AP Psych Multiple Choice Review

chemicals responsible for the feeling of "runner's high"

endorphins

Social-cultural perspective

how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

Psychodynamic perspective

how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

Positive correlation

relationship between two variables in which both variable increase or decrease together

Negative correlation

relationship between two variables in which one increases while the other decreases

Wilhelm Wundt

Father of psychology, Used the scientific method to focus on the structure of sensation and perception

Stanley Milgram's Obedience Study

Field of social psychology met with the greatest criticism about ethical issues

Humanistic perspective

How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment

Biological perspective

how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences; how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences

Evolutionary perspective

how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes

Cognitive perspective

how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information

Behavioral perspective

how we learn observable responses