Chapter 1: Introducing Psychology Crossword

A field of psychology that focuses on people's positive experiences and characteristics, such as happiness, optimism and resilience.
Psychologists who analyse the physiological factors influencing behaviour and mental processes.
Psychologists who study the mental processes underlying judgement, decision making and problem solving, etc.
Psychologists who seek to understand, describe and explore how behaviour and mental processes change over a lifetime.
A field of psychology that study individuality and the characteristics that make individuals similar to or different from one another.
Psychologists who seek to assess, understand and change abnormal behaviour.
These psychologists work with groups and individuals to prevent disorders by striving for change in social systems.
These psychologists study the effects of behaviour and mental processes on physical well-being.
Psychologists who study methods by which instructors teach and students learn.
Diagnosing students' academic problems is the role of a ________ psychologist.
Psychologists who study how people influence one another's behaviour and mental processes, individually and in groups
These psychologists study ways to improve efficiency, productivity and satisfaction among workers.
A psychologist who explores the relationship between athletic performance and psychological variables is known as a ________ psychologist.
Someone who assists in jury selection or evaluates defendents' mental competence to stand trial.
The study of the effects of the physical environment on behaviour and mental processes.
The scientific study of all levels of the nervous system.
In 1879 this person established the first formal psychology research laboratory at the University of Leipzig.
The awareness of external stimuli and our own mental activity.
An early advocate of Structuralism.
The father of Psychoanalysis.
Max Wertheimer, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler was the founder of ________ psychology.
An early advocate of Functionalism.
John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner researched this kind of psychology.
An approach to psychology that emphasises the inherited, adapted aspects of behaviour and mental processes.
An approach developed by Freud that emphasises interplay of unconscious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings and behaviour.
An approach to behaviour that emphasises how the brain takes in information, creates perceptions and forms and retrieves memories.
Emphasises individual potential for growth and the role of unique perceptions in guiding behaviour and mental processes.
Factors such as identity, gender, ethnicity, social class and culture.
The first research laboratory in psychology was established to study ________ processes.