AP Psych Test 1 Study Guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Psychodynamic | A study of psychology developed by freud which states that people are driven by unconscious. More specifically, Libido (sex) and Thanatos (aggression). |
| Aristotle | First person to inquire about psychology. He believed psychological issues often have biological routes. |
| Locke's viewpoint | Tabula Rasa (blank slate): The environment affects a human's behavior. |
| Descartes' viewpoint | Cognito Ergo Sum "I think therefore I am." |
| Hippocrates' viewpoint | Medical connection to Psychology. |
| Who first led psychology towards science? | Wilhelm Wundt with his experiment on delayed response. |
| What is Structuralism? | A theory founded by Titchner. |
| What is Functionalism? | A theory founded by James |
| Operational Definition | Description/definition of experiment. Very specific wording so one can replicate. |
| Correlational Studies | One seeks to find relationships and trends that exist naturally. |
| What is the technical name for a survey? | A forced response questionnaire. |
| What is the technical name for a case study? | A longitudinal study |
| Range (graph) | The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution. |
| Wilhelm Wundt | A German man who was the first to study psychology in the lab in 1879. |
| Structuralism | Structuralism analyzes fields of thought and ideologies among other things as systems and examines how they are interrelated. |
| Functionalism | Functionalism studies societal institutions (education, government, etc) and examines how they affect and meet people's needs. |
| Edward Titchner | Introduced structuralism. Tried to discover the structural elements of the mind through "self-reflective introspection" |
| William James | James assumed that thinking, like smelling, developed because it was adaptive—it contributed to our ancestors' survival. As a functionalist, James encouraged explorations of down-to-earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment-to-moment streams of consciousness. |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | A pioneering memory researcher and the first woman to be president of the American Psychological Association. |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | First woman to receive a psychology Ph.D |
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