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AP Psychology Notes
Unit One
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Psychology
10th Grade
02/06/2011

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Historical Foundations
(Philosophy & Physiology)
Definition
-Is the world we perceive reality? Is there free will?
-How do physical parts of the body work?
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Wilhelm Wundt
Definition
Founded first psychology lab. The father of psychology.
Term
James
Definition
Founder of Functionalism
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Functionalism
Definition
How behaviors & consciousness helps us adapt to the environment.
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Structuralism
Definition
The structure of thoughts/sensations
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Introspection
Definition
Self-report of experiences and descriptions of sensations.
Term
Sigmund Freud
Definition
-Psychoanalytic Theory
-Stressed early childhood experiances
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Watson and Skinner
Definition
-Worked on behaviorism
-"You can train anyone to do anything with the right reward."
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Gall
Definition
Invented Phrenology.
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Phrenology
Definition
The crackpot theory that bumps on your head determine personality.
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Phrenology
Definition
The crackpot theory that bumps on your head determine personality.
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John Locke
Definition
-Tabula Rasa
-All ideas come from experience.
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Milgrams Study
Definition
Shock test experiment
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Maslows
Definition
Hierarchy of Needs
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Titchner
Definition
Founded structuralism & introspection
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Max
Definition
Invented Gestalt Psychology
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Dualism
Definition
Body influences mind / vice versa.
Term
Hippocrates founded the idea of...
Definition
Humors controlling everything mental.
Term
Rene Descartes
Definition
Invented Dualism
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Cognitive Psychology
Definition
The study of all mental actions associated with thinking.
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Behaviorist Psychology
Definition
The study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principals of learning.
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Psychoanalytic- Psychodynamic
Definition
Study of how unconscious drives affect behaviors.
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Social-Cultural
Definition
The study of how situations and cultures effect out behavior and thinking.
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Biopsychological
Definition
Combined biological, psychological and social-cultural levels of analysis.
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Humanist
Definition
How feelings affect a persons ability for personal growth and fulfillment.
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Evolutionary
Definition
How the natural selection of traits promotes survival of genes
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Naturalistic Observation
Definition
Simply observation
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Experimentation
Definition
experimenting
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Surveys
Definition
Questions asked to the general public
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Case Study
Definition
Examining one individual in hopes of revealing things true of us all.
Term
Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Studies
Definition
In which people of different ages are compared and observed over a long period of time.
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IV and DV
Definition
-What we change
-Whats impacted by the IV
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Operational Definitions
Definition
A statement of the procedure used to define research variables.
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Confounding Variables
Definition
Variables other than the IV that may impact or alter the DV
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