Psychology Mid Term Test

Psychologist who works in mental health or social welfare for government/private organization.

A psychologist who believes each person has freedom in directing their future and growth.

What is the most basic need in the Hierarchy of needs?

What is "schema"

Sought to discover how knowledge grows Challenged the view that environment determines behavior

Maturation is...

Who developed the stages of psycho sexual development?

How long does the anal stage last (focus on pleasure through functions of elimination)

What is developmental psychology?

What is the method of self-observation when participants report on their thoughts and feelings.

What is telegraphic speech?

A scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals.

A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned.

A psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior.

What is the highest need in the Hierarchy of needs?

the principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed

What occurs in the Latency Stage of Freud's stages of development?

A psychologist who studied the function (rather than structure) of consiousness

Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding

What is an experimental psychologist?

What does it mean to be egocentric?

Having to do with an organism's physical processes

An assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research

A psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences.

What is the primary purpose of an educational psychologist?

According to Erikson, how does a child move on to a new psycho social stage of development?

An industrial/organization psychologist uses psychological concepts to do what?

What is pleasure seeking focused on in the oral stage of Freud's stages of development?

discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals

The process of fitting objects and experiences into one's schemas.

The intellectual ability of a child to picture something in his/her mind

What is the rooting relfex?

What is a clinical psychologist?

Inherited tendencies displayed by newborn animals encountering new stimuli in their environment

The scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research

A psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence behavior

What is the branch of medicine which deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders?

A child's realization that an object exists even when he/she can't see or touch it.

What does a developmental psychologist study?

What is the grasping reflex?

What is stage #1 in Erikson's stages of psycho social development?

What are the order of the needs in Maslow's Heirarchy of needs?

Which type of psychologist helps people with problems associated with living and daily life?

Who came up with the "Hierarchy of needs"?

A general approach to gathering information and answering questions to minimize errors

A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study

A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify behavior based on environment.

The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake

A psychologist who focuses on how we process, store, and use information.

The adjustment of one's schemas to include newly observed events and experiences