Terminologies of Psychology

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

• Psychoanalyst

• Psychiatrist

A bunch of medicine that deals with metal, emotional, or behavioral disorders.

• Psychology

• Psychiatry

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• Psychology

• Psychiatry

French thinker who believed in the concept of innate ideas, the mind's separation of the body, and believed that his existence was justified by his thoughts.

• Rene Descarte

• Carl Jung

Contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct

• Regression

• Introspection

An approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior.

• Behaviourism

• Cognition

How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.

• Introspection

• Cognitive

An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.

• Theory

• Hypothesis

Founded the basic tenets of psychoanalysis

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

An innocuous or inert medication

• Placebo

• Heuristic