chapter 1 Flashcards
behavioral genetics
subfield of psych
- studied the inheritance of traits related to behavior
behavioral neuroscience
subfield of psych
- examines the biological basis of behavior
clinical psychology
subfield of psych
- deals with study, diagnosis, treatment of psychological disorders
clinical neuropsychology
subfield of psych
- unites the areas of biopsychology and clinical psycology, focusing on the relationship between biological factors and psychological disorders
cognitive psychology
subfield of psych
- focuses on the study of higher mental processes
conseling psychology
subfield of psych
- focuses primarily on educaitonal, social, and career adjustment problems
cross- cultural psych
subfield of psych
- looks at similarities and differences in psychological functioning in and across cultures
developmental psych
subfield of psych
- examines how people grow and hcange from conception - death
educational psych
subfield of psych
- concerned with teaching and learning processes (relaitonship between motivation and school performance)
enviornmental psych
considers relationship between people and their phsysical enviornment
subfield of psych
evolutionary psych
subfield of psych
- considers how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our ancestors
experimental psych
subfield of psych
- studies the processes or sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the wolrd
forsenic psych
subfield of psych
- focuses on legal issues (determining teh accuracy of witness memories)
health psychology
subfield of psych
- explores the relationship between psychological factors and physical ailments or disease
industrial/ organizational psych
subfield of psych
- concerned with psychology of the workplace
personality psych
subfield of psych
- focuses on consistency in peoples behavior over time and traits taht differentiate people
program evaluation
subfield of psych
- ofucses on assessing large scale problems to determien whether they meet goals
psychology of women
subfield of psych
- focuses on issues such as discriminaton against women and causes of violence against women
school psychology
subfield of psych
- devoted to conseling children in school who have academic or emotional probs
social psychology
subfield of psych
- study of how people’s thoghts, feelings and actions are affected by others
sport psychology
subfield of psych
- applies psychology to artistic activity / exercise
wilhelm wundt
first psych lab in germany late 19th century
- structuralism and introspection
structuralism
- WW
- uncovering fundamental mental components of perception, consciousness , thinking
introspection
- used by structuralists
- present people with stimulus, ask them to describe what they are experiencing.
- map out thought process but no verificaiton of accuracy, hard to talk about emo feelings
william james
- psych lab in cambrdige MA
- functionalism
functionalism
- william james
- focused on what mind does, functions of mental activity
- ex. examine emotion of fear in preparing to deal with emergency, how ppl satsify needs thru behavior
- stream of consciousness
gestalt psych
our perception of objects is greater than individual elements that make up our perception
- the whole is different from the sum of its parts
what are the 5 perspectives of psych
BCPHN
- behavioral
- cognitive
- psycho-dynamic
- humanistic
- neuroscience
behavioral perspective
- focuses on observable behavior
cognitive perspective
- examines how people understand and think about the world
psychodynamic perspective
- believes behavior is motivated by inner unconscious forces over which a person has little ocntrol
humanistic perspective
- contends that ppl can control their behavior, naturally try to reach full potential
neuroscience perspective
- view behavior from the perspective of biological functioning
