AP Psychology Unit 1 Vocab

Environmental influences, especially love and acceptance, determine if we become all we can in life.

• Humanistic Approach

• Psychoanalytic theory

• Evolutionary approach

• social domain

 The first humanistic psychologist ; created the hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization is the highest transcendence

• Abraham Maslow

• Sigmund Freud

• Wilhelm Wundt

• B. F. Skinner

Very Important Humanistic psychologist who stressed the importance of acceptance, genuineness, and empathy in fostering human growth through his Self Theory

• Sigmund Freud

• Alfred Adler

• Carl Rogers

• Carl Jung

Stresses the importance of early childhood development, experiences with parents in developing personality, and that the unconscious mind controls our behavior and thoughts.

• Sociocultural approach

• Psychoanalytic approach

• Biological domain

• Cognitive domain

suggests that human behavior is influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts, and urges.

• psychoanalytic theory

• educational domain

• experimental domain

• psychometric domain

stores all of the unacceptable thoughts and desires, which are sometimes repressed

• conscious mind

• unconscious mind

• sociocultural approach

• preconscious mind

 all of the thoughts that we are aware of and express.

• conscious mind

• behavior

• repressed

• unconscious mind

1. considers the way that different individuals interact with their social groups and how these social groups influence different individuals and how they develop throughout their lives

• biopsychosocial approach

• positive domain

• developmental domain

• sociocultural approach

considers how the human race has managed to survive for this long and how it has managed to become better as time goes on.

• introspection

• clinical domain

• evolutionary approach

• biological psychology

an integrated approach to psychology that incorporates three different perspectives and types of analysis: biological, psychological, and social-cultural

• sociocultural approach

• biopsychosocial approach

• experimental domain

• cognitive domain