AP Psychology ALL Terms And Solved Questions.

psychology - Correct answer the science of behavior and mental processes nature-nurture issue - Correct answer the long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors natural selection - Correct answer the 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 - Correct answer the perspective of psychological science that deals with how the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences evolutionary - Correct answer the perspective of psychological science that deals with how nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of one's genes behavior genetics - Correct answer the perspective of psychological science that deals with how much our genes, and our environment, influence our individual differences psychodynamic - Correct answer the perspective of psychological science that deals with how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts behavioral - Correct answer the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we learn observable responses cognitive - Correct answer the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information social-cultural - Correct answer the perspective of psychological science that deals with how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures basic research - Correct answer pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base applied research - Correct answer scientific study that aims to solve practical problems clinical psychology - Correct answer a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders psychiatry - Correct answer a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy hindsight bias (I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon) - Correct answer the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it critical thinking - Correct answer thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions theory - Correct answer an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations hypothesis - Correct answer a testable prediction, often implied by a theory operational definition - Correct answer a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures replication - Correct answer repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding generalizes to other participants and circumstances case study - Correct answer an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles survey - Correct answer a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them false consensus effect - Correct answer the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors population - Correct answer all the cases in a group, from which samples may be drawn for a study random sample - Correct answer a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion