Chapter 1 Flashcards
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A medical doctor (MD) who has completed a 3 year residency in psychiatry to learn how to diagnose and treat mental disorders under the supervision of more experienced physicians
psychiatrist
person who practices psychoanalysis, and has obtained specialized training at a psychoanalytic institute and undergone extensive psychoanalysis personally.
psychoanalyst
what are 8 critical thinking steps
ask questions, define terms, examine evidence, analyze assumptions and bias, avoid emotional reasoning, don’t over simplify , consider other interpretations, tolerate uncertainty.
the ability and willingness to access claims and make objective judgement on the basis of well supported reasons and evidence rather than emotion and anecdote.
critical thinking
pseudoscience and quackery covered by a veneer of psychological and scientific sounding language.
psychobabble
a psychological approach that emphasizes personal growth and the achievement of human potential rather than scientific understanding.
humanist psychology
a psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of instinctual energy.
psychodynamic perspective
a psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings and thoughts
biological perpective
the discipline concerned with behaviour and mental processes and how they are affected by an organisms state, mental state, and external environment.
psychology
the now discredited theory that different brain areas account for specific character and personality traits.
phrenology
an early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements
structuralism
a psychological approach that analyzes the influence of social inequalities on gender relations, and the behaviour of the two sexes
feminist psychology
unregulated person who does any kind of psychotherapy
psychotherapist
a psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural influences on behaviour
sociocultural perspective
a psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving and other areas of behaviour
cognitive perspective
an approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behaviour and the role of the environment as a determinant of behaviour
behaviourism
a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy originally formulated by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts
psychoanalysis
providing health or mental health services
psychological practice
a psychological approach that emphasizes how the environment and experience affecte a persons or animals actions, it includes social cognitive and learning theories
learning perspective
a field of psychology emphasizing evolutionary mechanisms that may help explain human commonalities in cognitive development, emotion, social practices and other areas of behaviour
evolutionary psychology
the study of psychological issues that have direct practical significance also the application of psychological findings
applied psychology
study of psychological issues in order to seek knowledge for its own sake rather than for its practical application
basic psychology
an early psychological approach that emphasized the function or purpose of behaviour and consciousness
functionalism
relying on from observation, experiment or measurement.
empirical
