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Grant Clay Period 3 8/26/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology Red ? Definition of Key Terms Green ? Important People & Contributions Blue ? Important Points How Psychology Developed Psychology ? The Scientific Study of Behavior and Mental Processes. Mental Processes = Physiological and Cognitive Processes. Psychology comes from two Greek words. ?Psyche? = Soul, and ?Logos? = the Study of a Subject Psychology became a Scientific Discipline In 1870?s The Contributions of Wundt and Hall Philosophy + Physiology = Psychology Wilhelm Wundt German Professor. Campaigned to make Psychology an independent Scientific Discipline. Established first Psychology Laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig.

Grant Clay Period 3 9/27/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 6: Learning Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Learning ? Any relatively durable Change in Behavior or Knowledge that is due to Experience. Conditioning ? Learning Associations between events that occur in an Organisms Environment. Classical Conditioning Phobias ? Irrational Fears of specific Objects or Situations. Classical Conditioning ? Type of Learning in which a Stimulus acquires the Capacity to Evoke a Response that was originally evoked by another Stimulus. Ivan Pavlov Pavlovian Conditioning Pavlov?s Dogs ? Prior to Dogs being Fed Meat, a Clicking Noise Occurred. Dogs started Salivating After awhile when the Click Occurred, prior to the Meat being given.

Grant Clay Period 3 11/2/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 11: Human Development across Lifespan Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Development ? Sequence of Age-Related Changes that occur as a Person Progresses from Conception until Death. Prenatal Development Zygote ? 1 Celled Organism formed by Union of Sperm and an Egg. Prenatal Period ? Period from Conception to Birth, usually 9 Months of Pregnancy. Prenatal Development Germinal Stage ? First Phase of Prenatal Development, encompassing the first 2 Weeks after Conception. Placenta ? Structure that allows Oxygen & Nutrients to pass into Fetus from the Mother?s Bloodstream and Bodily Waste to Pass Out the Mother.