Section 1 AP Psyc

knowledge is gained through experiences

Empiricism

John Locke

Empiricism ( knowledge is gained through experience)

The first woman to serve as president of the American Psychological Association was

Mary Calkins

the approach that contends psychology must study internal mental events in order to fully understand behavior is

cognitive psychology

behavior:

Any action that may be observed and measured.

Mind and body are not separate (monism) Ideas resulted from experiences

Aristotle

The psychologist who took the position that organisms tend to repeat responses that lead to positive outcomes and tend not to repeat responses that lead to neutral or negative outcomes was

B.F skinner

stressed the psychology should only study behaviors that could be both observed and measured

Behaviorism

Mental Processes:

includes cognitions, sensations, perceptions , and emotions (how we think)

investiate the contribution of diversity and culture to human behavior and mental process

socio- culture

B.F Skinner

stressed punishment and reinforcements worked on operant conditioning

Edward Titchener

structuralism

the worlds largest organization devoted to the advancement of psychology is the

American Psychological association

Margaret floy washburn

1st woman to formally receive PHD in psych

the person who established americas first psychological research lab and launched americas first psych journal was

G.Stanley Hall

Which of the following groups of psychologist would be MOST likely to focus on individual uniqueness freedom, and potential growth as a person

Humanism

If you take a sip of a soft drink and concentrate on what you are experiencing ( cold, bubbly, sweet) you would be utilizing the technique of?

Introspection

The psychologist who proposed that the study of consciousness should be replaced by the study of behavior was

John B watson

first to combine philosophy and physiology

Rene Descartes

Body and mind separate, only mind survived after death . . . ideas are innate

Socrates and Plato

this person is responsible for est. psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject matter. also created the first lab dedicated to psych

Wilhelm wundt

Sigmund Freud developed an innovative procedure for treating people with psychological problems

behavior modification

The school of psychology that suggests psychologist should study only what can be objectively observed is

behaviorism

the school of psychology that was MOST responsible for the rise of animal research is

behaviorism

Although functionalism faded away as a theoretical force in psychology, historians credit it with two important contributions to the discipline

behaviorism and applied psychology

Ivan Pavlov

believed behaviors were learned through associaton led to classical conditioning

focuses on explaining human behaivors emotions and mental processes as having psychological causes

biological

The area of applied psychology MOST stimulated by world war II was

clinical psychology

concerned with the process of thinking and memory as well as attention , imagery, creativity, problem solving, and language

cognition

The approach that examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for a species over the course of many generations is

evolutionary

Structuralism

examining consciousness by breaking it down into basic components or structures (sensations, images, and feelings)

functionalism

focused on discovering the evolved functions if behavior and mental processes

John B Watson

founder of behaviorism

The early approach in psychology that fostered the development of modern day applied psychology was

functionalism

The school of psychology associated with understanding the purpose of behavior was

functionalism

The theoretical viewpoint that is MOST closely associated with Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow is

humanism

traits and behaivors exist in humans because these attributes allowed our ancestors to adapt survive and reproduce

natural selection

Freud concluded that psychological disturbances are largely caused by

personal conflicts existing at an unconscious level

the viewpoint in psychology that uses theory and research to understand the adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence is known as

positive psychology

William James

published 1st text of psychology

Pysychology:

the scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human and nonhuman