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AP Psychology Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Introspection | asking yourself questions |
| structuralism | early approach that uses introspection to explore the human mind |
| functionalism | early approach that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function |
| psychoanalytic theory | the idea that all mental life exists int he realm of the consciousness and unconscious. |
| behaviorism | anything an organism DOES |
| humanist perspective | looking at someone as a whole rather than looking at the problem area of the person |
| psychoanalytic perspective | an approach that focuses on the importance of the unconscious mind and not so much the conscious |
| biopsychology perspective | focuses on the physical roots of behavior |
| evolutionary perspective | how natural selection of traits promotes the survival of genes and behaviors |
| cognitive perspective | focuses on how internal thoughts and feelings influence our behavior |
| socialcultural perspective | considers the fact that social groups that people interact with affect their development and behavior. |
| Wilhelm Wundt | first person to use a psych experiment |
| William James | he defined psych as the conscience to the mental life. he also wrote the first psych textbook. |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | created the idea of self-psychology |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | first woman to earn a doctoral degree in American psych (1894). She proposed the idea that all thought can be traced back to bodily movement. |
| G. Stanley Hall | the originator of the idea that all humans display and repeat behaviors of ancestors during development. |
| Max Wertheimer | founder of gestalt psychology. It focused on looking at things as a whole, suggesting that the whole was more than the sum of its parts. |
| sigmund freud | he suggested that human behavior is influeced by unconcious memories, thoughts, and urges |
| ivan pavlov | best known in pysch for his discovery of classical conditioning |
| B.F. Skinner | suggested that learning and behavior change are the result of reinforcement and punishment |
| Abraham Maslow | developed a hierarchy of needs to explain human motivations |
| carl rogers | a person's behavior is a factor motivated by self actualization to work and achieve the highest level of achievement. |
| Charles Darwin | made an entire subdivision of psych called evolutionary psychology he believed that personality and behavior change due to natural selection. |
| jean piaget | a psychologist who focused on child development |
| hindsight | the tendency to see events as being more predictable than they were |
| applied research | a scientific study within the field that focuses on solving problems, curing illnesses, and innovating new tech |
| basic research | refers to the theory-driven, hypothesis-testing science. |
| hypothesis | a testable statement of what the researchers predict will be the outcome of the study |
| independent variable | the part of the experiment that give different outcomes |
| dependent variable | the variable that is being measured or tested in an experiment |
| theory | fact-based ideas that describe a phenomonon |
| operational definition | defining the variable as it exists in the present study |
| validity | how well a test actually measures what it was created to measure |
| reliability | the trustworthiness or consistency of a measure |
| sampling | the process of selecting a small amount of units for testing |
| sample | the entire group a researcher is interested in |
| population | a subfield of psych that studies the relationships between human populations and the behaviors of individuals |
| representative sample | a group that closely matches the characteristics of its population as a whole |
| random sampling | a sampling technique where every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected |
| stratified sampling | researchers divide subjects into groups based on characteristic they all share |
| lab experiment | lab experiments are conducted under controlled condition |
| field experiment | field experiments use some controlled elements but takes place in real world settings. |
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