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AP Psychology
Mr. Franklin
Prologue / History and Perspectives
Name
JEOPARDY
Scientists & Psychologists
Wilhelm Wundt
Established the first psychological lab in Germany (1879).
Sigmund Freud
Father of pschoanalysis.
Empiricism
Francis Bacon and John Locke’s scientific views led to the development
of this.
G. Stanley Hall
He established the first American psychological laboratory.
William James
Wrote a famous textbook “Principles of Psychology.”
Current Perspectives
Neuroscience
Study of how the brain creates emotions, memories, and sensory
experiences.
Evolutionary Psych.
Study of how nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of one’s
genes.
Behavioral
Study of learned observable and learned responses.
Cognitive
Study of how we encode, process, store and retrieve information (Thinking).
Sociocultural
Study of variations in behavior and thinking amongst cultures.
Debates and Subfields
Psychiatrists
These psychologists can prescribe medication as well.
Biopsychosocial
Method of analysis that combines 3 factors.
Developmental Psychologist They study our changing abilities from the womb to the tomb.
Change
Major debate in psychology known as “Stability vs.
Personality Psychologists These psychologists investigate our persistent traits.
Words and Terms
Introspection
Nature-Nurture
Natural Selection
Basic Research
Applied Research
Odds and Ends
Mary Calkins
Charles Darwin
Gestalt
Structuralism
Industrial/Organizational
.
Reflecting inwards and reporting your feelings.
The debate concerning the relative contributions of biology and
experience.
“Survival of the Fittest” refers to what priciple?
It’s the type of research that builds psychology’s knowledge base.
This type of research uses psychology’s theories to solve practical
problems.
She was a pioneer in memory research.
Proposed theories than influence Evolutionary Psychology.
This major school of psychology (or Wave) was interested in perception.
Which major school did Wilhelm Wundt found.
What type of psychologists study and advise on behavior in the
workplace?