Module 1 of Psychology - Seventh Edition in Modules by David Myers for AP Psychology.
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| 13878145031 | Empiricism | The view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and science flourishes through observation and experiment. | 0 | |
| 13878145032 | Structuralism | An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. | 1 | |
| 13878145033 | Functionalism | A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. | 2 | |
| 13878145034 | Psychology | The science of behavior and mental processes. | 3 | |
| 13878145035 | Nature-nurture issue | The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. | 4 | |
| 13878145036 | Natural selection | The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations. | 5 | |
| 13878145037 | Basic research | Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. | 6 | |
| 13878145038 | Applied research | Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. | 7 | |
| 13878145039 | Clinical psychology | A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders. | 8 | |
| 13878145040 | Psychiatry | A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy. | 9 | |
| 13878145041 | Neuroscience perspective | How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. | 10 | |
| 13878145042 | Evolutionary perspective | How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes. | 11 | |
| 13878145043 | Behavior genetics perspective | How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences. | 12 | |
| 13878145044 | Psychodynamic perspective | How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts. | 13 | |
| 13878145045 | Behavioral perspective | How we learn observable responses. | 14 | |
| 13878145046 | Cognitive perspective | How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information. | 15 | |
| 13878145047 | Social-cultural perspective | How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures. | 16 | |
| 13878145048 | Hebrews, Aristotle, Augustine | They believed the mind and body are connected. | 17 | |
| 13878145049 | Socrates, Plato, Descartes | They believed the mind and body are distinct. | 18 | |
| 13878145050 | Socrates, Plato | They believed some ideas are inborn. | 19 | |
| 13878145051 | Aristotle, Locke | They believed the mind is a blank slate, altered by experience. | 20 | |
| 13878145052 | William Wundt | His 1879 experiment that aimed to measure the fasted and simplest mental processes was psychology's first experiment. | 21 | |
| 13878145053 | William James | founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment | 22 | |
| 13878145054 | Mary Calkins | Distinguished memory researcher and APA's first female president; student of William James | 23 | |
| 13878145055 | Margaret Washburn | First woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology an animal behaviorist developed a motor theory of speech | 24 | |
| 13878145056 | G. Stanley Hall | founder of american psych association (APA) working with William James | 25 | |
| 13878145057 | Max Wetheimer | A gestalt psychologist | 26 | |
| 13878145058 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind. Father of psychoanalysis. | 27 | |
| 13878145059 | John B. Watson | founder of behaviorism | 28 | |
| 13878145060 | Ivan Pavlov | Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditionin | 29 | |
| 13878145061 | B.F. Skinner | developed operant conditioning and studied behavioral perspective | 30 | |
| 13878145062 | Maslow | hierarchy of needs | 31 | |
| 13878145063 | Carls Rogers | Humanist | 32 | |
| 13878145064 | Charles Darwin | Evolutionary | 33 | |
| 13878145065 | Jean Piaget | child development 4 stages - sensory, motor, preamp, formal operational Cognitive Development |  | 34 |
