General Psychology - Midterm: JCJC,
Stephanie Green
5 types of psychologists: - ✔️✔️name any: clinical, counseling, school, educational,
developmental, personality, social, experimental
5 types of theories: - ✔️✔️Behavioral, psychoanalytical, humanistic, cognitive, and
biological
self-fulfilling prophecy - ✔️✔️prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to
become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between
belief and behavior.
pseudoscience - ✔️✔️lacks the safeguards against confirmation bias and belief
perseverance that characterize science
psychoanalytical theory - ✔️✔️Freud's; behavior influenced by childhood thoughts,
repressed desires
Behavioral theory - ✔️✔️Watson & Skinner; behavior by reward
Humanistic theory - ✔️✔️Carl Rogers; free will
Cognitive theory - ✔️✔️mental process determines behavior
biological theory - ✔️✔️dna influences our personality and behavior
Placebo effect - ✔️✔️the phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a
study can influence their behavior
case study - ✔️✔️descriptive research approach to obtain an in-depth analysis of a
person, group, or phenomenon
double-blind - ✔️✔️when neither researchers nor participants are aware of who's in the
experimental or control group
Introspection - ✔️✔️method by which trained observers carefully reflect and report on
their mental experiences
placebo - ✔️✔️improvement resulting from the mere expectation of improvement
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