Types Of Psych Flashcards
Experimental
Study natures of basic processes like learning, memory, emotion etc…companies hire people for their marketing and public Opinion Exs:Pavlova dog or little Albert
Developmental
Study of behavior whitin an age period, largest field so broken into subtypes
Clinical
Study diagnose, cause, treatment or disorders
Showing pictures to cure someone of somthing
Industrial
Study the natures of humans at work(scientific management) make the work place efficient but can cause problems to workers
Environmental
Study of environment on humans
Cities Vs. Country side
Consumer
Focuses on the nature of human consumers, what makes people by certain things
Success- nikes “just do it”
Failure- “herb the nerd” Burger King
Defense mechanisms: denial
Not wanting to believe something
Defense mechanisms: Displacement
Taking out impulses on a less threatening target
Defense mechanisms: intellectualization
Avoiding emotions… Acting like nothing happened
Defense mechanisms: projection
Placing unacceptable impulses in yourself into another … When losing a argument you say “your stupid”
Defense mechanisms: rationalization
Supplying a logical reason as opposed to the real reason… Making excuses… I failed because the teacher hates me vs. You really didn’t study
Defense mechanisms: reaction formation
Covering true feelings by doing opposite…I hate blacks so I have support them fully
Defense mechanisms: Regression
Acting like a kid
Defense mechanisms: repression
Pulling into the unconscious… Trauma-forgetting
Defense mechanisms: Sublimation
Acting out a bad trait in a socially accepted way… Great at fighting, you’d become a pro boxer
Defense mechanisms: Suppression
Pushing into the unconscious.. Trying to forget something that causes you anxiety.. Like not doing homework
Who is Jung?
Former disciple of Freud Believed in personal unconscious and collective unconscious. Persona Anima/animus Introverts/Extroverts
Who is b.F. Skinner?
Personality is filled with traits that were positively reinforced. However some traits like shyness are different
Who is bandura?
Called “modeling” which is when you get traits from imitating others.
Bobo doll experiment
What is behaviorists?
Don’t believe in the conscious and we know how and what traits we have
Who is Karen horney?
Parent child relationship is important and anxiety was a factor of personality.
Who is Adler?
Believes UC is less of a factor in personality. We all build our personality to become perfect
You either are normal an help others or abnormal and try to become perfect
Describe ancients?
Limited to lack of knowledge and was religiously based so believed MI were demons
Would do Excerciums or tree panning
Many banded and killed because MI were seen as a threat
Classical civilizations?
Hippocrates (first doctor)
First to do dissections(body) because they weren’t religiously restrained
Four fluid theory (blood, yellow&black bile, phlegm)
First to make homes for MI and taken good care of an discovers time and care would cure some MI