Ap Psych Flashcards

14860740366	Empiricism	how experience influences behavior	0
14860756253	Psychology	the study of behavior and mental processes	1
14860762857	Introspection	looking inward at one's own mental processes	2
14860770541	Structuralism	how your brain is built to work	3
14860777431	Functionalism	how the brain functions	4
14860788214	William Wundt	founder of psychology	5
14860794331	Humanist Perspective	Everyone has the potential to get better and thrive	6
14860806306	Biological Perspective	something small that makes a big impact	7
14860816950	cognative perspective	thought process influence behavior	8
14860826913	Behavioral Perspective	Why do you behave a certain way when you feel something	9
14860846749	social-cultural perspective	how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures	10
14860867160	psycodynamic perspective	the behavior you get comes from the unconscious mind	11
14860882285	evolutionary perspective	perspective that focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share	12
14860896375	clinical psychology	assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavior disorders	13
14860902966	Nature vs. Nurture	name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior	14
14860913506	basic research	increase scientific knowledge base	15
14860916363	applied research	scientific study that aims to solve practical problems	16
14860923261	biopsychosocial approach	an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis	17