Psychology Chapter 1

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John B. Watson

Behaviorism

Margaret Floy Washburn

First woman to receive a PhD in psychology

Carl Jung

Founded analytical psychology

Abraham Maslow

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization

Evolutionary Psychology

An approach to, and subfield of, psychology that is concerned with

Positive Psychology

An emerging field of psychology that focuses on the positive experience, including subjective well-being, self-determination, the relationship between positive emotions and physical health, and the factors that allow the individuals communities, an social societies to flourish.

Elizabeth Loftus

Cognitive

Psychodynamics Theories

Personality theories contending that behavior results from psychological forces that interact within the individual, often outside conscious awareness.

Cognitive Psychology

School of psychology devoted to the study of mental process in the broadest sense

Humanistic Psychology

School of psychology that emphasizes non-verbal experience and altered states of consciousness as a mean of realizing one's full human potential

Gestalt Psychology

School of psychology that studies how people perceive and experience objects as whole patterns

Behaviorism

School of psychology that studies only observable and measurable behavior

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalys

Albert Bandura

Social learning theory

Philip Zimbardo

Stanford prison experiment

Psychology

The science of behavior and mental processes

Functionalist Theory

Theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment.

B.F. Skinner

behaviorist

Howard Gardner

developmental psychologist


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