AP Psychology - Approaches

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

• humanistic approach

• psychology

• sociocultural approach

• social psychology

Stresses the importance of early childhood development and experiences with parents in developing personality, Psychologists who use this perspective believe that our unconscious mind is what controls the majority of our cognition and behavior

• tabula rasa

• psychodynamic approach

• psychoanalytic approach

• evolutionary approach

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

• psychoanalytic approach

• sociocultural approach

• humanistic approach

• biopsychosocial approach

an integrated approach to psychology that incorporates three different perspectives and types of analysis: biological, psychological, and social-cultural (hint: it's in the name)

• psychoanalytic approach

• humanistic approach

• sociocultural approach

• biopsychosocial approach

mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning

• cognitive approach

• psychodynamic approach

• psychology

• neurology

focuses on the internal, unconscious mental forces that individuals are largely unaware of, but drive emotions and actions

• sociocultural approach

• biopsychosocial approach

• psychodynamic approach

• behaviorism

focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment

• evolutionary approach

• behavioral approach

• sociocultural approach

• tabula rasa

how genes influence human behavior

• genetic approach

• evolutionary approach

• social psychology

• psychoanalytic approach