AP Psych

AP Psych

Biopsychosocial

This incorporates 3 different perspectives and types of analysis: biological, psychological, and social-cultural. The associated psychologists are George C. Engel and Jon Romano

If hostile marital interactions in the early middle years could wear down couples regulator systems through greater psychological distress, more-health risk factors, and a higher BMI → The result was negative outcomes for both husbands and wives!

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Evolutionary

The study of behavior, thought, and feeling through the lens of evolutionary biology. The associated psychologists are W>D Hamilton and Robert Trivers

A study by Dr. Nicholas Gueguen on one of the most effective ways to flirt.

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Behavioral

Human environment shapes human behavior. The associated psychologists are John Watson and B.F skinner.

Skinners testing of pigeons and their psychological fitness for battle.

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Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic

Human beings possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories. The associated psychologists are Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson.

A study was done on how we have limited access to all that goes on in our minds (true). (Erdelyi, 1985)

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Biological

The biological basis of behavior, thoughts, and emotions and the reciprocal relations between biological and psychological processes. The associated psychologists are Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.

Goodall studied primate behaviors which provided insights into primate and human behaviors (happened in the 1960s?).

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Cognitive

The study of psychology dedicated to how people think. The associated psychologists are Jean Piaget and Albert Bandura.

The Forgetting curve and the Serial Position Effect (Ebbinghaus 1902?)

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Social-Cultural

The study of psychology observing behavior and thinking across situations and cultures. The associated psychologists are Lev Vygotsky and Hazel Rose Markus.

The Bobo Doll Experiment (Bandura 1960s) → It’s investigated the impact of observed aggression on children’s behavior.

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Humanistic

An approach in psychology that focuses on the whole person. The associated psychologists are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.

In 1970, Maslow developed his ideas through studying healthy creative people. He based his description of self-actualization on a study of those like Abraham Lincoln.

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