AP Psychology - History and Approaches Flashcards
Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 4806501152 | Empiricism | The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should therefore rely on observation and experimentation. |  | 0 |
| 4806501153 | Structuralism | Developed by Edward Bradford Titchener, it focused on self-reflection and introspection. Highly unreliable. |  | 1 |
| 4806501154 | Functionalism | A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish. |  | 2 |
| 4806501155 | Experimental Psychology | The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method. |  | 3 |
| 4806501156 | 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 |
| 4806501157 | Humanistic Psychology | The historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth. |  | 5 |
| 4806501158 | Cognitive Neuroscience | The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with thinking including perception, thinking, memory, and language. |  | 6 |
| 4806501159 | Psychology | The science of behavior and mental processes. |  | 7 |
| 4806501160 | 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 |
| 4806501161 | 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 |
| 4806501164 | Biological Psychology | A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior. |  | 10 |
| 4806501165 | Evolutionary Psychology | The study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection. |  | 11 |
| 4806501166 | 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. |  | 12 |
| 4806501167 | Behavioral Psychology | Method of changing abnormal behavior thru systematic program based on the learning principles of CLASSICAL conditioning, OPERANT Conditioning, or OBSERVATIONAL Learning. |  | 13 |
| 4806501168 | Cognitive Psychology | The scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |  | 14 |
| 4806501169 | Social-Cultural Psychology | The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking. |  | 15 |
| 4806501172 | Developmental Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. |  | 16 |
| 4806501175 | Social Psychology | The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. |  | 17 |
| 4806501178 | 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. |  | 18 |
| 4806501179 | Clinical Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders. |  | 19 |
| 4806501180 | 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. |  | 20 |