Question | Answer |
Socrates | Plato's teacher, believed mind and body are connected. Came before Plato. |
Plato | Believed mind and body are seperate, with brain taking care off all mental processes |
Aristotle | Believed mind and body are connected. Came after Plato and Socrates. |
Descartes | Believed mind and body interacted, connected but seperate. Some "ideas" are innate. |
Bacon | Founded scientific method. Empiricism |
Locke | Believed "ideas" are not innate, people are a "blank slate" |
Empiricism | Knowledge from "experience" |
Introspection | Looking inward |
Functionalism | Focuses on how mental and behavioral processes function |
Structuralism | Used introspection to explore elemental structure of human mind. |
James | Funtionalist,Consider the evolved functions |
Titchener | Created structuralism; look into the structure of the mind. |
Freud | Discovered psychoanalysis; study of human psychological functioning and behavior. |
Behaviorism | The view that Psychology is (1) an objective science and (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
Cognitive Psychology | Study of thinking, processing, and storing information |
Humanistic Psychology | Study of the growth potential of healthy people and individuals potential for growth |
Developmental Psychology | Studies the human changes from birth to death |
Psychoanalysis | Study of human psychological functioning and behavior |
Social Psychology | Studies the behavior of groups and the influence of social factors on the individual |
Evolutionary Psychology | Study of the psychological adaptations of humans to the changes in environment |
Clinical Psychology | Studies, asseses and treats people with psychological disorders |
Personality Psychology | Studies the patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior that makes a person unique |
Industrial/Organizational Psychology | Applies psychological theories and principals to organizations |
Health Psychology | Applies psychological theory and knowledge to promote personal and public health |
Psychology | (lit. "study of the soul" or "study of the mind"[1]) is an academic and applied discipline which involves the scientific study of human or animal mental functions and behaviors |