Unit 1 Flashcards
(43 cards)
Sigmund Freud was the champion of
Psychodynamic Psychology
An approach to understanding human behavior that focuses on the role of the unconscious.
Psychodynamic psychology
Anxiety, depression, and sexual dysfunction were the result of painful experiences from childhood.
Psychodynamic Psychology
Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson
Psychodynamic psychology
It is impossible to study the mind, so psychologists should study behavior
Behaviorism
John B. Watson
Behaviorism
Ivan Pavlov
Behaviorism
Stimuli&responses
Behaviorism
B. F. Skinner
Rewards system with behaviorism
Field that studies mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, judgement.
Cognitive approach
Hermann Ebbinhaus
Cognitive Approach
Frederic Bartlett
Cognitive Approach
Our thinking has a powerful influence on behavior, the cognitive approach provided a distinct alternative to behaviorism
Cognitive approach
When we take into consideration how stimuli are evaluated and interpreted, we understand behavior more deeply.
Cognitive behavior
Neuroimaging
The use of various techniques to provide pictures of the structure and function of the living brain.
Study of how social situations and the cultures in which people find themselves influence thinking and behavior.
Social-cultural Psychology
Conformity
Social-cultural psychology
What are the fundamental differences in social norms in western culture and East Asian culture?
Western culture: individualism
East Asian: Collectivism
School most familiar to the general public.
Psychodynamic Psychology
A major goal of psychology
Predict Behavior
Comes from Greek words meaning “life and explanation”
Psychology
The tendency to think that we could have predicted something that has already occurred that we probably would not have been able to predict.
Hindsight bias
Psychologists use this to collect, analyze, and interpret evidence.
Scientific method
Can’t be considered either true or false
Values