Psychology Chapter 1
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
