Park Hill High School AP Psychology
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| 9227941614 | psychology | the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 002) | 0 | |
| 9227941616 | structuralism | an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 004) | 1 | |
| 9227941617 | functionalism | a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function—how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 005) | 2 | |
| 9227941618 | humanistic psychology | historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 007) | 3 | |
| 9227941620 | nature-nurture issue | the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 009) | 4 | |
| 9227941621 | biopsychosocial approach | an integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 010) | 5 | |
| 9227941626 | counseling psychology | a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 013) | 6 | |
| 9227941627 | psychiatry | a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 013) | 7 | |
| 12365021101 | Theory | a general explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events | 8 | |
| 12365050464 | psycodynamic perspective | a modern version of psychoanalysis that is more focused on the development of a sense of self and the discoveries of motivation behind a person's behavior rather than sexual motivations. | 9 | |
| 12365108633 | behaviorist perspective | the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only | 10 | |
| 12365131499 | cognitive perspective | modern perspective that focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning | 11 | |
| 12365148715 | evolutionary perspective | perspective that focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share | 12 | |
| 12365154290 | positive perspective | perspective in psychology that shifts focus away from the negative and instead focuses on well-being | 13 | |
| 12365160409 | Scientific Method | A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions. | 14 | |
| 12365177040 | case study | study of one individual in great detail | 15 | |
| 12365187601 | representative sample | randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of subjects | 16 | |
| 12365192566 | Correlation | A measure of the relationship between two variables | 17 | |
| 12365197805 | experiment | A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process | 18 | |
| 12365210957 | independent variable | variable that is manipulated by the experimenter | 19 | |
| 12365218227 | dependent variable | The measurable effect, outcome, or response in which the research is interested. | 20 | |
| 12365239816 | placebo effect | the phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence their behavior | 21 | |
| 12365259141 | single-blind study | study in which the subjects do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group | 22 | |
| 12365267058 | double-blind study | An experiment in which neither the participant nor the researcher knows whether the participant has received the treatment or the placebo | 23 | |
| 12365272893 | Institutional Review Board (IRB) | A committee at each institution where research is conducted to review every experiment for ethics and methodology. | 24 | |
| 12365285123 | Animal Research | Clear purpose Treated in a humane way Acquire animals legally Least amount of suffering possible. | 25 | |
| 12365316161 | Psychology's Goals | description, explanation, prediction, control | 26 | |
| 12365328559 | Wilhelm Wundt | father of psychology | 27 | |
| 12365332913 | Titchener | founder of structuralism | 28 | |
| 12365338833 | William James | Sigmund founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment | 29 | |
| 12365343541 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind. Father of psychoanalysis. | 30 | |
| 12365370498 | Pavlov | founder of classical conditioning while trying to study digestive system | 31 | |
| 12365375932 | Watson | Behaviorism; "Little Albert Study"; aversion therapy | 32 | |
| 12365387092 | Martin Seligman | researcher known for work on learned helplessness and learned optimism as well as positive psychology | 33 | |
| 12365409409 | psychiatric social worker | a social worker with some training in therapy methods who focuses on the environmental conditions that can have an impact on mental disorders, such as poverty, overcrowding, stress, and drug abuse | 34 |
