AP Psychology
History & Approaches
Spring 2014
Reading Guide:History & Approaches
Barron’s Book
Chapter 1 (45-54)
People
Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Titchener
William James
Mary Whiton Calkins
Margaret Floy Washburn
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
John B. Watson
B.F. Skinner
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Charles Darwin
*Dorothea Dix*
*G. Stanley Hall*
Other Concepts:
(2-4% of AP Test)
Prologue (Pages 1-11)
Perspectives
The Early Years
Structuralism
Functionalism
Contemporary Perspectives
Behaviorism
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
Humanism
Evolutionary
Biological (Neuroscience)
Cognitive
Social-Cultural
Domains (subfields) of Psychology
Biological
Developmental
Cognitive
Personality
Social
Counseling
Industrial/Organizational
Clinical
Psychiatry
*Educational*
*Experimental*
*Human Factors* (pg. 279-281)
*Psychometric*
Introspection
Nature-Nurture Debate (nurture allows what nature endows)
Applied Research
Natural Selection
Biopsychosocial Model
Ways to research
History of Psychology
 How and when did psychological science begin?
 What is Introspection?
 What are Structuralism & Functionalism?
 How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920s through today?
 Why did Behaviorism develop?
 How did Humanists disagree with Behaviorists?
 What was the Cognitive Revolution?
 Big overarching question of section: How did Psychology become a science?
Contemporary Psychology
 What is the focus of each contemporary/current perspective?
 How do the perspectives differ from one another in their approach?
Domains (Subfields) of Psychology
 Understand the difference between Basic Research & Applied Research.
 Understand the differences between Counseling Psychology & Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry