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Unit 1 AP Psych Test

TermDefinition
Nature The belief that our personalities and who we are are directly a result of our genetics and DNA.
Nurture The belief that our personalities and who we are are directly a result of how we were raised and our experiences.
Socrates & Plato From 400 BC Greece, and thought knowledge is innate and the mind is separate from the body (nature).
Aristotle From 400 BC Greece, thought knowledge develops from experience (nature).
Descartes From 1600s France. Thought mind is separate from body and knowledge is innate (nature).
Francis Bacon From 1600s Britain. Believed that science is centered around experiment, experience, & common sense.
John Locke From 1650s Britain. Believed mind at birth was a blank slate ("tabula rasa").
Empiricism The view that knowledge comes from experience and science should rely on observation & experiment.
Wilhelm Wundt From 1880s Germany. He moved psychology to a science ("atoms of the mind").
Edward Tichner From 1890s United States. Was a student of Wundt. Introduced Structuralism.
Introspection Self reporting and reflecting on an experience.
William James From 1890s United States. Wrote first psych textbook. Consciousness serves a function that is adaptive.
Charles Darwin From 1850s England. Mind and thinking is adaptive to help survival.
Functionalism Explored how mental & behavioral processed function (how they enable someone to adapt, survive, & flourish).
Mary Whiton Calkins From 1905 United States. Worked with William James while attending Harvard, but was never given PhD. First woman president of APA.
Margaret Floy Washburn First woman to get PhD. Studied under Titchner. Second woman president of APA.
Sigmund Freud From 1900s Austria. Explains how the unconscious mind affects behavior. Believed sex and rage drove all actions.
Ivan Pavlov From 1890s Russia. He taught dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, through stimulus/response exercises.
Edward Thorndike From 1890s United States. Worked with animals & reinforcement techniques.
B.F. Skinner From 1930s United States. Expanded behaviorism to include reinforcement.
John B. Watson From 1920s United States. Taught orphan to be afraid of white fluffy animals through loud noises.
Basic Research Expands knowledge of basic psychology.
Applied Research Uses psychology knowledge for problem solving.
Evolutionary How human traits are based in a need to survive and reproduce.
Neurobiological How the body & brain enable emotions, memories, & sensory experiences. How biological mechanisms affect your behavior.
Psychodynamic How behavior is motivated by instinctual drives (sex and rage). Everyone is driven by hidden desires.
Behavioral How does what we observe and experience affect our behaviors.
Cognitive How do we encode, process, store, & retrieve information. Makes inferences about the mental process behind behavior.
Humanistic Believe individuals are unique & have innate drive to reach full potential.
Sociocultural How behavior & thinking vary across situations & cultures. Study how we influence one another.
David Buss Evolutionary: studied heterosexual attraction & how it was driven by the need for healthy reproduction.
Roger Sperry Neurobiologcal: split brain researcher
Carl Jung Psychodynamic: founded analytical psychology
Alfred Adler Psychodynamic: founder of individual psychology
Karen Horney Psychodynamic
Herman Ebbinghaus Cognitive
Noam Chomsky Cognitive
Jean Piaget Cognitive: development
Harry Harlow Cognitive: Experimented on monkeys to study children's love for their mothers.
Erik Erikson Cognitive: stages of development
Abraham Moslow Humanistic: hierarchy of needs
Carl Rogers Humanistic: developed individual, client-centered psychology
Lev Vygotsky Sociocultural: social interaction plays critical role in child's learning.
David Matsumoto Sociocultural: nonverbal behavior, culture, & emotion
Philip Zimbardo Sociocultural: Stanford Prison Experiment
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