Chapter 1 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Tend to not have Ph.D, less training and less severe situation
Counsellors
Works with patients, diagnosis & treatment of psychological problems (Ph.D & extensive training; internships
Clinical Psychologist
M.D. + Specialization and prescribe medication
Psychiatrists
Design objects and equipment for optimal use
Human Factor (Applied Psychologist)
Offices or business settings, they help hire people and they look into things such as the best training methods and finds ways to help retain them
Industrial/Organizational (Applied Psychologist)
Work in legal/justice system, evaluate if person is fit to stand trial, sex offender is fit to go back into the community
Forensic (Applied Psychologist)
Works with students for academic performance or social adjustment
School (Applied Psychologist)
Looks at how instructors teach and students learn so then they try to find ways to improve the school curriculum
Educational (Applied Psychologist)
Use motivation and emotion to try and apply it to athletes for sports performances
Sports (Applied Psychologist)
Establish first psychology lab and changed psychology from a philosophy to a science
Wilhelm Wundt (Structuralism)
Studied elements of conscious experience and developed introspection (description of your own experience)
Edward Titchener (Structuralism)
Described organization in mental processes and observed sensory and perceptual phenomena
Max Wertheimer (Gestalt Psychology)
Help understand the purpose of mental process and natural observation of animal/behaviour
William James (Functionalism)
Made psychology an objective science to study observable behaviour and explain behaviour by learning these principles, observing relationships between environment stimuli and behaviour responses, and behaviour modification
John B. Watson + B.F. Skinner (Behaviourism)
Focusing on subconscious by using hypnosis and dream analysis
Sigmund Freud (Psychoanalysis)
Under the right conditions, all humans have potential and provides unconditional support
Abraham Maslow + Carl Rogers (Humanism)