Vocabulary Psychology's History Psychology's Approaches Psychology's Subfields Stump's Stumpers
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What is Psychology
The science of behavior and mental processes.
100
What is Sigmund Freud
This psychologist developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality.
100
What is Behavioral Psychology
The approach that focuses on how we learn observable responses.
100
What is Counseling Psychology
A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being.
100
What is American Psychological Association
APA stands for this.
200
What is Nature-Nurture Issue
The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
200
What is William James
This psychologist taught the first psychology course and wrote the first psychology textbook.
200
What is Cognitive Psychology
The approach that focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
200
What is Clinical Psychology
A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
200
What is Ivan Pavlov
This psychologist pioneered the study of learning.
300
What is Structuralism
An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind.
300
What is Wilhelm Wundt
This psychologist founded the first psychology laboratory and is known as the father of psychological science.
300
What is Humanistic Psychology
The approach that focuses on how we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment.
300
What is Psychiatry
A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders and treatment.
300
What is Survey, Question, Read, Rehearse, Review
The five steps of SQ3R.
400
What is Functionalism
A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes enable us to adapt and flourish.
400
What is John B. Watson or B.F. Skinner
One of the pioneering psychologists of behaviorism.
400
What is Evolutionary Psychology
The approach that focuses on how the natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes.
400
What is Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology
The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces.
400
What is University of Leipzig, 1879
The first psychology laboratory was established at this university and in this year.
500
What is Empiricism
The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.
500
What is Carl Rogers or Abraham Maslow
One of the pioneering psychologists of humanistic psychology.
500
What is Psychodynamic Psychology
The approach that focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.
500
What is Developmental Psychology
The scientific study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the lifespan.
500
What is Eclectic Psychology
The use of a variety of approaches within the field of psychology.






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