Question | Answer |
psychiatry | a branch of medicine that deals with mental emotional or behavioral disorders. |
structuralist | a psycologist that who studied basic elements that make up the conscious mental experiances |
introspection | a method of self-observation in which participants report on there thoughts and feelings. |
functionalist | a psycologist who studied the function of consciousness.. |
psychoanalyst | a psycologist that studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior. |
behaviorist | to analyze how organisms lewarn and modify their behavior based on their response to events in their enviornment. |
humanist. | a psycologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth. |
cognitivist | a psycologiast that studies how we process, store, retrive, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior. |
psychobiologist | study of how the brain, nervouse system, and hormones geneticsinfluence our behavior |
dualism | the belief that a human being embodies two parts, as body and soul;the view that substances are either material or mental. |
Gestault Psychology | The study of how sensations are assembled into perceptual experiances. |
socioculture psychology | ethnicity, gender,culture, and socioconomic status influence our behavior |
Psychiatry | a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders |
clinical psychiatry | i psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances |
counseling psychologist | a psychologist who usually helps people deal with problems of living |
Developmental psychologist | a psychologist who studies the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures |
educational pschologist | a psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn |
community psychologist | a psychologist who may work in a mental health or social welfare agency |
industrial/ orginazational psychologist | a psychologist who uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environjment for employees and managers |
experimental psychologist | a psychologist who studies sensation, perception, learning, motivation, and emotion in carefully controlled laboratory conditions |
environmental psychologist | a psychologist who studies the effects of the enviorment on people |
forensic psychologist | a psychologist who diagnosis, evaluates, treats, and gives a testomeny regarding the law and criminal behavior |
APA Divisions | helps people learn about psychology |