AP Psych Unit 1 NEW VERSION 2025/2026
WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND WELL DEFIENED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -The way an organism reacts to changes in its internal
condition or external environment.
mental processes - CORRECT ANSWER -The thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us
experiences privately but that cannot be observed directly
Sensation - CORRECT ANSWER -the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous
system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER -the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
Socrates and Plato - CORRECT ANSWER -the mind is separable from the body and
continues after the body dies. Knowledge is innate.
Nature vs. Nurture - CORRECT ANSWER -name for a controversy in which it is debated
whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior
Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER -(1596-1650) French philosopher, discovered analytical
geometry. Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to
spiritual or physical.
Francis Bacon - CORRECT ANSWER -(1561-1626) English politician, writer. Formalized the
empirical method. Novum Organum. Inductive reasoning.
, Locke - CORRECT ANSWER -English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge
is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER -an early school of psychology that used introspection to
explore the elemental structure of the human mind
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER -father of psychology
G. Stanley Hall - CORRECT ANSWER -american psychologist who established the first
psychology research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological
Association
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER -A school of psychology that focused on how our
mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and
flourish.
William James - CORRECT ANSWER -founder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Mary Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER -student under William James who should have earned
her Ph.D. from Harvard; Harvard denied her the degree she had earned, offering her a
degree from Radcliffe College, which she refused the degree; she became a memory
researcher and the American Psychological Association's (APA's) first female president in
1905
Mary Washburn - CORRECT ANSWER -First female PhD in psychology
Freudian Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -emphasized the ways our unconscious thought
processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior
WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND WELL DEFIENED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -The way an organism reacts to changes in its internal
condition or external environment.
mental processes - CORRECT ANSWER -The thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us
experiences privately but that cannot be observed directly
Sensation - CORRECT ANSWER -the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous
system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER -the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
Socrates and Plato - CORRECT ANSWER -the mind is separable from the body and
continues after the body dies. Knowledge is innate.
Nature vs. Nurture - CORRECT ANSWER -name for a controversy in which it is debated
whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior
Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER -(1596-1650) French philosopher, discovered analytical
geometry. Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to
spiritual or physical.
Francis Bacon - CORRECT ANSWER -(1561-1626) English politician, writer. Formalized the
empirical method. Novum Organum. Inductive reasoning.
, Locke - CORRECT ANSWER -English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge
is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER -an early school of psychology that used introspection to
explore the elemental structure of the human mind
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER -father of psychology
G. Stanley Hall - CORRECT ANSWER -american psychologist who established the first
psychology research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological
Association
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER -A school of psychology that focused on how our
mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and
flourish.
William James - CORRECT ANSWER -founder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Mary Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER -student under William James who should have earned
her Ph.D. from Harvard; Harvard denied her the degree she had earned, offering her a
degree from Radcliffe College, which she refused the degree; she became a memory
researcher and the American Psychological Association's (APA's) first female president in
1905
Mary Washburn - CORRECT ANSWER -First female PhD in psychology
Freudian Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -emphasized the ways our unconscious thought
processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior
