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Module 1 AP Psych
Module 1 AP Psych Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Curiosity | makes people question the predictions it comes up with |
| Skepticism | creates a healthy attitude that questions its surroundings but not to a certain extent |
| Humility | plays a part in the scientific attitude by allowing room for surprises and new ideas to arise |
| Critical thinking | go deeper into questions and the answers |
| Socrates | He contributed that the mind is separable from the body and that our knowledge is born with us |
| Plato | was Socrates' student and also believed that knowledge was innate |
| Aristotle | He contributed by using data and observations to find out that knowledge is not preexisting but formed by our experiences |
| Rene Decartes | He influenced psychological development by discovering that nerve paths are important and enable reflexes |
| Francis Bacon | He contributed by foreseeing our minds drive to see patterns even in random events |
| John Locke | He came up with the idea of “Tabula rasa” which stands for blank slate and gets written on through our experiences |
| Empiricism | This is the idea that what we know comes from the things we experience |
| Wihelm Wundt | He is significant because he created an experiment that was seeking to measure the “atoms of the mind”. Also, he later created the first psychological laboratory |
| G. Stanley Hall | He was significant because he was Wundt’s American student who went on to create the first U.S. psychology laboratory |
| Edward Tichener | He introduced structuralism, aiming to classify and understand the elements of our mind s structure |
| Structuralism | This used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind |
| Introspection | This concept was for people to look inward and learn more about their own psychological processes |
| Functionalism | This impacted psychology by exploring how mental and behavioral process's function |
| William James | James impacted us in many ways; one being considering the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings. Also, he created the first psychology textbook |
| Charles Darwin | influenced James on many different instances |
| Principles of Psychology | This is the first psychological textbook, it impacted psychology by introducing it to the educated public |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | She was a distinguished memory researcher and was also the first female president of the American psychological Association |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | She was the first (official) female psychology Ph.D, also she wrote the book “The Animal Mind” and became the second female American psychological Association president |
| Behaviorism | This is the point of view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
| John B. Watson | He dismissed introspection and created behaviorism |
| B. F. Skinner | He assisted Watson in redefining psychology as “the scientific study of observable behavior” |
| Sigmund Freud | He created psychoanalysis psychology which was an opposing force psychology into the 1960s |
| Psychoanalytic psychology | This emphasized the ways our unconscious mind and childhood experiences affect our behavior. |
| Humanism | This focused on our potential for personal growth |
| Carl Rogers | Found that behaviorism and Freudian psychology were too limiting |
| Abraham Maslow | Worked with Rogers on humanistic psychology to focus on the potential for personal growth |
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