SELF MADE QUESTIONS

• Types of Personality

  • Sanguine
  • Melancholic
  • Phlegmatic
  • Choleric
• Sanguine - optimistic, cheerful, and confident.
• Melancholic - easily depressed, moody and pessimistic
• Phlegmatic - chill, calm, careful and slow
• Choleric - nervous type, easily provoked, aggressive
• Psychology - study of human behavior. Comes from to Greek word “psyche” which means soul and "logos" which means study.
• Rene Descartes - Father of Modern Philosophy. Note that Philosophy is the mother of Psychology
• Animism - beliefs in supernatural things
• Francis Bacon - Scientific method
• Wilhem Wundt - Father of Modern Psychology
• Leipzig Germany - 1st Psychological Lab
• Ivan Pavlov - Study of Learning
• Jean Piaget - Observation of Children
• General Psychology - this branch of psychology studies underlying principles of human behavior and mental processes.
• Experimental Psychology - this branch of psychology studies behavioral process through scientific methods.
• Developmental Psychology - this branch of psychology studies the development of the mind and behavior from birth to adulthood
• Comparative Psychology - this branch of psychology studies behavioral differences of various organisms.
• Educational Psychology - this branch of psychology studies problems in the field of education.
• Social Psychology - this branch of psychology studies how people interact with one another and how they influence their behavior.
• Industrial Organizational Psychology - this branch of psychology studies the relationship between people and their work.
• Environmental Psychology - this branch of psychology studies how the environment affects our behavior.
• Clinical Psychology - this branch of psychology studies clinical diagnosis and treatment
• Psychologist - therapy

  Psychiatrist - drug prescription
• Cognitive Psychology - this branch of psychology studies how the mind works and how it processes information
• Forensic Psychology - this branch of psychology studies the collection, examination of evidences for juridical purposes
• William James - 1st American Psychologist
• Sir Francis Galton - Fathered Mental Test
• Sigmund Freud - interpretations of dreams, theory of personality
• Personality - collection of traits that make up a person’s unique character.
• Personal development - may be defined as a process in which persons reflect upon themselves, understand who they are, accept what they discover about themselves, and learn new set of values, attitudes, behavior, and thinking skills to reach their fullest potential as a human beings
• Physical Development Which covers the growth of the body and the brain, motor and sensory skills, and even physical health;
• Cognitive Development Which covers our capacity to learn, to speak, to understand, to reason, and to create;
• Psychosocial Development

  Which includes our social interactions with other people, our emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality, beliefs and values.
• Heredity - or the inborn traits passed on by the generations of offspring's from both sides of the biological parent's families;
• Environment - is the world outside of ourselves and the experiences that result from our contact and interaction with this external world
• Maturation - is the natural progression of the brain and the body that affects the cognitive (thinking and intelligence), psychological (emotions, attitude, and self-identity), and social (relationships) dimension of a person.
• Psychology - is the study of human thinking and behavior, serves as a foundation for personal development.
• Self-awareness - is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.
• Self-knowledge - is a term used in psychology to describe the information that an individual draws upon when finding an answer to the question "What am I like?"
• Self-knowledge - is a component of the self, or more accurately, the self-concept.