Psychology

Psychologist to introduce the concept of reinforcement

B.F. Skinner

How do you humanistic psychologist differ from behaviorist

Behaviorist believe that behavior is conditioned and humanistic believe that behavior is free choice

Imagining yourself to heal exam, relaxed and calm, answering all the questions. What psychological method are you using to influence your behavior during the exam

Positive visualization

Is the goal of a psychological theory

Predicting behavior or mental processes

Is one difference between a theory and a principal

Principles are basic laws and theories or specific attempts to explain things

Research methods that are used by psychologist

Surveys and experimentation

What is considered behavior

Talking sleeping digestion running interaction i.e. anything people can observe or measure

When was modern psychology born

The 1800s, after birth of modern science

School of psychology focused on human consciousness, experience, and self-awareness

The humanistic perspective

Goals of psychology

To observe and describe explain predict and control

Early psychoanalysis practitioners believed this was the cause of behavior

Unconscious motives and conflicts

Who wrote the first modern psychology textbook

William James

Action that can be observed or measured

Behavior

And what field do most psychologists practice

Clinical psychology

Mental process such as a dream or memory

Cognitive activity

What is the focus of contemporary psychoanalytic perspective

Conscious choice and self direction

School of psychology that describes experience as a whole rather than broken down into parts

Gestalt psychology

Sigmund Freud's difference from early psychologist

He gained understanding of human behavior from consultations with patients

What did William James focused on

How mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment

Focus on the modern biological perspective of psychology

Influence of biology on behavior

Which school of psychology believe in birth order

Psychoanalytic

What is the name of Freud's theory that assumes that most of what exists in an individuals mind is unconscious

Psychodynamic

What is the definition of the science of psychology

Scientific study of behavior and mental processes

School of psychology that works at the basic elements of conscious experience

Structuralism

According to Gestalt psychologist, how is much learning accomplished

Sudden insight

How did the school of behaviorism define psychology

The scientific study of observable behavior

What are functionalists primarily concerned with

Whitman told processes would you help organisms adapt to their environment

Founded structuralism

Wilhelm Wundt

What will you do the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates have in common with present day psychologist

Confusion bizarre behavior are caysed by abnormalities in the brain

How did Wilhelm Wundt break down consciousness

Into objective sensations and subjective feelings

Method of learning that stresses examining one's own thoughts and feelings

Introspection

In what way is psychology closely related to natural science

It's reliance on scientific research methodologies

Founder of the school of behaviorism

John B. Watson

why do psychologists feel it is necessary to perform psychological research on humans rather than only on animals

Only experiments with humans can provide information on such unique we human beings as morality and values

What is the gelstalt principle of similarity

Similar objects tend to be perceived as a united whole

Ask her who stress the importance of introspection

Socrates