DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology Wilhelm Wundt - ANS-First scientific laboratory Francis Bacon - ANS-Created Scientific method Biological Approach - ANS-Personality is linked to genetics Behavioral Approach - ANS-Study of observable behavior - Blank slate Cognitive Approach - ANS-How the mind learns and thinks Humanistic - ANS-All people are inherently good psychoanalytical - ANS-actions are based on unconscious motivation Structuralism - ANS-Classification of the mind's structures Functionalism - ANS-William James - the "how" part of behavior Nature vs. Nurture - ANS-Whether or not biology plays a part in personality Variable - ANS-a changing part of the person constant - ANS-a variable that always stays the same dependent variable - ANS-the variable the experiment is trying to get information about independent variable - ANS-the variables that the experimenter controls correlational research - ANS-how much one variable changes in relation to each other clinical psychologist - ANS-doctoral degree in psychology, cannot prescribe medicine psychiatrist - ANS-a medical doctor with a degree in psychotherapy, can prescribe drugs ethics - ANS-principals and standards of behavior including morals Hypothalamus - ANS-Part of the endocrine system autonomic nervous system - ANS-involuntary system sympathetic nervous system - ANS-arousing part of the system Continues...