CP Psychology Unit 1 Terms

Ivan Povlov

Russian psychologist and learning theorist that came up with classical conditioning

Abraham Maslow

Humanistic psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of needs

Carl Rodgers

Humanistic psychologist known for client-centered therapy and unconditional positive regard

Jean Piaget

Pioneer of the study of developmental psychology and introduced a stage therapy for cognitive development

BF Skinner

American Behavioral psychologist who devolved the basic principle of operate conditioning

Humanistic perspective

The school of though that focuses on how healthy people try to reach their full potential

Cognitive Perspective

The school of though that focused on how people think

Biological perspective

The school of thought that focused on physical structures and substances

Social-cultural perspective

The school of thought that focused on how behavior and thinking change in different situations

Evolutionary perspective

The School of thought that focused on how natural selection to study the roots of our behavior and mental processes

Behavior genetics

Focuses on how much our genes and environment influence our individual differences

Positive psychology

A movement in psychology that focuses on the study of optimal human functioning

Psychology

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Basic research

To increase the scientific knowledge base of psychology

Applied research

Research intended to solve practical problems

William Wundt

Founder of modern psychology and opened the first psychology lab

Structuralism

The first major school of thought that tried to understand the structure of conscious experience through its basic parts

Edward Titchener

Founder of structuralism

Gestalt Psychology

Our Psychology to integrate pieces of information into meaningful ways

Functionalism

How consciousness helps people adapt to their environment

William James

First American psychologist who had the first lecture in America and first textbook

Sigmund Freud

Came up with psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic technique and theory of personality that attributes to our thoughts and actions

Behaviorism

The theory that psychology should only study observable behavior

John B Watson

The psychologist that came up with the idea of behaviorism