AP Psych

How behavior springs from the unconscious drives and conflicts

• Behaviorist

• Psychoanalytic

• Humanist

• Cognitive

How we learn observable responses

• Humanist

• Biological

• Behaviorist

• Cognitive

Emphasizes concept of people controlling their destiny. Inherent worth of individuals. One tries to satisfy basic and enriching needs.

• Sociocultural

• Cognitive

• Humanist

• Biological

Believes a persons difficulties stem from false perceptions of reality. Peoples create ideas of the world upon these perceptions.

• Psychoanalytic

• cognititve

• Biological

• Behaviorist

Advocates stress from genetic, medical, and neurological component of the person

• Biological

• cognitive

• Socioculture

• Humanist

How behavior and thinking vary across situations and culture

• Humanist

• Behaviorist

• Psychodynamic

• Socioculture

What did Plato think/believe?

• Mental processes arose in the brain

• Mental processes DID NOT arise in the brain.

What did Aristotle believe?

• Mental processes didn't arise from the brain since the mind and the body are two different functions

• Mental processes did arise from the brain since the mind and the body are basically one in the same.

What did Hippocrates do?

• Created a 19 century science, based on the structure of the skull. Assumptions of brain specialization

• Created the scientific and systematic study of human behavior and responses to outside forces. (Ex: Environment, people, etc)

What did Rene Descartes do?

• Created the mentality of "I think therefor i am"

• Created the mentality of "I am because..."