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AP Psych Practice 1
History & Approaches
Question | Answer |
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What is structuralism? | Studies the structure of the mind. |
What did psychology derive from? | Physiology & philosophy. |
What is functionalism? | Analyzes the purpose of behavior. |
What is object introspection? | Objectively examining & measuring one's own thoughts & mental activities. |
What is Gestalt Psychology? | Study of sensation & perception. |
What is psychoanalysis? | Theory based on the unconscious, holding memories repressed from childhood. |
What does behavioral mean? | That an action or behavior is learned or reinforced. |
What does evolutionary mean? | That an action or behavior relates to the person's genes. |
What does humanistic mean? | That people have free will to make decisions based of what they want to be or do. |
What does biological mean? | The issue(s) come from a chemical imbalance in the brain. |
What does cognitive mean? | It focuses on people's thoughts, how they perceive things. |
What does sociocultural mean? | How society affects people. |
What does biopsychosocial mean? | Direct results of biological events in the body. |
Who was Mary Calkins? | First female President of APA. |
What is Charles Darwin the founder of? | Evolution & natural selection. |
What did Dorothea Dix do? | Reformed mental institution is the U.S. |
Who was Stanley Hall? | First President of APA & Clark University. |
Who was William James? | Father of American psychology & a structuralist. |
Who was William Wundt? | Father of Modern psychology & a structuralist. |
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn? | First female to to earn a doctorate degree. |
What did Christine Ladd-Franklin do? | Developed her own color theory & experimented with vision. |