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Unit one AP Psych
Psychology's History and Approaches
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Carl Rogers | 1920's, Found behaviors to be too mechanistic |
| Abraham Maslow | 1960's, found behaviorism's focus and learned behaviors |
| William James | 1993, thought to consider the evolved functions of thoughts and feelings |
| Psychology | Study of behavior and mental processes |
| Applied Research Career Options | Industrial-Orgizational, human factors, counseling, clinical, psychiatrists, psychometrics |
| Nature | Genetics, born with them, can't change |
| Combine Perspective | Biological, psychological, and social-cultural. |
| Nurture | Learn through experiences |
| Influence | Behaviors or mental process |
| Seven Contemporary Perspectives | Evolutionary, biological, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic, social-cultural |
| Edward Bradford | 1892, Wundt's student introduced structuralism |
| Human factors | How people and machines interact in an environment |
| Industrial-Orginizational | Applications of psych. concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in work places |
| Applied Research | Aims to solve practical problems |
| Educational | Affects teaching and learning |
| Developmental Psychology | Physical, cognitive, and social change |
| Basic Research | Science aims to increase scientific knowledge |
| Psychometrics | Measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits |
| Social Perspectives | Situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking |
| Cognitive Psychology | All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
| Biopsychosocial Approach | Levels of analysis and offers a more complete pictures of any given behavior or mental process. |
| Natural Selection | Nature selects the traits that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce in an environment |
| Behaviorism | Psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. |
| Functionalism | Focuses on how our mental and behavioral processes work |
| Structuralism | An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind |
| Humanistic Perspective | How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self fulfillment |
| Cognitive Perspective | How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information |
| Behavioral Perspective | How we learn observable responses |
| Psychodynamic Perspective | Behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
| Evolutionary Perspective | Natural selection of traits promote survival of genes |
| Biological Perspective | The body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences; genes combine with environment to influence individual differences. |
| Social- Cultural | How behavior and thinking vary across different cultures |
| Psychometrics | The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits. |
| Clinical Psychologists | Assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavior disorders. Provides counseling and therapy. |
| Psychiatrists | Provide psychotherapy, medical doctors licensed to prescribe drugs and otherwise treat physical causes of psychological disorders. |
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