FIRST QUIZ Flashcards
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
Psychology that is done according to the rules of science
Psychology’s scientific study
Refers to any activity which can be observed
Behavior
When did scientific psychology begin?
1879
He established the first psychology laboratory and is considered the Father of Modern Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Field of psychology concerned with studying basic principles
General Psych
Field of psych concerned with changes that take place in a persons life span
Developmental Psych or Genetic Psych
Field of Psychology that focuses on consistent ways of behaving that characterizes ones personality
Personality or Dynamic personality
Field of psychology that studies the nervous system and other organs
Physiological Psychology
Field of psychology that studies the influence of other people on individual behavior
Social Psychology
Concerned with the classification of mental disorders
Abnormal Psychology
Field of psychology that involves lab research
Experimental Psychology
Field of psychology that focuses on the diagnosis of psychological disorders
Clinical Psychology
Field of psychology that provides services to moderately disturbed people
Counseling Psychology
Field of psychology that focuses on issues in business and industry
Industrial or Organizational or Personnel or Business Psychology
Field of psychology that is concerned with how students learn in classrooms
Educational or School Psychology
Field of psychology that is concerned with adjusting work to human limitations
Engineering psychology
Field of psychology that involves legal work
Legal or Forensic Psychology
Field of psychology that specializes in the measurement of specific behaviors
Psychometric Psychology
Enumerate the Applies fields of Psychology
Clinical psych
Counseling
Industrial or Organizational
Educational
Engineering
Legal or Forensic
Psychometric
Enumerate the Basic fields of psychology
General Psych
Developmental or Genetic
Personality
Physiological
Social
Abnormal
Experimental
Enumerate the behaviors
Overt
Covert
Conscious
Unconscious
Normal
Abnormal
Simple
Complex
Verbal
Non Verbal
Rational
Irrational
Respondent
Operant
The traditional belief that happenings and events are influenced by supernatural creatures
Animism
He discovered an area in the frontal lobes of the brain to be responsible for the production of speech.
Paul Broca
A psychological approach that emphasizes studying the elemental structures of consciousness, sometimes called “elementarism”
Structuralism
The examination of own thoughts, sensation feelings. Also referred to as “introspective psychology”
Introspection
A school of psychology that studies the useful functions that consciousness served
Functionalism
A broad term that refers to all intellectual processes, perceiving, believing
Cognition
He was credited for the development of behaviorism
John B. Watson
School of psychology that states that was based in Conditioning and states that overt responses are emitted by organisms. It is also known as S-R Psychology
Behaviorism
Any aspect of the outside world that directly influences behavior or conscious experience
Stimulus
Anything an organism does such as turning toward or away from the stimulus
Response
It means that the child’s mind by birth is like a blank slate or tablet.
John Locke’s Tabula Rasa
This school of psychology originated in Germany which emphasized the organization and the quality of wholeness that inheres in both behavior and experience.
Gestalt
This approach was developed my Sigmund Freud which focuses on the unconscious mind as a determinant of behavior. It used techniques of hypnosis, dream analysis, and free association
Psychoanalysis
This approach views that humans possess an innate tendency to improve and determine their lives by the decisions they make.
Humanistic Psychology
This approach of psychology attends to the whole person; body mind and spirit.
Transpersonal psychology
What are the 6 approaches of psychology
Neurobiological
Behavioral
Cognitive
Psychoanalytical
Phenomenological
Eclectic
An approach that maintains a close link with physiology and perceives the brain and nervous system as the main key to human behavior
Neurobiological approach
A conservative approach found by J.B Watson that focuses exclusively on human behavior.
Behavioral Approach
An approach that argues that individuals do not passively respond to stimuli but actively process information in their brain before responding
Cognitive approach
An approach that focuses on the unconscious mental activities
Psychoanalytical approach
An approach that rejects the view that the individual is a passive result of uncontrollable forces. It focuses on the individuals active subjective experience
Phenomenological Approach
An approach that incorporates aspects of several theories of psychology
Eclectic approach
He is the father of modern philosophy
Rene Descartes
He is the father of traditional psychology
Aristotle
He was one of the Founders of Gestalt Psychology
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)
It is used to illustrate Freud’s Conception of the Human Psyche
The Iceberg Metaphor
Serves as the reservoir of all unpleasant tasks
Unconscious
It is found in the unconscious . It has no sense of right and wrong. Operates under the PLEASURE principle
Id (it)
Found in all 3 levels of consciousness. Serves as the mediating agent. Operates under the REALITY principle
Ego (self)
Found in the unconscious but has contact with reality. Represents standards and laws of society. MORAL PRINCIPLE
Superego (conscious)
Who were the leading humanists who developed humanistic approach
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
Who were the precursors of Transpersonal Psychology
Robert and Clark
