AP PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT) | LATEST EXAM UPDATE

AP PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT) | LATEST EXAM UPDATE




units 1-8B and 11 for Grossman's final exam
Psychology - CORECT ANSWER- The Science of Behavior and Mental
Processes


Socrates and Plato - CORECT ANSWER- thought the mind and body were
separate and that the mind goes on after death. Also thought Knowledge was
innate.


Aristotle - CORECT ANSWER- student of Plato; thought knowledge was
obtained through experiences


Rene Descartes - CORECT ANSWER- thought the mind and body were separate


John Locke - CORECT ANSWER- thought a mind at birth was a blank slate.
helped form empiricism


empiricism - CORECT ANSWER- knowledge is from experiences and therefor
science should only rely on observations and experiments.


Wilhelm Wundt - CORECT ANSWER- father of Psychology


Edward Titchner - CORECT ANSWER- introduced structuralism which relied on
introspection

,introspection - CORECT ANSWER- looking inward. An unreliable idea as the
answers given differed from person to person


William James - CORECT ANSWER- functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin


Mary Whiton Calkin - CORECT 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)


Margaret Floy Washburn - CORECT ANSWER- first woman to get a Ph.D in
Psychology and second woman president of the APA


experimental Psychologists - CORECT ANSWER- explore with experiments


behaviorists - CORECT ANSWER- rely on observation


humanistic psychology - CORECT ANSWER- Carl Rogers; having our needs
satisfied


cognitive Neuroscience - CORECT ANSWER- Brain activity in link to Mental
activity


Biggest debate in Psychology - CORECT ANSWER- Nature V.S. Nurture

,Natural Selection - CORECT 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 - CORECT ANSWER- the differing complementary views
which show different reasons as for why something might occur


biopsychosocial approach - CORECT ANSWER- combines biological,
psychological and social-cultural


biological psychology - CORECT ANSWER- studies the links between biological
and psychological


evolutionary psychology - CORECT ANSWER- uses natural selection to see why
we have certain traits


Psychodynamic psychology - CORECT ANSWER- unconscious drives and
conflicts influence behavior


behavioral psychology - CORECT ANSWER- rely on observable behavior


cognitive psychology - CORECT ANSWER- focuses on mental activity
(thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating) to explain behavior


social-cultural psychology - CORECT ANSWER- the study of how culture
effects behavior and thinking

, psychometrics - CORECT ANSWER- the study of the measurement of human
ability


basic research - CORECT ANSWER- study that aims to increase the knowledge
base


developmental psychology - CORECT ANSWER- the study of how we change
throughout our life span


educational psychology - CORECT ANSWER- how psychological processes
effect learning and teaching


personality psychology - CORECT ANSWER- the study of an individuals way of
acting, feelings and thinking


social psychology - CORECT ANSWER- how people influence each other


applied research - CORECT ANSWER- study that aims to solve problems


Industrial-organizational psychology - CORECT ANSWER- the application of
psychological concepts to improve human behavior in workplaces


hindsight bias - CORECT ANSWER- the 'I knew it all along' phenomenon. the
tendency to believe, after knowing the answer, that you would have gotten it before


operational definition - CORECT ANSWER- the definition of an object according
to how it is used in a certain situation