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