Handout 2 Flashcards
Made up by four temperaments of the founder FRANZ JOSEF GALL during 19th CENTURY.
Hippocrates
The first experimental psychology laboratory established in LEIPZIG, GERMANY by WILHEM WUNDT
1897
Four kind of temperaments
Sanguine ( cheerful&active)
Melancholic (sad)
Choleric (angry&aggressive)
Phlegmatic (calm&passive)
Five kinds of perspective
Biological Psychodynamic Cognitive Behavioral Humanistic
Believes that behavior is MOTIVATED BY INNER FORCE and CONFLICTS OVER which the individual has little AWARENESS AND CONTROL
Psychodynamic Perspective
Considers the BEHAVIOR OF BOTH PEOPLE AND ANIMAL in terms of BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING.
Biological Perspective
Seeks to explain HOW WE PROCESS INFORMATION and how our ways of thinking about the world influence our behavior.
Cognitive Perspective
Suggests that OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOR SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF THE FIELD.
Behavioral Perspective
Suggests that PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY ENDOWED with the capacity to MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR LIVES and to CONTROL THEIR BEHAVIOR
Humanistic Perspective
Process of sensing, perceiving, learning and thinking about the world.
Experimental psychology
Specializes in BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR. Focuses on the OPERATION OF THE BRAIN and NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Biopsychology psychology
Studies how people grow and change from moment of conception through death
Developmental psychology
Attempts to explain both consistency and change in a person’s behavior over time.
Personality psychology
Relationship between psychological factors and physical aliments or disease
Health Psychology
Deals with the study of DIAGNOSIS, and TREATMENT OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
Clinical Psychology
Focuses primarily on EDUCATION, SOCIAL and CAREER adjustment problems.
Counseling Psychology
Specialty area devoted to ASSESSING CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY and SECONDARY SCHOOLS who have ACADEMIC or EMOTIONAL problems and developing solutions to such problems.
School Psychology
Concerned with TEACHING and LEARNING process. Focuses in understanding intelligence, developing better teaching techniques, and understanding teacher-student interaction.
Educational Psychology
Study of how people’s thoughts, feelings and actions are affected by others. Focus in such divers topics as human agressions, liking, loving, persuasion and confronting.
Social Psychology
Psychology of the workspace. Considers issues such as PRODUCTIVITY, JOB SATISFACTION, and DECISION MAKING.
Industrial/organizational psychology
Broad range of issues such as discrimination against women, the possibility that structural differences exist in men’s and women’s brains, the effect of hormones on behavior, and the cause of violence against women.
Psychology of womens
Analyzes people’s BUYING HABITS and the effects of adverstieing on buyer behavior.
Consumer Psychology
Investigates the similarity and differences in psychology functioning in various cultures and ethnic groups.
Cross-Cultural Psychocolgy
Seeks identify behavior patterns that are results of our genetic inheritance from our ancestors.
Evolutionary Psychology
Focuses relationship between biological factors
Clinical Neuropsychology
Relationship between people and their environment
Environmental Psychology
Large scale programs usually managed by government
Program Evaluation
Application of psychology to athletic activity and exercise
Sports and Experience Psychology
An operation chipping away at a patient’s skull with crude stone instrument until a hole was cut through the bone 500,000 years ago.
Trephining
