click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ap Psych: Unit 1 Pt1
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Curiosity | Does it work? |
Skepticism | What do you mean/How do you know? |
Humility | Willing to be surprised |
Critical thinking | Does not think blindly, discovering basis, ext. |
Renee Descartes | Dissected animals, knowledge is inate |
John Locke | Knowledge is not inate, tabula rosa/blank slate |
Empiricism | John Locke + Francis Bacon, knowledge is from experience |
Wilhelm Wundt | Established the first psych laboratory |
Edward Bradford Titchener | Introduced structuralism, looked into the minds structure, introspection-looking inward |
William James | Functionalism, mental and behavioral process function/ adapt, wrote a textbook |
John Watson, B.F. Skinner | Behaviorism- psych is objective, do not consider mental process, Ivan Pavlov |
Sigman Frued | Freudian- Psychoanalytic/dynamic, childhood experiences and unconscious mind |
Carl Rogers/Abraham Maslow | Humanistic- human growth/potential |
Cognitive Psych | Perceive, store, remember, think, communicate, information (science of the mind) |
Cognitive Neuroscience | Perception, language, thinking, memory (science of the brain) |
Psychology | The science of behavior and mental processes |
Nature vs Nurture | Genes vs environment, affect it has, "Nurture works on what nature provides" |
Natural selection | Nature chooses certain traits that aid an organism thrive |