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AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 1 SOLUTION
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applied research - answer ✅✅research conducted in order to solve practicalproblems
Aristotle - answer ✅✅ancient Greek philosopher who developed theories of
sensation, perception, cognition, memory, problems olving, and ethics
assignment - answer ✅✅the process by which participants are put into a group,
experimental control
B. F. Skinner - answer ✅✅behaviorist who expanded the basic ideas of
behaviorism to include the idea of reinforcement- environmental stimuli that
either encourage or discourage certain responses
basic research - answer ✅✅explores questions that are of interest to
psychologists but are not intended to have immediate, real-world applications;
also referred to as experimental psychology
behavioral perspective - answer ✅✅modern psychological perspective that
explains human thought and behavior in terms of conditioning; looks strictly at
observable behaviors and what reaction organisms get in response to specific
behaviors
, behaviorism - answer ✅✅theory that states psychologists should look at only
behavior and causes of behavior, and not concern themselves with describing
elements of consciousness; dominant school of thought in psychology from the
1920s through the 1960s
biopsychology - answer ✅✅modern psychological perspective that explains
human thought and behavior strictly in terms of biological processes (e.g. genes,
hormones, and neurotransmitters)
clinical view - answer ✅✅psychological perspective emphasizing mental health
and mental illness; psychodynamic and humanistic psychology are variations of
this
cognitions - answer ✅✅mental processes, such as thinking, memory, sensation,
and perception
cognitive neuroscience - answer ✅✅an interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain
activity as information processing; involves cognitive psychology, neurology,
biology, computer science, linguistics, and specialists from other fields who are
interested in the connection between mental processes and the brain
cognitive perspective - answer ✅✅modern psychological perspective that
examines human thought and behavior in terms of how we interpret, process, and
remember environmental events
cohort-sequential study - answer ✅✅a research method in which a cross section
of the population is chosen and then each cohort is followed for a short period of
time
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