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Mary Calkins

First female president of the APA

Charles Darwin

-Evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker die out) wrote On the Origin of Species

Dorothea Dix

A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendant of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War.

Signumd Freud: id/ego/superego

Freud's proposal that the human psyche could be divided into these 3 parts. Unconscious; rational balance; consciousness

G. Stanley Hall

american psychologist who established the first psychology research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological Association

William James

founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment

Wilhelm Wundt

german physiologist who founded psychology as a formal science; opened first psychology research laboratory in 1879

Plato - Psychology

human beings only do what we believe to be the best of the things we can do, so that all wrongdoing is due to ignorance and is therefore involuntary

Socrates on psychology

Believed mind separable from body (dualism), further believing that the mind continues after death. He also viewed knowledge as built from within. Would say things were part of your genetics. Prescientific.

Structuralism

an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure 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.

Behaviorism

the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).

Gestalt

an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

Psychoanalytic

study of the unconscious, includes childhood and aggression issues

Humanistic

study that says that humans are basically good and possess a free will

evolutionary psychology

the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection

biological psychology

the scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes

Cognitive Psychology

the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

Biopsychosocial

an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis

Sociocultural

study of how cultural and political experiences affect our life

Biological Domain

Humans are collections of biological systems, and these systems provide building blocks for behavior, thought, and emotion

Clinical Domain of Psychology

a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

Cognitive Domain

An area of development that involves patterns of change in children's intellectual abilities, including reasoning, learning, attention, memory, and language skills.

Counseling Domain

a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being

Developmental Domain

An area of development such as fine and gross motor skills, cognitive abilities, self-help capabilities, and social and communication skills.

Educational Domain of Psychology

studies how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning

Experimental Domain of Psychology

uses experiments and the scientific method to expand our knowledge of behavior and thinking

Industriral-Organizational Domain

The specialty of Industrial Organizational Psychology addresses issues of recruitment, selection and placement, training and development, performance measurement, workplace motivation and reward systems, quality of work life, structure of work and human factors, organizational development and consumer behavior.

Personality Domain

the study of an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Psychometric Domain of Psychology

the field in psychology devoted to testing, measurement, assessment and related activities

social domain

the domain that focuses on an individual's relationships within family, social groups, and the community

positive domain of psychology

understanding and promoting aspects of human experience, like finding ways to be happy ig?