AP Psych Vocab
Dualism
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Ex: Studying why people develop phobias.
The belief that mind and body are separate but interact. Ex: Descartes’ idea that thoughts can affect the body.
External influences such as family, culture, and education.
Environment.
What comes after the CNS
peripheral nervous system
ANS definition
governs processes that are involuntary and includes the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.
Introspection
The process of examining one’s own thoughts and feeling
An in-depth investigation of one person or group.
Case Study
PNS definition
relays messages from the central nervous system to the rest of the body and includes the autonomic and somatic nervous systems.
sns definition
The somatic nervous system governs processes that are voluntary.
Hypothesis
A testable prediction about the relationship between two or more variables.
A psychologist who studied the basic elements of conscious experience
Natural Selection
Definition
Includes the brain and the spinal cord and interacts with all processes in the body
Sympathetic NS
Prepares the body for the
“fight or flight”
response