What did Rene Descartes do?

What is interactive dualism

Who is Wilhelm Wundt? What did he do?

Who created stucturalism?

Process in which someone examines their own conscious experience in attempt to break it into its components. 

What is structuralism?

Who created functionalism?

A school of thought focused on how mental activities helped an organism adapt to its enviroment.

What did functionalists believe?

What are the THREE forces in psychology?

Who created psychoanalysis

What is psychoanalysis?

Contains the thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but nonetheless have great influence on conscious behavior.

Refers to any observable response or activity by an organism. 

Focuses on OBSERVING and CONTROLLING behavior.

Perspective in psychology that emphasizes that potential for good in all humans.

Match ideas with theories.

All current major perspectives (there are 6 of them)

The study of cognition, or thoughts, and their relationships to experiences and actions.

The study of how biology influences behavior.

Examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective.

Ex: Taste aversion keeping someone from eating something thats previously got them sick. 

Area of psychology that focuses on diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior.

Area of psychology that focuses on improving emotional, social, vocational, and other aspects of the lives of people.

The study of the mind and behavior.

Scientific study of development across ones lifespan

Area of psychology that applies the science and practice of psychology to issues within and related to the criminal justice system.

Study of patterns of thoughts and behaviors that make each individual unique.

Steps to scientific investigation!

A tentative statement and testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables

Describes the actions or operations that will be used to measure or control a variable.

What would be an example of a hypothesis

Only one research method can determine an cause effect relationship. What is it?

A research method in which the investigator manipulates a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observes whether any changes happen to a second variable.

Match stuff (ex: Prozac effectively treats depression)

What is the independent variable and dependent variable here? "Phone usage decreases attention span."

Group that receives the treatment (Ex: prozac)

Serves as basis for comparison receives nothing except sometimes a placebo

Researcher Expectations skew the results of the study

Experiment in which both the experimenter and participant are blind to what is going on.

The relationship between two or more variables.

Unanticipated outside factor that effects both variables of interest 

Two variables change in the same direction, both becoming larger and or smaller.

Two variables change in different directions. One goes up one goes down

What is positive or negative correlation

Correlation Coefficient stuff Which number is the strongest? 

Seeing relationships between two things when in reality no such relationships exist

list of questions to be answered by research participant allowing researchers to collect data from a lot of people.

Subset of individuals selected from the larger population

Overall group of individuals that the researchers are interested in.

Subset of a population in which every member is chosen randomly.

Observation of behavior in its natural setting.

Occurs when a subjects behavior is altered by the presence  of an observer.

When observation may be skewed to align with observer exceptions. 

Observation research study focused on one or a few people.

Inferring that the results for a sample apply to the larger population.

Methods of research using past records or data to answer various research question, or to search for interesting patterns or relationship.

Long standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, or act in certain ways.

The detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities. 

Who came up psychoanalytic theory

What are the THREE levels of consciousness

What is the word that describes an "Emotional release"?

Goes off the "Pleasure Principal". Consists of the most primitive  drives or urges, including impulses for hunger, thirst, and sex.

Aspect of personality that represents the self. Follows social construct while taming the urges of id & superego. Its reality principal being "realistic"

The moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what is right and wrong.

The tendency to experience negative emotions :(

The unconscious protective barriers designed to reduce ego's anxiety.

Refusing to accept real events because they are unpleasant.

Transferring inappropriate urges or behaviors onto a more acceptable or less threatening targets.

Suppressing painful memories and through. 

Attributing unacceptable desires on others

Justifying behaviors by substituting acceptable reasons for less acceptable real reasons.

Reducing axiety by adopting beliefs contrary to your own beliefs.

Reverting to coping strategies for less mature stage of development.

Redirecting unacceptable desires through socially acceptable channels. 

Stages of child development in which a child's pleasure-seeking urges are focused on specific areas of the body called erogenous zones. 

Psychosexual Stages in order

Involves a failure to move forward from one state to another's as expected.

psychologically dependent adult continually seeking the oral stimulation denied in infancy, thereby becoming a manipulative person in fulfilling their needs, rather than maturing to independence

Connect the two types of anal fixations

Carl Yungs theory focusing on the balance of opposing forces within ones personality and the significance of the collective unconscious.

Carl yungs theory: Common psychological tendencies that have been passed on from one generation to the next.

Pattern that exists in our collective unconscious across cultures and societies.

Alfred Adler's school of psychology that focuses on our drive to compensates for feeling of inferiority.

Proposed by Alfred Adler, refers to a feeling in which somebody who lacks worth or doesn't measure up to societies standards.