Ap Psych Notes
AP Psych Notes
Unit 1
Slide 1: Essential Questions
What ways does psychology approach the study of human and animal behavior?
How has psychology changed the study of human and animal behavior?
How do the different perspectives in psychology compare and contrast?
Slide 2: Psychology
Comes from two Greek words… psyche, meaning “life” or “self” logos, referring to reasoning and logic
Slide 3: Psychology’s Roots
Psychology
Study of behavior and mental processes aims to describe and explain how we think, feel, and act
Behavior
anything an organism does any action we can observe/record examples: yelling, smiling, blinking, talking
Mental Processes internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
Examples: sensations, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, feelings
Slide 4: Questions People In Field Of Psychology Try To Answer…
Do violent video games encourage violent behavior?
What are the best colors to use in a fast food restaurant?
Why do some people worry more than others?
How could anyone do something like that?
Slide 5: What Do Psychologists Do…
APA lists 5 major areas of work:
Conduct research
Promote physical and mental health
Help people learn
Work in the community
Contribute to the work environment
Slide 6: Different Looks of A Psychologist: white coated scientist poking a rat’s brain an executive evaluating a new “healthy life-styles” training program for employees someone at a computer analyzing data on whether adopted teens’ temperaments more closely resemble those of their adoptive/biological parents therapist listening to client’s depressed thoughts a teacher teaching a class psych is a meeting ground for different disciplines
Slide 7: Subfields biological psychology experimental psychology developmental psychology cognitive psychology social psychology personality psychology clinical psychology criminal psychology school psychology educational psychology organizational psychology
engineering
Unit 1
Slide 1: Essential Questions
What ways does psychology approach the study of human and animal behavior?
How has psychology changed the study of human and animal behavior?
How do the different perspectives in psychology compare and contrast?
Slide 2: Psychology
Comes from two Greek words… psyche, meaning “life” or “self” logos, referring to reasoning and logic
Slide 3: Psychology’s Roots
Psychology
Study of behavior and mental processes aims to describe and explain how we think, feel, and act
Behavior
anything an organism does any action we can observe/record examples: yelling, smiling, blinking, talking
Mental Processes internal, subjective experiences we infer from behavior
Examples: sensations, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, feelings
Slide 4: Questions People In Field Of Psychology Try To Answer…
Do violent video games encourage violent behavior?
What are the best colors to use in a fast food restaurant?
Why do some people worry more than others?
How could anyone do something like that?
Slide 5: What Do Psychologists Do…
APA lists 5 major areas of work:
Conduct research
Promote physical and mental health
Help people learn
Work in the community
Contribute to the work environment
Slide 6: Different Looks of A Psychologist: white coated scientist poking a rat’s brain an executive evaluating a new “healthy life-styles” training program for employees someone at a computer analyzing data on whether adopted teens’ temperaments more closely resemble those of their adoptive/biological parents therapist listening to client’s depressed thoughts a teacher teaching a class psych is a meeting ground for different disciplines
Slide 7: Subfields biological psychology experimental psychology developmental psychology cognitive psychology social psychology personality psychology clinical psychology criminal psychology school psychology educational psychology organizational psychology
engineering