AP Psychology Unit 1 Vocab

Clinical Psychologist

Treat mental. emotional and behavioral disorders.

Psychiatrists

MD’s who treat disorders and PRESCRIBE MEDICATION

Counseling Psychologist

Help Utilize strenghts to cope with adversity

Positive Psychologist

Focus on well being and conditions that foster thriving

Community Psychologist

Strengthen Systems/ organizations to meet group needs.

Educational Psychologist

Study effective learning processes.

Experimental Psychologist

Use empirical methods to advance scientific knowledge ( treatment it assigned)

Industrial/ Organizational Psychologist

Apply research to improve workplace productivity and quality of life

Psychometric Psychologist

Design experiments and analyze psychological data (Measure)

Sport Psychologist

Help athletes maintain motivation and manage competition challenges.

Anecdotal Data

Evidence collected in a casual or informal way manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal experience.

Empiracal Data

Evidence collected through scientifc method— based on observation and or experimentation

Psychodynamic Perspective

Behavior is the result of the unconscious mind
Child hood events play major role in shaping us as adults

Biological Perspective

Behavior is a result of biological processes and physical structure in the brain and body.

Cognitive Perspective

Behavior is a result of mental processes.
How we remembers and make decisions can be studied along with how we explain errors in memory and thinking.

Social Cultural Perspective

Behavior is a result of situational and cultural contexts
To understand the actions of an individual you must examine the situation in which they occured.
Societal factors

Evolutionary Perspective

Behavior is a result of our motivation to survive and reproduce.

Behavioral Perspective

Learning from experience
Belief that we are born a blank slate

Humanistic Perspective

Motivated by growth
Free will and meeting basic needs before other desires.

Experiment Research Method

Manipulates one or more variables in a controlled enviorment

Naturilistic Observation Research Method

Observing behavior in naturally occurring situations without interfering.

Case Study Research Method

a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth

Correlation Research Method

a measure of the extent to which two variable change together and how will either variable predict the other

Meta Analysis

A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.

Quasi Experiment Research Method

research that manipulates factors to test and idea in a controlled setting BUT does not include random assignment to control/ experimental groups.

Longitudinal

Data is gathered for the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time (observational study)

Cross— Sectional

Data is collected from a population or sample at a specific point in time.