Unit 1 Terms Flashcards
Behavioral Approach
Observable Events; External Environment
Cognitive Approach
Thought processes (ow people (and other animals) process, store, and retrieve information and how this information is used to reason and solve problems)
Humanistic Approach
Self-Potential; Internal Environment (How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment)
Psycho dynamic Approach
how our unconscious mind influences behavior, personality and feelings
Biological Approach
How the brain, nervous system, genetics, etc. are associated with behavior
Psychological Perspectives
All explain behavior; All are Complentary
Provider Career
Individual Treatment
Child Psychologist
Mental, Social, Emotion, Development (Provider)
Counseling Psychologist
Someone to talk to; General Issues; day to day coping (Provider)
Clinical Psychologist
Specific Disorders (Provider)
School Psychologist
Deal directly with students; Achievement of educational goal (Provider)
Development Psychologist
Development over the course of your life (Research)
Educational Psychologist
Effective teaching and learning practice (Research)
Industrial/ Organizational Psychologist
Improving the workplace; increasing morale and productivity (Research)
Cognitive Psychologist
Perception, thinking and memory (Research)
Social Psychologist
Affect of social interactions (Research)
Evolutionary Psychologist
How we mentally adapt (Research)
Forensic Psychologist
Psychology in the legal world
Sports Psychologist
Mental state of Athletes
Aristotle
Knowledge develops through experience
Plato & Socrates
Psychology is not Empirical, Innate Knowledge
Rene Descartes
Dualism: Separates Physical & Mental natures (Interactions create experiences)
Sir Francis Bacon
Developed Inductive Method: collect, compare, and exclude qualities of data
John Locke
Empiricism: Knowledge through observation
Charles Darwin
Natural Selection
Wilhelm Wundt
First Pysch Lab - Univ. of Leipzig, Germany
G. Stanley Hall
First Amer. Lab- John Hopkins Univ.
Edward Titchener
Student of Wundt; Structuralism( How do elements of the mind form consciousness
Introspection
Structuralism Method: Observation & Self-Reporting
Washburn
1st Woman PhD (Mental events are as significant as behavioral events) Mental events should be studied
Mary Whiton Calkins
1stFemale President of APA
APA
American Psychologist Association
Empiricism
View that knowledge originates from experience and observation
Psychiatry
A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders
Structuralism
An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind
Functionalism
A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable us to adapt, survive and flourish
Human Factors Psychology
The study of how people and machines interact and the design of safe and easily used machines and environments
Basic Research
Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base
Psychometrics
The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes and traits
