Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 10464660440 | Empiricism | The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should therefore rely on observation and experimentation. | 0 | |
| 10464660441 | Structuralism | Early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind. | 1 | |
| 10464660442 | Functionalism | Early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish | 2 | |
| 10464660443 | Experimental Psychology | The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method. | 3 | |
| 10464660444 | Behaviorism | The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2). | 4 | |
| 10464660445 | Humanistic Psychology | A historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people. | 5 | |
| 10464660446 | Cognitive Neuroscience | The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with thinking (including perception, thinking, memory, and language.) | 6 | |
| 10464660447 | Psychology | The science of behavior and mental processes. | 7 | |
| 10464660448 | Nature-Nurture Issue | The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of the two. | 8 | |
| 10464660449 | 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. | 9 | |
| 10464660450 | Levels of Analysis | The differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon. | 10 | |
| 10464660451 | Biopsychosocial Approach | An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis. | 11 | |
| 10464660452 | Biological Psychology | The scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal, and psychological processes.) | 12 | |
| 10464660453 | Evolutionary Psychology | The study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection. | 13 | |
| 10464660454 | Psychodynamic Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders. | 14 | |
| 10464660455 | Behavioral Psychology | the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning | 15 | |
| 10464660456 | Cognitive Psychology | The scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | 16 | |
| 10464660457 | Social-Cultural Psychology | The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking. | 17 | |
| 10464660458 | Psychometrics | The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits. | 18 | |
| 10464660459 | Basic Research | Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. | 19 | |
| 10464660460 | Developmental Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. | 20 | |
| 10464660461 | Educational Psychology | The study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning. | 21 | |
| 10464660462 | Personality Psychology | The study of an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 22 | |
| 10464660463 | Social Psychology | The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. | 23 | |
| 10464660464 | Applied Research | Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. | 24 | |
| 10464660465 | Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology | The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces. | 25 | |
| 10464660466 | 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. | 26 | |
| 10464660467 | Clinical Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders. | 27 | |
| 10464660468 | Psychiatry | A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy. | 28 | |
| 10464661026 | positive psychology | the scientific study of human functioning, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive | 29 | |
| 10464662697 | community psychology | a branch of psychology that studies how people interact with their social environments and how social institutions affect individuals and groups | 30 | |
| 10464894445 | Wilhelm Wundt | established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany | 31 | |
| 10464894919 | William James | founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment | 32 | |
| 10464895691 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes from childhood affect behavior and personality formation; | 33 | |
| 10464896265 | John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner | developed behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions to a given situation, not mental processes | 34 | |
| 10464896551 | Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow | founded humanistic psychology, which focused on humans' current environments and having their needs met | 35 | |
| 10464899405 | Charles Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) | 36 | |
| 10464909133 | Edward Bradford Titchener | used introspection to search for the mind's structural elements | 37 | |
| 10467532946 | human factors psychology | an I/O psychology subfield that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use | 38 |
