach
Cognitive neuroscience
Involves taking pictures and identifying the structures and functions of the living brain during performances of a wide variety of mental or cognitive processes, such as thinking,planning, naming, and recognizing
Psychology careers break downs
49% private practice or therapy setting 28% academic settings 13% career settings 6% industrial settings 4% secondary schools and other settings
Social psychology
Involves the study of social interactions, stereotypes, prejudices, attitudes, conformity, group behaviors, and aggression
Personality psychology
Involves the study of personality development, personality change, assessment, and abnormal behaviors
Developmental psychology
Examines moral, social, emotional, and cognitive development throughout a persons entire life time
Experimental psychology
Includes areas of sensation, perception, learning, human performance, motivation and emotion
Biological psychology or psychobiology
Research on physical and chemical changes that occur during stress, learning, and emotions, as well as how our genetic makeup, brain, and nervous system interact with our environments and influence our behaviors
Cognitive psychology
Involves how we process, store, and retrieve information and how cognitive processes influence our behaviors
Psychometrics
Focuses in the measurement of people’s abilities, skills, intelligence, personality, and abnormal behaviors
