Myers’ Psychology for AP Second Edition Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches

Margaret Floy Washburn

________ was given the claim to psychologys first female with a Ph.

Professor Wundt

________ was conducting an experiment regarding people hearing a sound.

Clinical psychologists

________ can conduct research, teaching, and assessment.

Aristotle

________ believed knowledge was not preexisting but rather grows from experience.

Psychology

________ has helped influence modern culture because it grows knowledge.

Developmental psychologists

________ study age related behaviors and changes.

Neuropsychologists

________ study the structure and function of the nervous system and its relationship with behavior.

Experimental psychologists

________ study the behavioral processes of humans and animals.

John Locke

________ went on to write and essay arguing that the mind is a blank slate, tabula rasa, that experience writes upon.

Humanistic psychology

________: a historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people.

Industrial organizational psychologists

________ study the relationship between people and their work environments.

Locke

________ rejected the idea of humans being born with knowledge and Descartes disagreed with him.

Frenchmen René Descartes

________ agreed with Socrates and Plato.

James

Who was a functionalist so he wanted people to explore emotions, memories, willpower, habits, etc? Answer with a single words or term.

Psychometrics

________: the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits.

Natural selection

________: the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

Empiricism

________: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.

Forensic psychologists

Applied Research Subfields: ________ use psychology for legal issues.

Community

________ psychologists focus on the broad mental health problems in the ________.

Rehabilitation psychologists

________ work with those who have lost function after an accident or illness.

Social psychology

________: the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

Levels of analysis

________: the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social- cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon.

Educational psychologists

________ study the process of learning.