AP Psych Flashcards

7190509969	Psychology	The scientific study of behavior and mental processes	0
7190509970	Empirical Approach	A study conducted via careful observations and scientifically based research	1
7190509971	Pseudo psychology	Erroneous assertions or practices set forth as being scientific psychology	2
7190509972	Confirmation Bias	The tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs or expectations, while ignoring evidence that does not	3
7190509973	Experimental Psychologists	Psychologist who do research on basic psychological processes	4
7190509974	Teachers of Psychology	Psychologist whose primary job is teaching typically in high schools, colleges, and universities	5
7190509975	Applied Psychologists	Psychologists who use the knowledge developed by experimental psychologists to solve human problems	6
7190509976	Psychiatry	A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders	7
7190509977	Structuralism	A historical school of psychology devoted to uncovering the basic structures that make up mind and thought	8
7190509978	Introspection	The process of reporting on one's own conscious mental experiences	9
7190509979	Functionalism	A historical school of psychology that believed mental processes could best be understood in terms of their adaptive purpose and function	10
7190509980	Gestalt Psychology	A historical school of psychology that sought to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning	11
7190509981	Behaviorism	A historical school that sought to make psychology an objective science focused only on behavior	12
7190509982	Psychoanalysis	An approach to psychology based on Sigmund Freud's assertions, which emphasize unconscious processes	13
7190509983	Biological View	The psychological perspective that searches for the cause of behavior in the functioning genes, the brain and nervous system and the endocrine system	14
7190509984	Neuroscience	The field devoted to understanding how the brain creates thought, feelings, motives, consciousness, memories, and other mental processes	15
7190509985	Evolutionary Psychology	A relatively new specialty in psychology that sees behavior and metal processes in terms of their genetic adaptions for survival and reproduction	16
7190509986	Developmental View	The psychological emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan	17
7190509987	Cognitive View	The psychological perspective emphasizing mental processes	18
7190509988	Cognitions	Mental processes such as thinking, memory, sensation, and perception	19
7190509989	Cognitive neuroscience	An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing	20
7190509990	Clinical View	The psychological perspective emphasizing mental health and mental illness	21
7190509991	Psychodynamic psychology	A clinical viewpoint emphasizing the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs, desires, memories, and conflicts	22
7190509992	Humanistic psychology	A clinical viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential, and free will	23
7190509993	Behavioral view	A psychological perspective that finds the source of our actions in environmental stimuli, rather than in mental processes	24
7190509994	Sociocultural view	A psychological perspective emphasizing the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective	25
7190509995	Culture	A complex blend of language, beliefs, customs, values, and traditions developed by a group of people and shared with others in the same environment	26
7190509996	Trait View	A psychological perspective that views behavior and personality as the products of enduring psychological characteristics	27