Ap Psychology Vocab From Ch. 1

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Psychology

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pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base; goals: to understand, predict, and control behaviors.

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Empiricism

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a school of thought that holds that all knowledge comes by way of empirical experience, that is, through the senses.

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Structuralism

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psychology centering on the analysis of the structure or content of conscious mental states by introspective methods.

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Cognitive

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of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes.

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Functionalism

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the doctrine that emphasizes the adaptiveness of the mental or behavioral processes.

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Natural Selection

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The explanatory principle by which Darwin accounted for biological evolution. It refers to the greater number of offspring reaching sexual maturity shown by individual organisms possessing hereditary attributes that are advantageous in a given environment.

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Neuroscience

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the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.

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Evolutionary Psychology

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the branch of psychology that studies the mental adaptations of humans to a changing environment, esp. differences in behavior, cognition, and brain structure.

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Behaviorism

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A theoretical outlook that emphasizes the role of environment and of learning and insists that people must be studied objectively and from the outside.

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Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic

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any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors/a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.