ap psycho vocab
AP Psychology Extra Credit Vocab
Unit 1: History, approaches and research methods
1. Psychology – the study of the human mind and its functions
2. Empiricism – the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
3. John Locke – Created idea of “tabula rasa” (blank slate), which means that the mind at birth is blank and we learn from experience.
4. Wilhelm Wundt – did psychology’s first “experiment”, while seeking to measure “atoms of the mind”
5. Consciousness – the awareness of our surroundings
6. G. Stanley Hall – considered the stage of adolescence as simply a change in human experience
7. Structuralism – an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind
8. Edward Titchener – brought the ‘new” experimental psychology to the United States. Studied introspection and structuralism.
9. Introspection- looking inward at the brain’s structure
10. Subject – topic or person
11. Functionalism – a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function – how they enable us to adapt, survive and flourish
12. William James – Studied functionalism, encouraged exploration of down to earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits and streams of consciousness. Researched memory
13. Stream of consciousness – moment to moment thoughts
14. Sigmund Freud- emphasized the power of the unconscious and sexual drive. Focused on personality and stages of consciousness and psychosexual stages (oral, anal, phallic, and genital). Also psychoanalytical therapy
15. Psychoanalysis- branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders
16. Unconscious - part of the mind unreachable by the conscious
17. Freudian slips – error in speech, memory or physical action that occurs due to an unconscious interference (drive,
Unit 1: History, approaches and research methods
1. Psychology – the study of the human mind and its functions
2. Empiricism – the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
3. John Locke – Created idea of “tabula rasa” (blank slate), which means that the mind at birth is blank and we learn from experience.
4. Wilhelm Wundt – did psychology’s first “experiment”, while seeking to measure “atoms of the mind”
5. Consciousness – the awareness of our surroundings
6. G. Stanley Hall – considered the stage of adolescence as simply a change in human experience
7. Structuralism – an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind
8. Edward Titchener – brought the ‘new” experimental psychology to the United States. Studied introspection and structuralism.
9. Introspection- looking inward at the brain’s structure
10. Subject – topic or person
11. Functionalism – a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function – how they enable us to adapt, survive and flourish
12. William James – Studied functionalism, encouraged exploration of down to earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits and streams of consciousness. Researched memory
13. Stream of consciousness – moment to moment thoughts
14. Sigmund Freud- emphasized the power of the unconscious and sexual drive. Focused on personality and stages of consciousness and psychosexual stages (oral, anal, phallic, and genital). Also psychoanalytical therapy
15. Psychoanalysis- branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders
16. Unconscious - part of the mind unreachable by the conscious
17. Freudian slips – error in speech, memory or physical action that occurs due to an unconscious interference (drive,