Review for AP Exam Unit 1 Scientific Foundations of Psychology
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- Q1the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentationempiricism30s
- Q2an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mindstructuralism30s
- Q3a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive and flourishfunctionalism30s
- Q4the study of behavior and thinking using the (scientific) experimental methodexperimental psychology30s
- Q5the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)behaviorism30s
- Q6historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growthhumanistic psychology30s
- Q7the science of behavior and mental processespsychology30s
- Q8the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurturenature-nurture issue30s
- Q9the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival with most likely be passed on to succeeding generationsnatural selection30s
- Q10the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenonlevel of analysis30s
- Q11an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysisbiopsychosocial approach30s
- Q12a branch of psychology that studies the links between biological (including neuroscience and behavior genetics) and psychological processesbiological psychology30s
- Q13the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selectionevolutionary psychology30s
- Q14a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorderspsychodynamic psychology30s
- Q15the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learningbehavioral psychology30s