Izzy's AP Psych Prologue
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 empiricism | the view that (a) knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and (b) science flourishes through observation and experiment |
| structuralism | an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind |
| functionalism | a school of thought that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish |
| psychology | the science of behavior and mental processes |
| nature-nurture issue | the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors |
| natural selection | the principal that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
| basic research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
| applied research | scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
| clinical psychology | a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
| psychiatry | a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy |
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