Week 2 AP Vocabulary

Question 1

Functionalism

Answer 1

A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function.

Question 2

Behaviorism

Answer 2

The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologist agree with (1) but not (2).

Question 3

Structuralism

Answer 3

An early school of psychology that uses introspection to explore the structural element of the human mind.

Question 4

Psychodynamic Psychology

Answer 4

A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and use that information to treat people with psychological disorders.

Question 5

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 5

The interdisciplinary study the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language.)

Question 6

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 6

A scientific study of all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

Question 8

Hindsight Bias

Answer 8

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it (I-knew-it-all-along-phenomenon)

Question 8

Biopsychosocial Approach

Answer 8

An integrated approach that incorporates, biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.

Question 9

Theory

Answer 9

An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.

Question 10

Random Sample

Answer 10

A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.