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Psychology ch. 1
areas of specialization, modern approaches, & contributors to psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What degree do you need to become a psychologist? | Ph.d or masters |
| What do clinical psychologist do? | They work with ppl with serious mental illness. |
| What percent of psychologist are clinical? | 49% |
| What is the largest area of specialization in psychology? | Clinical |
| what do developmental psychologist do? | Womb-tomb. Examines development throughout a persons entire life. |
| Experimental psychology? | Areas of sensation, perception, learning, human performance, motivation. |
| What is another name for Biological psychology? | psychobiology |
| biological psychology? | researches physical &chemical changes during stress, learning, and emotions. also genetic make-up, brain, and nervous system. |
| cognitive psychology? | How we process, store, and retrieve information, and how cognitive processes influence our behavior. |
| Psychometrics? | Focuses on measurements of peoples ability, skills, intelligence, personality, & abnormal behaviors. |
| what are the goals of psychology? | Describe, explain, predict, & control |
| what does cognitive mean? | thinking process |
| Biological approach? | focuses on the working of our genes, hormones, and nervous system. |
| cognitive approach? | how we process, store, and use information. |
| behavioral approach? | studies how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones, by reward or punishment. |
| psychoanalytic approach? | stresses the influence of unconscious fears, desires, and motivations on thought, behaviors & the development of personality traits & psychological problems in later life. |
| humanistic approach? | emphasizes that each individual has freedom in directing her future, large capacity for personal growth. *ALL ABOUT YOU* |
| why are a small percentage of autistics call "savants"? | Because they have incredible artistic or memory skills |
| What doe the biological approach to psychology focus on? | unconscious processes |
| what is one of the most powerful new techniques in the biological approach? | taking computerized photos of the activity of living brains |
| who was the major contributor to the behavioral approach to psychology? | B.F. Skinner |
| which approach is the great importance of the unconscious stressed in? | psychoanalytic |
| Who was one of the major figures of the humanistic approach to psychology? | Abraham Maslow |
| What is the newest approach to psychology? | cognitive |
| The cross-cultural approach studies the influence of what psychological funtion? | cultural and ethnic similarities and differences |
| Who wrote the first textbook in psychology? | William James |
| Who was the pioneering psychologist who offered the famous guarantee about being able to shape a baby into any type of specialist you might want was? | John B. Watson |
| John B. Watson wanted psychology to be? | an objective, scientific study of observable behavior. |
| today women in psychology? | earn more Ph.D degrees than men |
| what did Albert Bandura do? | social learning theory |
| Mary Calkins? | she was denied a doctorate in psychology by harvard. |
| Ruth howard? | first african-american to recevie ph.d in psychology. |
| william james? | studied function of conscious activity. |
| Abraham maslow? | humanistic psychology movement |
| Willhelm Wundt? | first laboratory for psychological research |
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