what is psychology Flashcards
psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
psychoanalytic
unconscious determinants of behavior
psychoanalytic basic premise
motives and early childhood experiences govern personality and mental disorders
psychoanalytic psychologists
freud, adler
behavioral
effects of environment
behavioral basic premise
only observed
psychologists
watson, pavlov
humanistic
aspects of human experiences
humanistic basic premise
humans are free and can grow
not like animals
humanistic psychologists
Rogers, Maslow
cognitive
thoughts / mental processes
cognitive basic premise
humans cant be fully understood without examining other people
cognitive psychologists
Piaget, chomsky
biological
psychological basis of human and animal behavior
biological basic premise
an organisms function can be explained in bodily structure and biochemical process
biological psychologists
olds, sperry
evolutionary
evolution needs
evolution basic premise
behavior patterns evolve to solve adaptive problems
evolution psychologists
buss, daly
socio-cultural
a child would grow to become an adult and come to develop thoughts, behaviors and beliefs
biopsychosocial
to understand ones medical condition
the first scientist to propose a biological theory of abnormality
Hippocrates
Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle were
greek
1st women to the president APA
Mary Calkins
