Psych - Module 1 Flashcards
Cognitive
Focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
Behaviorism
Focuses on how we learned observable responses.
Functionalism
Theory that emphasizes the functions of the mind and how consciousness helped people adapt to their environment.
Applied Research
Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.
Gestalt
Psychological system that focuses on how people organize their perceptions and combined sensory elements to produce new patterns.
Humanistic
A system focusing on the study of conscious experience, freed will, and capacity for personal growth.
Positive Psychology
Focuses on the study of optimal human functioning and the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive.
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic Perspective; it focuses on how behaviour springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.
Basic Research
Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base.
Perspective
A means of classifying a collection of ideas that grows into a movement.
Structuralism
Theory that emphasizes analyzing components of conscious thought to determine its structure.
Behavior Genetics
Focused on how much our heredity/genes and our environment influence individual differences.
Psychology
The scientific study if the mind and behavior.
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
“Focusing on the inner person.” Unconscious drives, memories and conflicts determine personality and behavior.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Developed the theory of psychoanalysis.
What are the 5 Psychological Perspectives?
Cognitive Evolutionary/Biological Sociocultural Behavioral Humanistic Psychodynamic
Who is Erik Erikson?
Created the Stages of Psychosocial Development with each stage presenting a crisis or conflict that the individual must resolve.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Studied cognitive perspective.
What is assimilation?
The process in which people understand an experience based on their currents state of cognitive developments and ways of thinking.
What is accommodation?
Changes in existing ways of thinking in response to encounter with new stimuli or events.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
Russian Psychologist who studied sociocultural theory.
What is the sociocultural theory?
A full understanding of development is impossible without taking into account the culture/setting/situation in which children develop. (influenced by others)
What is Behavioral Perspective?
“Considering the outer person.” All behaviour is learned as a response to external stimuli.
Who are John B. Watson and B.F Skinner?
Founders of behaviourism and studied classical and operant conditioning.
