AP Psychology Unit 1 Vocabulary

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

• Behaviorism

• Psychology

• Clinical Study

• Functionalism

Type of learning that involves rewards and punishments.

• Operant Conditioning

• Developmental Psychology

• Structuralism

• Meta-analysis

When participants are placed into experiment and control groups at random.

• random sample

• random assignment

• stratified sample

• psychometrics

When someone alters their behavior when they know they are being watched.

• Confounding Variable

• Hawthorne Effect

• Functionalism

• Learning Perspective

Clearly defined procedures in a scientific study.

• Confounding Variables

• Psychometrics

• Operational Definitions

• Meta-analysis

Type of learning that involves unconditioned, neutral, and conditioned stimuli in an effort to teach a learned response.

• Clinical Psychology

• Psychoanalysis

• Operant Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

Analysis of mental processes, the brain, thinking, memory, forgetting, problem solving etc.

• Cognitive Psychology

• Developmental Psychology

• Clinical Psychology

• Biological Perspective

Any action that can be observed or measured- can be overt or covert.

• Psychoanalysis

• Behavior

• Cognitive Activities

• Psychometrics

Dreams, thoughts, emotions are examples of:

• Psychometrics

• Psychoanalysis

• Behavior

• Cognitive Activities

Research principle where individuals are divided into groups based on percentages within a population.

• Stratified Sample

• Random Sample

• Operational Definitions

• Confounding Variable