AP Psychology Unit 0

Psychodynamic Perspective

Perspective focusing on how the unconscious mind and childhood experiences influence behavior.

Behavioral Perspective

Perspective focusing primarily on observable behavior to environmental stimuli and how it shapes one's actions and behavior.

Humanistic Perspective

Perspective focusing on the human qualities of freedom, potential growth, and motivation and how they affect one's personality and behavior.

Cognitive Perspective

Perspective focusing on how mental processes such as memory, thought, and problem solving are involved in acquiring knowledge.

Biological Perspective

Perspective focusing on physical aspects such as genetics and brain structures and how they affect one's behavior and personality.

Evolutionary Perspective

Perspective focusing on how adaptive processes and natural selection develop one's behavior and traits, as well as their children's behaviors and traits.

Social-Cognitive (Learning) Perspective

Humans learn behaviors by observing others and choosing which behaviors to imitate.

Socio-Cultural Perspective

Perspective focusing on how personality and behavior vary across one's background culture and social situations.

Pyschodynamacists

Freud and Neo-Freudians Jung, Alder

Behaviorists

Watson, Pavlov, Skinner

Humanists

Maslow, Rodgers

Cognitists

Wundt, Piaget, Chomsky

Biologists

Sperry, Gazzaniga

Evolutionists

Darwin

Social-Cognitists

Bandera

Evolutionary Keywords

Adapt, Survive

Social-Cognitive Keywords

Modeling, Observational learning

Cognitive Keywords

Thoughts, Perception, Language

Behavioral Keywords

Conditioning, Reinforcement, Environment

Humanistic Keywords

-self, Freewill, Choices

Psychodynamic Keywords

Unconscious, Childhood, Internal. Repression

Socio-Cultural Keywords

Gender, Ethnicity, Socio-Economic status

Levels of Analysis

The differing complementary views for analyzing any given phenomenon.

Biopsychosocial Approach

An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and socio-cultural levels of analysis, offers a more complete picture of behaviors and mental processes.

Basic Research

Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base.

Applied Research

Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.

Counseling Psychology

A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being.

Clinical Psychology

A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.

Positive Psychology

The scientific study of human functioning with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities thrive.

Community Psychology

A branch of psychology that studies how people interact with their social environments and how social institutions affect individuals and groups.

Psychiatry

A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; providing drug treatments as well as psychological therapy.