Empiricism
Observation and experimentation
Structuralism
Introspection that reveals structure of human mind
Funtionalism
Enables organism to adapt, survive, and flourish
experimental psychology
the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method
Behaviorism
Idea that psych should study without mental processes
human psychology
Growth potential of healthy people
Cognitive Psychology
the interdisciplinary study of the including perception, thinking, memory, and language
Psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
nature-nurture issue
the controversy over the relative contributions of biology and experience
natural selection
Trait variations passed on to survive and reproduce
levels of analysis
Different views for analyzing any given phenomenon
Biopsychology approach
Biological psychological and social cultural levels of analysis
Behavioral psychology
Observable behavior due to learning
Biological psychology
Links between biological and psychological processes
Cognitive psychology
Mental activities like thinking knowing membrane in speaking
Evolutionary psychology
Evolution of behavior and mind using natural selection
Psychodynamic psychology
Unconscious behavior information used to treat mental disorders
social-cultural psychology
Situation and cultures affect behavior and thinking
Psychometrics
Measurement of abilities attitudes and traits
Basic research
Pure science to increase the Scientific knowledge base
Development psychology
Physical cognitive and social change throughout life span
Educational psychology
Psychological processes affect/enhance teaching and learning
personality psychology
Person characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting
Social psychology
How we think about influence and relate to others
Applied research
Aims to solve practical problems
Industrial organize psychology
Human behavior in workplaces
Human factor psychology
How people and machines interact i
counseling psychology
a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being
Clinical psychology
Treat people with psychological disorders
Psychiatricy
Medicine dealing with psychological disorders (therapist or physician)
Positive psychology
Functioning with goals and achievements
Testing effect
enhanced memory after retrieving
SQ3R
Survey, Question, Read, Retrieve, Review
Wilhelm Wundt
Created idea of introspection and structuralism
G. Stanley Hall
Evolution theory and development over lifespan idea
William James
Had the theory of functionalism
Mary Whiton Calkins
First female president of the APA
Margaret Floy Washburn
First female to be awarded a PhD in psychology; 2nd president of the APA (1921)
Sigmund Freud
Studied unconscious dreams through dream analysis
John B. Watson
Created theory behaviorism and studied psychological discipline
B.F. Skinner
Idea reinforcement-stimuli to encourage or discourage responses
Carl Rogers
founder of humanistic approach
Ivan Pavlov
Developed testing the concept of reflex and instinct
John Piaget
First to make a systematic study of acquisition and understanding in children
Charles Darwin
Natural selection theory and how we change over time
Dorothy Dix
Expanded over 30 hospitals for treatment of the mentally ill
Aristotle
Ask questions to understand the relationship between body and psyche
Abraham Maslow
Idea of humanism
Edward Titchener
Engage people in introspection reporting sensations and experience of a moment