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AP psych vocab

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Clinical psychology evaluate and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
Developmental psychology study psychological development throughout the lifespan.
Educational psychologists focus on how effective teaching and leaning take place.
Engineering psychologists do research on how people function best with machines
Forensic psychologists apply psychological principles to legal issues.
Health psychologists concentrate on biological, psychological, and social factors involved in health and illness.
Industrial/Organizational psychologists aim to improve productivity and the quality of work life.
Neuropsychologists explore the relationships between brain/nervous systems and behavior.
Psychometricians focus on methods for acquiring and analyzing psychological data.
Rehab psychologists help clients with mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and disabilities resulting from stroke or accidents adapt to their situations.
School psychologists Assess and counsel students
Social psychologists focus on how a person's mental life and behavior are shaped by interaction with other people.
Monism seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing.
Dualism seeing mine and body as two different things that interact.
Nature-nurture controversy Plato and Decarttes believed behavior is inborn. Aristotle, Watson, Skinner believed behavior results from experience.
School of structuralism psych perspective that emphasized units of consciousness and identification of elements of thought using introspection. Wilhelm Wundt.
School of Functionalism psych perspective concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to adapt to its environment. William James.
Behavioral Approach psych perspective concerned with behavioral reactions to stimuli, learning as a result of experience. Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner.
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Approach psych perspective concerned with how unconscious instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior. Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney and Kohut.
Humanistic Approach psych perspective concerned with individual potential for growth and the role of unique perceptions in growth toward one's potential. Carl Rogers, Maslow.
Biological Approach psych perspective concerned with physiological and biochemical factors that determine behavior and mental processes.
Cognitive Approach psych perspective concerned with how we receive, store and process info. Thinking and reasoning and use of language.
Evolutionary Approach psych perspective concerned with how natural selection favored behaviors contributed to survival and spread of our ancestors' genes.
Sociocultural Approach psych perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior.
Eclectic use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches.
Placebo No active ingredient
Reliability consistency and repeatability of results.
Validity extent to which an instrument measures or predicts what it is supposed to predict.
Standard deviation measures the average difference between each score and the mean of the data set.
Normal distribution bell curve
Lesions precise destruction of brain tissue, enables more systematic study of loss of function.
CAT or CT scan created a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain to show structure and/or extent of a lesion.
MRI creates more detailed computerized images using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves that cause emission of signals that depends upon the density of tissue.
EEG amplified tracing of brain activity produced when electrodes positioned over the scalp transmit signals about the brain's electrical activity to an electroencephalograph machine.
PET shows brain activity when radioactively charged glucose rushes to activate neurons and emits positrons.
fMRI shows brain activity at higher resolution than PET when changes in oxygen concentration near active neurons alter magnetic qualities.
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