Prologue: The Story Of Psychology Flashcards
Basic research
Builds on psychology’s knowledge base. Has long term goals.
Descartes
Believed in nature, dualism.
Applied research
Uses what we know to benefit others. Applies research to everyday life (short term problems)
APA
American psychological association
Monism
Soul and body can’t be separated
Plato
Nature rather than nurture
First to suggest that brain (in head) was responsible for our mental process
Aristotle
Plato’s student, empiricism, nurture, monist
Industrial/organizational psychology
Studies and advises on behavior in the workplace.
Cognitive neuroscience
Study of brain activity linked to mental activity
Clinical psychology
To study, assess, and treat troubled people with psychotherapy
Humanistic psychology
Maslow+Rogers
Current environment influences on growth potential and need for love and acceptance
Jean Piaget
Swiss biologist
Studied cognitive development of children
Carl Rogers
Abraham Maslow
Humanistic psychology
John B. Watson
B.E. Skinner
Behaviorist (overt behavior)
Edward Bradford Titchener
Used introspection
Introspection
Study of the structure of the mind
Asking people what they perceived
Structuralism
Study of the structure of the mind (introspection)
Social cultural psychology
How behaviors and thinking vary across situations and cultures
Wilhelm Wundt
First psychological experiment. Studied how it long it takes to know what you feel.
Dualism
Soul and body are separated
Psychiatry
Medical prof. Use drugs and psychotherapy to treat psychologically diseased patients
Cognitive psychology
How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
Counseling psychology
Helps people cope with academic, vocational, and marital challenges.
Margaret Washburn
First woman with a PhD from Harvard. Wrote ‘ the animal mind’, studied memory and the mind. Second female president if the APA.