Study of mental processes in the broadest sense.

Biological Psychology

Literal study of the parts of the Brain, nervous system, endocrine system.

Cognitive Neuroscience

The interdisciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognition.

Full potential - Observing all facets of life that can give us info of what we are capable of.

Field of psych that explores how particular behaviors and environmental factors may be attributed to specific, genetically based psychological characteristics.

Evolutionary Psychology

Focuses on the origins of the human mind and behavior.

Socio-Cultural Psychology

School of psychology that emphasizes how society and culture can shape one's behaviors and thought processes.

Biopsychosocial Approach

Model that considers the complex interactions between biological, psychological, and social factors.

Developmental Psychology

Focuses on conducting research on age-related behavioral changes and applying scientific knowledge to educational, child-care, policy, and related settings.

Educational Psychology

Focuses on psychological processes involved in learning. Studies the relationship between learning and the physical and social environments.

Personality Psychology

Focuses on studying how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors differ from one another and how they work together to make a person unique.

Focuses on interactions with others. Studies how our beliefs, feelings, and behaviors are affected by and influence other people.

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Focuses on the relationship between people and their working environments. Develops ways to increase productivity, improve personnel selection, or promote job satisfaction.

Human Factors Psychology

Focuses on working with designers and engineers to tailor appliances, machines, and work settings to our natural perceptions and inclinations.

Counseling Psychology

Focuses on helping people adjust to life transitions or make lifestyle changes. Although similar to clinical psychologists, they help people with adjustment problems rather than severe psychopathology.

Focuses on promoting psychological health in individuals, groups, and organizations. Some clinical psychologists specialize in specific psychological disorders.

Focuses on treatment via medical doctors licensed to prescribe drugs and otherwise treat physical causes of psychological disorders.

Focuses on the scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.

Focuses on moving beyond focusing on specific individuals or families and deal with broad problems of mental health in community settings.

Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base.

Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.

A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.

False Consensus Effect

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors.

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

Perceiving order in random events. A tendency to see patterns in events that are completely random.

Set of statistical techniques for combining data from independent studies to produce a single estimate of effect. Very objective and accurate.

Naturalistic Observation

Involves the systematic study of behavior in natural settings rather than a laboratory. Participants cannot know they are being watched.

Oldest form of descriptive research. Focuses on a single person or group over a long period of time. Participants can know they're being watched.

Process of reasoning that moves from specific observations to broader generalizations.

Atypical Case Studies

Cannot be generalized to overall human population.

Correlational Research

Type of research technique based on the naturally occurring relationship between two or more variables. Involves the use of scatterplots.

Experimental Research

A research technique in which an investigator deliberately manipulates selected events or circumstances and then measures the effects of those manipulations on subsequent behavior.

Double-Blind Experiment

When the experimenter and subjects both do not know anything about the experiment.

Feeling as if in the experimental group while being in the control group.

When subjects of an experimental study change or improve their behavior because it is being evaluated or studied.

Descriptive Statistics

Numerical data used to measure & describe characteristics of groups. (Refers to Central Tendency & Measures of Variation).

A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.

A normal distribution - A symmetrical bell-shaped curve describing the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean.

Inferential Statistics

Numerical data that helps us determine if results can be generalized to a larger population.

Statistical Significance

How likely it is than an obtained result occurred by chance or if it truly represented the overall population.

A statistical measure used to determine the likelihood that an observed outcome is the result of chance.

Falsely concluding your data as statistically significant.

Falsely concluding your data as not statistically significant.

AP Psychology Unit 0 Flash Cards Flashcards

Student preview

50 questions

Show all answers

1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Psychology

Back

The science of behavioral and mental processes.

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Introspection

Back

To look within.

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Perception

Back

How we organize and interpret sensory information.

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Psychodynamics

Back

School of psychology that believes one's behavior/personality is a result of interactions of the individual outside of their conscious awareness.

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Behaviorism

Back

A psychological theory that studies how people and animals learn and behave through interactions with their environment.

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Operant Conditioning

Back

Conditioning through reinforcements and punishments.

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Existential Psychology

Back

Who am I? How we exist. Self-concept.

Access all questions and much more by creating a free account

Create resources

Host any resource

Get auto-graded reports

Continue with Google

Continue with Email

Continue with Classlink

Continue with Clever

or continue with

Microsoft

Apple

Others

Already have an account?

Similar Resources on Wayground

47 questions

Vocabulary Flashcards

Flashcard

•

10th Grade

35 questions

Theatre Terminology

Flashcard

•

8th Grade - University

37 questions

BOH4M Unit 1- Foundations of Management_MR_T

Flashcard

•

12th Grade

54 questions

Reviewer-ITSM

Flashcard

•

KG - University

36 questions

U.S. History: Slavery and Political Events (1800s)

Flashcard

•

11th Grade

54 questions

Elections and Politics Terms

Flashcard

•

12th Grade

34 questions

Bach Flash Cards

Flashcard

•

11th Grade

33 questions

Cell Structures and Functions

Flashcard

•

6th Grade - University

Popular Resources on Wayground

15 questions

Fractions on a Number Line

Quiz

•

3rd Grade

20 questions

Equivalent Fractions

Quiz

•

3rd Grade

25 questions

Multiplication Facts

Quiz

•

5th Grade

29 questions

Alg. 1 Section 5.1 Coordinate Plane

Quiz

•

9th Grade

$fractions$

22 questions

fractions

Quiz

•

3rd Grade

11 questions

FOREST Effective communication

Lesson

•

KG

20 questions

Main Idea and Details

Quiz

•

5th Grade

20 questions

Context Clues

Quiz

•

6th Grade

Discover more resources for Other

29 questions

Alg. 1 Section 5.1 Coordinate Plane

Quiz

•

9th Grade

20 questions

El Verbo IR Practice

Quiz

•

9th Grade

20 questions

-AR -ER -IR present tense

Quiz

•

10th - 12th Grade

10 questions

Cell Organelles and Their Functions

Interactive video

•

6th - 10th Grade

20 questions

Graphing Inequalities on a Number Line

Quiz

•

6th - 9th Grade

20 questions

Combining Sentences

Lesson

•

9th Grade

22 questions

El Imperfecto

Quiz

•

9th - 12th Grade

20 questions

Box and Whisker Plots

Quiz

•

9th Grade