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AP Psychology Exam Review Q&A 2024Psychology - The science of behavior and mental processes
Positive Psychology - A field of research that focuses on people's positive
experiences and characteristics, such as happiness, optimism, and resilience.
Biological Psychologists - Psychologists who analyze the biological factors
influencing behavior and mental processes.
Developmental Psychologists - Psychologists who seek to understand, describe,
and explore how behavior and mental processes change over a lifetime.
Cognitive Psychologists - Psychologists who study the mental processes underlying
judgment, decision making, problem solving, imagining, and other aspects of
human thought or cognition. Also called experimental psychologists.
Clinical And Counseling Psychologists - Psychologists who seek to assess,
understand, and change abnormal behavior.
Educational Psychologists - Psychologists who study methods by which instructors
teach and students learn and who apply their results to improving those methods
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School Psychologists - Psychologists who test IQ's, diagnose students' academic
problems, and set up programs to improve students' achievement
Forensic Psychologists - Psychologists who assist in jury selection, evaluate
defendants mental competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving
psychology and the law.
Psychodynamic Approach - A view developed by Freud that emphasizes the
interplay of unconscious mental processes in determining human thought,
feelings, and behavior.
Behavioral Approach - An approach to psychology emphasizing that human
behavior is determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from
rewards and punishments.
Critical Thinking - The process of assessing claims and making judgments on the
basis of well-supported evidence.
Hypothesis - In scientific research, a prediction stated as a specific, testable
proposition about a phenomenon.
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Variable - A factor or characteristic that is manipulated or measured in research
Theory - An integrated set of propositions that can be used to account for, predict,
and even suggest ways of controlling certain phenomena
Naturalistic Observation - The process of watching without interfering as a
phenomenon occurs in the natural environment.
Case Study - A research method involving the intensive examination of some
phenomenon in a particular individual, group, or situation.
Survey - A research method that involves giving people questionnaires or special
interviews designed to obtain descriptions of their attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and
intentions.
Control Group - In an experiment, the group that receives no treatment or
provides some other baseline against which to compare the performance or
response of the experimental group.
Independent Variable - The variable manipulated by the researcher in an
experiment.
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