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AP Psych Unit 1
All stuff that was told to know for unit 1 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is psychology? | the scientific study of behavior or mental processes in an organism |
| Wilhelm Wundt | began the first psych lab in University of Leipzig, Germany |
| What year was the first psych lab made | 1879 |
| structuralism | structure of the mind |
| functionalism | function of the mind |
| behaviorism | observing behavior |
| Mary Whiten Calkins | first female president of the APA |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | first woman to earn a PHD in psych |
| Dorothea Dix | fought to improve perception of mentally ill people in jails/institutions |
| psychometrics | studying measurements of abilities |
| basic research | discovering concepts or processes |
| applied research | providing solutions to concepts or problems or processes |
| psychologist | PHD studying, accessing, and treating troubled people with therapy |
| psychiatrist | MD (medical professionals) who treat with drugs and therapy |
| Nature | we're born the way we are, genes and hormones explain our behavior/biology |
| Nurture | we're raised a certain way, environmental factors explain behavior/experience |
| What are the Seven Psychological Perspectives? | Biological, Evolutionary, Cognitive, Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Socio-cultural |
| Biological Perspective | explains behavior based off of biology (brain, hormones, genes) |
| Evolutionary Perspective | natural selection and survival of the fittest |
| Person example of Evolutionary Perspective | Charles Darwin |
| Cognitive Perspective | we behave how we do based off how we think in a situation |
| Person example of Cognitive Perspective | Jean Piaget |
| Humanistic Perspective | Growth, potential, positivity. "I'ma do what makes me happy" |
| Person example of Humanistic Perspective | Carl Rogers |
| Psychodynamic Perspective | we behave the way we do cuz of childhood or because we're influenced by the back of our mind w/o knowing. |
| Person example of Psychonamic Perspective | Freud |
| Behavioral Perspective | we do what we do because of what we learned or observed |
| Person example of Behavioral Perspective | Watson |
| Socio-cultural perspective | we behave how we do because of our environment |