AP PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Socrates and Plato
Answer:
thought the mind and body were separate and that the mind goes on after death.
Also thought Knowledge was innate.
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empiricism
Answer:
knowledge is from experiences and therefor science should only rely on
observations and experiments.
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introspection
Answer:
looking inward. An unreliable idea as the answers given differed from person to
person
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Mary Whiton Calkin
Answer:
was not allowed to get her Ph.D in Psychology but moved on to become the first
woman president of the American Psychology Association (APA)
Question:
Natural Selection
Answer:
Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits promoting survival will be carried on to the
next generation. Survival of the fittest
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the differing complementary views which show different reasons as for why
something might occur
Answer:
levels of analysis
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focuses on mental activity (thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating) to
explain behavior
Answer:
cognitive psychology
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, Industrial-organizational psychology
Answer:
the application of psychological concepts to improve human behavior in
workplaces
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hindsight bias
Answer:
the 'I knew it all along' phenomenon. the tendency to believe, after knowing the
answer, that you would have gotten it before
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random sample
Answer:
a way to get a representative sample because everyone gets an even chance of
being picked
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random assignment
Answer:
randomly assigning participants IN AN EXPERIMENT to control and experimental
groups
Question:
in an experiment neither the subject nor the researcher know which has the
placebo
Answer:
double-blind procedure
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placebo effect
Answer:
experimental results from expectation; the expected results still occur with a
substitute stimulus
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culture
Answer:
behaviors, ideas, attitudes and traditions shared by a group of people and carried
on through generations
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debriefing
Answer:
post experimental explanation
of the study and its purposes
Question:
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Socrates and Plato
Answer:
thought the mind and body were separate and that the mind goes on after death.
Also thought Knowledge was innate.
Question:
empiricism
Answer:
knowledge is from experiences and therefor science should only rely on
observations and experiments.
Question:
introspection
Answer:
looking inward. An unreliable idea as the answers given differed from person to
person
Question:
Mary Whiton Calkin
Answer:
was not allowed to get her Ph.D in Psychology but moved on to become the first
woman president of the American Psychology Association (APA)
Question:
Natural Selection
Answer:
Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits promoting survival will be carried on to the
next generation. Survival of the fittest
Question:
the differing complementary views which show different reasons as for why
something might occur
Answer:
levels of analysis
Question:
focuses on mental activity (thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating) to
explain behavior
Answer:
cognitive psychology
Question:
, Industrial-organizational psychology
Answer:
the application of psychological concepts to improve human behavior in
workplaces
Question:
hindsight bias
Answer:
the 'I knew it all along' phenomenon. the tendency to believe, after knowing the
answer, that you would have gotten it before
Question:
random sample
Answer:
a way to get a representative sample because everyone gets an even chance of
being picked
Question:
random assignment
Answer:
randomly assigning participants IN AN EXPERIMENT to control and experimental
groups
Question:
in an experiment neither the subject nor the researcher know which has the
placebo
Answer:
double-blind procedure
Question:
placebo effect
Answer:
experimental results from expectation; the expected results still occur with a
substitute stimulus
Question:
culture
Answer:
behaviors, ideas, attitudes and traditions shared by a group of people and carried
on through generations
Question:
debriefing
Answer:
post experimental explanation
of the study and its purposes
Question:
