Exam (elaborations) AP Psychology ALL Terms

AP Psychology ALL Terms psychology - /nthe science of behavior and mental processes nature-nurture issue - /nthe long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors natural selection - /nthe principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations neuroscience - /nthe perspective of psychological science that deals with how the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences evolutionary - /nthe perspective of psychological science that deals with how nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of one's genes behavior genetics - /nthe perspective of psychological science that deals with how much our genes, and our environment, influence our individual differences psychodynamic - /nthe perspective of psychological science that deals with how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts