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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychology | scientific study of mental processes and behavior |
| Trephination | drilling holes into the skull to release bad spirits from the brain |
| Phrenology | “bumps” it the skull in a certain location are compared to a phrenology diagram to describe your personality |
| “Animal Magnetism” (Mesmerism) | people drink a fluid full of iron then magnets are moved around your body to spread the fluids |
| Wilhelm Wundt | the “Father of Modern Psychology,” first psychological lab on reaction |
| G. Stanley Hall | first psych lab at John Hopkins, helped establish APA |
| Structuralism | breaking down conciseness into individual structures |
| Introspection | why you are doing the things you are doing, the motive behind your feelings |
| Functionalism | evolution, natural selection, adaption |
| William James | first psychology text book, Principles of Psychology |
| Gestalt Psychology | everything added together, look at things as a whole instead of breaking it down |
| Psychoanalysis | say one thing, but you mean something else |
| Behaviorism | psychology is the study of behavior, scientific approach, you can’t study the conscious |
| Multiple Perspectives/Eclecticism | a lot of different things together, different perspectives |
| Psychoanalytic (Psychodynamic) Perspective | unconscious |
| Behavioral Perspective | we do what we do because of habit, how we were trained |
| Humanistic Perspective | reach goals, best you can be, full potential |
| Cognitive Perspective | thinking, the way our mind processes information |
| Biological Perspective | the way our physical body works, what it tells us to do |
| Sociocultural Perspective | how you act in different situations, places, context |
| Evolutionary Perspective | evolve over time to continue reproduction |
| Behavior Genetics Perspective | nature vs. nurture, born with behaviors because of your genes |
| Basic Research | done for the purpose of learning something new, doesn’t really help with anything |
| Applied Research | use information to solve a problem, to help the world |
| Biological Psychology (Biopsychology) | why we behave the way we do because of biology (brain, etc) |
| Developmental Psychology | how someone changes over time, all aspects of development, womb to tomb |
| Cognitive Psychology | way we process information |
| Personality Psychology | personality, characteristics, who we are |
| Social Psychology | group behavior, how we affect others behavior, how others affect our behavior |
| Clinical Psychology | therapy, apply knowledge of disorders to clinical patients, cannot prescribe medication |
| Psychiatry | can prescribe medication, med. school |
| Industrial/Organizational Psychology | office work/jobs, take knowledge and apply it to the work place |
| Educational Psychology | make the effectiveness of education better, what will make students learn better, works with teachers |
| School Psychology | works one on one with students why psychological problems, IEP |
| Quantitative Psychology (Psychometrics) | data analysis, test construction, statistics within psychology |
| Sport Psychology | works with athletes to better their game |
| Forensic Psychology | work with criminals, look at patterns with crime scenes, interrogation, |
| Environmental Psychology | how we are affected by the environment, physical surroundings |
| Experimental Psychology | only use experiments, mostly cause and effect |
| Positive Psychology | focuses on positives, doesn’t fix things that are wrong, expand the right |
| Abnormal Psychology | focuses on people with disorders |
| Human Factors Psychology (Engineering Psychology) | make things engineers make more user friendly |
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