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AP Psych-History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of behavior and the mind. | Psychology |
| The observable actions of a person or an animal. | Behavior |
| The sensations, memories, motives, emotions, thoughts, and other subjective phenomena particular to an individual or animal that are not readily observed. | Mind |
| Purposes of studying psychology: | Describe, Predict, and Explain |
| The first people to speculate on the nature of the mind. | Ancient Greeks |
| A concept formed by the early Greeks that divides the world and all things in it into two parts: body and spirit. | Dualism |
| He believed that the physical world is not under divine influence but rather follows a set of observable laws or rules. | Rene Descartes |
| What, according to Descartes, is not observable and is not subject to natural laws? | The Mind |
| In which part of the brain, located at the top of the brain stem, did Descartes believe the interaction between body and mind occurs? | Pineal Gland |
| An immediate, inconscious reaction to an environmental event. | Reflex |
| He extended Descartes' application of natural laws to all things, believing that even the mind is under the control of such laws. | John Locke |
| The school of thought established by Locke, based on the acquisition of truth through observations and experiences. | Empiricism |
| Locke's term for the mind of a child, which is Latin for "blank slate." | Tabula Rasa |
| He believed that the idea of a soul, spirit, or mind was meaningless. | Thomas Hobbes |
| The philosophy of Hobbes, which is the belief that the only things that exist are matter and energy. | Materialism |
| This theory set the stage for psychology by establishing behavior as important and observable, and therefore, subject to scientific scrutiny. | Evolutionary Theory |
| A theory concerned with the structure of the mind and its parts in order to understand the greater structure of the mind. | Structuralism |
| Often considered to be the founder of psychology, after initiating the first psychology laboratory. | Wilhelm Wundt |
| A student of Wundt and one of the first to bring psychology to the United States. A pioneer of structuralism. | Edward Titchener |
| An American psychologist who was heavily influenced by Darwin and believed that the important thing to understand is how the mind fulfills its purpose. Pioneer of functionalism. | William James |
| The field and approach of psychology that seeks to understand the interactions between anatomy and physiology and behavior. | Biological Psychology |
| The field and approach of psychology that emphasizes that particular behaviors are attributed to particular, genetically-based psychological characteristics. | Behavioral Genetics |
| The field and approach of psychology that studies observable behavior. | Behaviorism |
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