Chapter 1 Flashcards
At first psychology was _______ based not science based
Knowledge
Who is the father of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundht
Who used Introspection to search for the mind’s structural elements?
Edward Tichener
The stream of consciousness is related to?
Functionalism
The First American woman in the APA was
Mary Whiton Calkins
Who held the Little Albert experiments?
John B. Waston
_______ only concern themselves with observable behavior
Behaviorists
_________ _______ is the study of brain activity linked with cognition
Cognitive Neuralscience
__________ is the scientific study of human behavior and mental process
Psychology
The debate whether behavior is caused by genes or learned is the…
Nature vs. Nurture Debate
Is Motor development Nature or Nurture?
Nature
Is Language Nature or nurture?
Nurture
Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base
basic research
scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
applied reserach
a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being
counseling pyschology
a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders
clinical psychology
a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medial treatments as well as psychological therapy.
Psychiatry
Which perspective looks at how we encode process, store and retrieve information?
Cognitive
Which perspective looks at how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?
Social-Cultural
Which perspective looks at how behavior springs from unconscious derives and conflicts?
Psychodynamic
With a Psy.D you tend to focus more on…
Paitents
A Psychologist has ______ privileges but NO ________ privileges
Hospital but NO PRESCRIPTION
A Psychiatrist has both ________ privileges and ________ privileges.
Hospital and PRESCRIPTION
A Psychiatrist’s biggest risk is what?
Having a patient commit suicide
______ psychology is how a certain drug works
Physiological
Jim Jones and “drinking the kool-aid” is an example of ______
social psychology
This psychologist works with the SCHOOL
Educational Psychology
These psychologists design products that are user-friendly
Engineers Psychology
These psychologists improve productivity in the workplace
Industrial/Organizational Psychology. (I/O Psychologist)
These psychologists deal with more soveier mental disordered paitents
clinical psychologists
Behavioral Perspective view the human being as a ________
Black Box. (Stimulus—Response)
Biological Perspective looks at the ____ _____. Understands humans based on their ______ and endocrine system.
Medical Model; Nervous System
Who studied the psycho-analytic perspective?
Freud
The Psycho-analytic perspective studies behavior from three components.
ID, Ego, Super-Ego
The ID is driven by
Sex
The Ego is the ______ principle
reality
The Super-Ego is the _____
conscience
The Skinner box uses Stimulus and
response
In the Skinner Box Operant Strength =
addiction
Cognitive psychologists view the brain as a
computer
The brain processes 6Gb a second but only realizes about
120kb
What are the ABC’s of behavior?
Antecedent: Condition that sets up behavior
Belief: belief that results from condition
Consequences: outcome of belief
What is changing the way you view an antecedent?
Cognitive Restructuring
Who started client centered therapy?
Carl Rogers
The Neurobiological perspective looks at behavior as an interaction between the ______ and _____ system
nervous and endocrine
Who theorized learning, memory, emotion, and perception?
Aristotle
Who measured “atoms of the mind”
Wundt
What focuses on how mental processes enable us to adapt and survive?
Functionalism
This used introspection to define the mind’s make-up
Structuralism
When this woman joined call all males dropped out
Mary Calkins
Who was the first female Psychologist to get a PHD
Margaret Wasburn
Watkins & Skinner dismissed____
introspection
What emphasized the ways our unconscious thought process and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior?
Freudian Psychology
Who said we inherit character and intelligence but we are born with some things.
Plato
Who said that the mind was a blank slate.
Locke
The Biopsychosocial approach is the __________ approach
COMPLETE
_________ psychologists adapt the environment for students.
Community
________ research tackles practical problems.
Applied
________ build’s psychology’s knowledge base.
Basic
To check for biases, psychologists report their research with these definitions…
Operational Definitions
