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AP Psychology Semester 1 Final Review (Chapters 1-7B) Containing 334 Terms with Definitive Solutions . Terms like: Empiricism - Answer: The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.

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AP Psychology Semester 1 Final Review
(Chapters 1-7B) Containing 334 Terms
with Definitive Solutions 2024-2025
Empiricism - Answer: The view that knowledge originates in experience and that
science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.


Structuralism - Answer: An early school of psychology that used introspection to
explore the structural elements of the human mind.




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Functionalism - Answer: A school of psychology that focused on how our mental
and behavioral process’s function—how they enable us to adapt, survive, and
flourish.


Experimental Psychology - Answer: The study of behavior and thinking using the
experimental method.


Behaviorism - Answer: The view that psychology should be an objective science
that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.


Humanistic Psychology - Answer: Historically significant perspective that
emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential
for personal growth.


Cognitive Neuroscience - Answer: The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity
linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).


Psychology - Answer: The science of behavior and mental processes.


Nature-Nurture Issue - Answer: The longstanding controversy over the relative
contributions that genes and experience make to the development of
psychological traits and behaviors.


Natural Selection - 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.


Nature-Nurture Issue - Answer: Nurture works on what nature endows.

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Psychometrics - Answer: The scientific study of the measurement of human
abilities, attitudes, and traits.


Basic Research - Answer: Pure science that aims to increase the scientific
knowledge base.


Developmental Psychology - Answer: The scientific study of physical, cognitive,
and social change throughout the life span.


Educational Psychology - Answer: The study of how psychological processes affect
and can enhance teaching and learning.


Personality Psychology - Answer: The study of an individual's characteristic
pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.


Social Psychology - Answer: The scientific study of how we think about, influence,
and relate to one another.


Applied Research - Answer: Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.


Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Answer: The application of psychological
concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces.


Hindsight Bias - Answer: The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that
one would have foreseen it.



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Critical Thinking - Answer: Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and
conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates
evidence, and assesses conclusions.


Theory - Answer: An explanation using an integrated set of principles that
organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.


Hypothesis - Answer: A testable prediction, often implied by a theory.


Operational Definition - Answer: A statement of the procedures used to define
research variables.


Replication - Answer: Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with
different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding
extends to other participants and circumstances.


Case Study - Answer: An observation technique in which one person is studied in
depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.


Survey - Answer: A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or
behaviors of a particular group.


Population - Answer: All the cases in a group being studied.


Random Sample - Answer: A sample that fairly represents a population because
each member has an equal chance of inclusion.



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