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Flashcards by nikola0854, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by nikola0854
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| Question | Answer |
| Biological perspective | Biological (physiological) influences on behaviour and mental processes |
| Behavioural Perspective | How behaviour is acquired or modified by environmental consequences such as rewards and punishments |
| Cognitive Perspective | How we acquire, process, remember and use information about ourselves and the world around us |
| Socio-cultural Perspective | Roles of social and cultural influences on human behaviour and mental processes |
| Behaviour | Any observable action made by a living person (or animal) |
| Mental processes | Thoughts and feelings that are internal, personal, and cannot be directly observed |
| Overt | Any response that is clearly observable |
| Covert | Any response that is internal and hidden from view, therefore not directly observable |
| Pseudoscience | False or fake science |
| Psychiatrists education | 13 years |
| Psychologists education | 6 years |
| Research psychologist | Conduct and report the results of an experiment |
| Health Psychologist | The promotion and maintenance of health related behaviours, the prevention and treatment f illness and improvement of health care systems |
| Organisational Psychologist | Concerned with work environments and the promotion of health in that environment |
| Forensic Psychologist | Apply psychological knowledge in the legal and criminal justice system |
| Neuropsychologist | Assessment and diagnoses of brain impairment and in the rehabilitation and management of its effects |
| Sports Psychologist | Provide psychological assistance to people involved in sport and exercise at all levels |
| Clinical Psychologist | Concerned with diagnoses, treatment and prevention of mental health problems |
| Educational Psychologist | Early childhood intervention, problems of learning and adjustment in schools, lifespan transitions and ageing |
| Structuralism Founder | Wilhelm Wundt |
| Functionalism Founder | William James |
| Psychoanalysis Founder | Sigmund Freud |
| Behaviourism Founder | John B Watson |
| Humanism Founder | Carl Rogers |
| Structuralism | Structure of the conscious; the basic parts of the mind, how they are organised and relate |
| Functionalism | The functions or purpose that mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment |
| Psychoanalysis | Roles of the unconscious conflict and motivations in understanding and explaining mental processes and behaviour |
| Behaviourism | Understanding and explaining how behaviour is learned and moulded by experience |
| Humanism (humanistic psychology) | Undetsnading and explaining behaviour and mental processes that focuses on the uniqueness of each individual and the positive qualities and the potential of all human beings to fulfil their lives. |
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