AP Psychology Unit 1 & 2 Review Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers
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AP Psychology Unit 1 & 2 Review Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers
Socrates and Plato - Correct Answer - the mind is separate from the body
- knowledge is innate
- derived principles by logic
Francis Bacon
John Locke - Correct Answer - relied on common sense and experiments
- stud...
AP Psychology Unit 1 & 2 Review Questions
with 100% Verified Correct Answers
Socrates and Plato - Correct Answer - the mind is separate from the body
- knowledge is innate
- derived principles by logic
Francis Bacon
John Locke - Correct Answer - relied on common sense and experiments
- studied the brain and its failings, how it always looks for patterns
- tabula rasa - the mind at birth is a blank slate
- empiricism - the view that knowledge originates in experience and so science should rely on
observation and experimentation
William James - Correct Answer - founder of functionalism
- wanted to consider the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings
- why do we smell, taste, hear - what function do they serve?
- gave witty lectures on psychology at Harvard
wrote the first psychology textbook
Wilhelm Wundt - Correct Answer - studied peoples reaction time to sounds
- measured 'atoms of the mind'- the fastest and simplest mental processes
- said to have had the first psychological laboratory
functionalism - Correct Answer - a school of psychology
- focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function
- how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis - Correct Answer - developed the influential psychoanalytic theory of
personality
, humanistic psychology - Correct Answer - historically significant perspective that emphasized the
growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth
- emphasized the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential
- the importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied
behaviorist psychology - Correct Answer the view that psychology
1) should be an objective science that
2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes
- most psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)
evolutionary perspective - Correct Answer - how the natural selection of traits promoted the survival
of genes
biological perspective - Correct Answer - how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and
sensory experiences
- how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences
nature vs. nurture - Correct Answer - the relative contributions that genes and experience make to
the development of psychological traits and behaviors
cognitive neuroscience - Correct Answer - the study of brain activity linked with mental activity
psychodynamic perspective - Correct Answer - how behavior springs from unconscious drives and
conflicts
- how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior
biopsychosocial approach - Correct Answer - considers the influence of biological, psychological, and
social-cultural levels of analysis
social-cultural perspective - Correct Answer - how behavior and thinking vary across situations and
cultures
- how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking
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