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AP Psych Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tabula rasa | John Locke’s idea that the mind is a blank slate on which experience writes |
| empiricism | the idea that knowledge originates in experience and thus, science should rely on experimentation and observation |
| structuralism | aims to understand the structural elements of the mind |
| introspection | looking within oneself |
| functionalism | emphasized how consciousness and behavioral processes function, or how they enable organisms to adapt, survive, and flourish |
| experimental psychology | refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes |
| behaviorism | the psychological perspective that focuses on the scientific study of observable behaviors |
| humanistic psychology | the psychological perspective that focuses on the growth potential of healthy people |
| psychology | the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
| psychoanalytic perspective | the theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts |
| nature nurture issue | the longstanding debate over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors |
| levels of analysis | the differing complimentary views for analyzing any given phenomenon |
| biopsychosocial approach | how we consider the biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors that affect behavior |
| behavioral psychology | focuses on how we learn through rewards, punishments, and observation |
| biological psychology | focuses on the physical structures and substances underlying a particular behavior, thought, or emotion |
| cognitive psychology | focuses on how people think and process information |
| evolutionary psychology | focuses on how behavior can be explained by how the behavior may have helped our ancestors survive long enough to reproduce successfully |
| psychodynamic psychology | focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
| social-cultural psychology | focuses on how thinking or behavior changes in different context or situations |
| cognitive neuroscience | the study of how the brain enables the mind |
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