AP Psychology Final Exam
AP Psychology Final Exam (units 1-8B
and 11 for Grossman's final exam)
Containing 508 Terms with Certified
Definitions 2024-2025
Psychology - Answer: The Science of Behavior and Mental Processes
Socrates and Plato - Answer: thought the mind and body were separate and that
the mind goes on after death. Also thought Knowledge was innate.
, AP Psychology Final Exam
Aristotle - Answer: student of Plato; thought knowledge was obtained through
experiences
Rene Descartes - Answer: thought the mind and body were separate
John Locke - Answer: thought a mind at birth was a blank slate. helped form
empiricism
empiricism - Answer: knowledge is from experiences and therefor science should
only rely on observations and experiments.
Wilhelm Wundt - Answer: father of Psychology
Edward Titchner - Answer: introduced structuralism which relied on introspection
introspection - Answer: looking inward. An unreliable idea as the answers given
differed from person to person
William James - Answer: functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin
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)
, AP Psychology Final Exam
Margaret Floy Washburn - Answer: first woman to get a Ph.D in Psychology and
second woman president of the APA
experimental Psychologists - Answer: explore with experiments
behaviorists - Answer: rely on observation
humanistic psychology - Answer: Carl Rogers; having our needs satisfied
cognitive Neuroscience - Answer: Brain activity in link to Mental activity
Biggest debate in Psychology - Answer: Nature V.S. Nurture
Natural Selection - Answer: Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits promoting
survival will be carried on to the next generation. Survival of the fittest
levels of analysis - Answer: the differing complementary views which show
different reasons as for why something might occur
biopsychosocial approach - Answer: combines biological, psychological and social-
cultural
biological psychology - Answer: studies the links between biological and
psychological
, AP Psychology Final Exam
evolutionary psychology - Answer: uses natural selection to see why we have
certain traits
Psychodynamic psychology - Answer: unconscious drives and conflicts influence
behavior
behavioral psychology - Answer: rely on observable behavior
cognitive psychology - Answer: focuses on mental activity (thinking, knowing,
remembering, communicating) to explain behavior
social-cultural psychology - Answer: the study of how culture effects behavior and
thinking
psychometrics - Answer: the study of the measurement of human ability
basic research - Answer: study that aims to increase the knowledge base
developmental psychology - Answer: the study of how we change throughout our
life span
educational psychology - Answer: how psychological processes effect learning and
teaching
AP Psychology Final Exam (units 1-8B
and 11 for Grossman's final exam)
Containing 508 Terms with Certified
Definitions 2024-2025
Psychology - Answer: The Science of Behavior and Mental Processes
Socrates and Plato - Answer: thought the mind and body were separate and that
the mind goes on after death. Also thought Knowledge was innate.
, AP Psychology Final Exam
Aristotle - Answer: student of Plato; thought knowledge was obtained through
experiences
Rene Descartes - Answer: thought the mind and body were separate
John Locke - Answer: thought a mind at birth was a blank slate. helped form
empiricism
empiricism - Answer: knowledge is from experiences and therefor science should
only rely on observations and experiments.
Wilhelm Wundt - Answer: father of Psychology
Edward Titchner - Answer: introduced structuralism which relied on introspection
introspection - Answer: looking inward. An unreliable idea as the answers given
differed from person to person
William James - Answer: functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin
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)
, AP Psychology Final Exam
Margaret Floy Washburn - Answer: first woman to get a Ph.D in Psychology and
second woman president of the APA
experimental Psychologists - Answer: explore with experiments
behaviorists - Answer: rely on observation
humanistic psychology - Answer: Carl Rogers; having our needs satisfied
cognitive Neuroscience - Answer: Brain activity in link to Mental activity
Biggest debate in Psychology - Answer: Nature V.S. Nurture
Natural Selection - Answer: Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits promoting
survival will be carried on to the next generation. Survival of the fittest
levels of analysis - Answer: the differing complementary views which show
different reasons as for why something might occur
biopsychosocial approach - Answer: combines biological, psychological and social-
cultural
biological psychology - Answer: studies the links between biological and
psychological
, AP Psychology Final Exam
evolutionary psychology - Answer: uses natural selection to see why we have
certain traits
Psychodynamic psychology - Answer: unconscious drives and conflicts influence
behavior
behavioral psychology - Answer: rely on observable behavior
cognitive psychology - Answer: focuses on mental activity (thinking, knowing,
remembering, communicating) to explain behavior
social-cultural psychology - Answer: the study of how culture effects behavior and
thinking
psychometrics - Answer: the study of the measurement of human ability
basic research - Answer: study that aims to increase the knowledge base
developmental psychology - Answer: the study of how we change throughout our
life span
educational psychology - Answer: how psychological processes effect learning and
teaching
