Psych

Structuralism

Understanding the conscious experience through introspection

Functionalism

Perspective focused on how mental activities help an organism adapt to its environment

Psychoanalytic theory

Perspective that focuses on the role of the unconscious in affecting conscious behavior

Gestalt Psychology

Type of psychology that focuses on humans as a whole rather than individual parts

Behaviorism

Perspective that focuses on observing and controlling behavior

Humanism

Perspective that emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans

Wilhelm Wundt

Creator of the first laboratory for phycological research, emphasized structuralism and introspection

William James

The first American psychologist, a functionalist

Sigmund Freud

Founder of Psychoanalytic theory, studies hysteria and neurosis

Gestalt

Kohler, Koffka, and Wertheimer were German psychologists who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi Germany and are associated with ______ psychology: based on the idea that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception

Ivan Pavlov

Classical conditioning was discovered by ___ ____

John B Watson

Father of behaviorism in psychology, believed that objective analysis of the mind was impossible and instead focused on observable behavior

B. F. Skinner

Psychologist who concentrated on how behavior was affected by its consequences (reinforcement and punishment, operant conditioning).

Humanism

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is associated with what psychological perspective

Carl Rogers

Client centered therapy involves the patient taking a lead role in the therapy session. Who developed this method

Noam Chomsky

Influential psychologist in the beginning of the cognitive revolution in the 1950s

Margaret Floy Washburn

First woman to earn a doctorate in Psychology in 1984

Developmental

____ psychology studies the physical and mental attributes of aging and maturation

Jean Piaget

Psychologist famous for his theories regarding changes in cognitive ability that occur as we move from infancy to adulthood

Five-factor

The ____-____ model uses the acronym OCEAN (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)

Psychological, biological, and social

The biopsychosocial model suggests that health and illness is determined by an interaction of these three factors:

Industrial-organizational

Branch that involves issues related to personnel management, organizational

structure and workplace environment

Forensic psychology

Branch dealing with the justice system