General Psychology Fields Flashcards
Abnormal psychology
looks to study, understand, diagnose, and treat psychological disorders. Must cause an impairment in one’s life.
Positive Psychology
A branch off humanistic psychology where we look at health and well-being of mental functions.
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic psychology
Looks at the unconscious and conscious mind and it’s interaction that stemmed from early childhood. Freud and Jung.
Jung’s contributions to psychodynamic psychology
Focused more on the integration of different parts of a person.
Behaviorism Theory
Looks at observable behavior that people learn from their environment. Look at conditioning. Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, and Skinner.
Cognitive behavioral theory
Look at how a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior interact.
Cognitive psychology
Looks at the internal process of memory, problem solving, and language. Piaget.
Humanistic perspective
Humans have an innate drive for self-realization. People are innately good, rather than disorders. Maslow and Rogers.
Personality Psychology
Looks at patterns of idiosyncratic, long-standing characteristics. Psychodynamic, neo-Freudian, Learned, Humanistic, Biological, Trait,
Educational psychology
Looks at how education environments affect children. Look mostly at Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.
Social Psychology
The scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
Investigates the effects of several cognitive biases, including the fundamental attribution error, the actor-observer bias, the self-serving bias, and the just-world hypothesis.
Cultural psychology
Look at how culture influences behavior, thought and feelings. Vygotsky–Cultural-Historical Psychology.
Biopsychological
Look at genetic, physiological, and psychological aspects that influence behavior.
Developmental Psychology
Looks at how we develop as individuals. Three domains: physical, cognitive and psychosocial. Freud, Piagets, Kohlberg and Erikson.
Evolutionary psychology
Human behavior is a result of psychological adaptations and natural selection
