AP Psych 1-25 Vocab

Behaviorism/Behavioral Perspective

The perspective that emphasizes that behavior and mental processes result from learning + can be identified through observable behavior.

Classical conditioning

A type of learning in which a response naturally elicited by one stimulus comes to be elicited by a different, formerly neutral stimulus

Ego

Freud’s term for the part of the personality that mediates between the environmental demand (reality), conscience (superego), and instinctual needs (id); now often called the “self”

Functionalism

School of psychology that emphasizes mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses perceptual abilities to function in its environment.

Hierarchy of Needs

A theory of motivation advanced by Maslow holding that higher order motives involving social and personal growth only emerge after lower motives related to survival have been met.