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AP Psychology Vocab
Vocabulary List One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Structuralism | An early school of psychology that used introspect to explore the structural elements of the human mind |
| Functionalism | school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable us to adopt, survive and flourish |
| Psychology | science of behavior and mental process |
| Nature-Nurture Issue | longstanding controverst over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits: behaviors |
| Natural Selection | Principle that among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to suceeding generations |