Prepare for the AP Psychology exam with these unit review practice questions. This covers all 9 units from scientific foundations to social psychology.
Q: sq3r
Answer: survey, question, read, rehearse, review
Q: example of biological perspective
Answer: explaining how heredity and experience influences differences in temperament; brain circuits that cause us to be red in the face
Q: empiricism
Answer: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
Q: structuralism
Answer: an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind (Titchener)
Q: functionalism
Answer: a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive and flourish (James)
Q: experimental psychology
Answer: the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method
Q: behaviorism
Answer: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science, overt that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)
Q: humanistic psychology
Answer: historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual’s potential for personal growth (Maslow, Rogers)
Q: cognitive neuroscience
Answer: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)
Q: psychology
Answer: the science of behavior and mental processes
Q: nature-nurture issue
Answer: the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture
Q: natural selection
Answer: the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival with most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
Q: level of analysis
Answer: the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon
Q: biopsychosocial approach
Answer: an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis
Q: biological psychology
Answer: a branch of psychology that studies the links between biological (including neuroscience and behavior genetics) and psychological processes
Q: evolutionary psychology
Answer: the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection
Q: psychodynamic psychology
Answer: a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders
Q: behavioral psychology
Answer: the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning
Q: cognitive psychology
Answer: the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicatin
Q: social-cultural psychology
Answer: the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking
Q: psychometrics
Answer: the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits
Q: basic research
Answer: pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base
Q: developmental psychology
Answer: the scientific study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
Q: educational psychology
Answer: the study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning
Q: personality psychology
Answer: the study of an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
Q: social psychology
Answer: the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
Q: applied research
Answer: scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
Q: industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology
Answer: the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces
Q: human factors psychology
Answer: the study of how people and machines interact and the design of safe and easily used machines and environments
Q: counseling psychology
Answer: a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being
Q: clinical psychology
Answer: a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders
Q: psychiatry
Answer: a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy
Q: Charles Darwin
Answer: Evolution, natural selection
Q: B.F. Skinner
Answer: Behaviorist
Q: John Watson & Rosalie Rayner
Answer: Behaviorist, “Little Albert”
Q: Sigmund Freud
Answer: Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic, Unconscious
Q: Margarent Washburn
Answer: 1st women Psychology Ph.D.
Q: Mary Whiton Calkins
Answer: 1st women President of the American Psychology Association
Q: William James
Answer: Factionalism, 1st Psychology Textbook,
Q: Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: 1st Psychology Lab, structuralism
Q: Edward Titchener
Answer: Structuralism, introspection
Q: Ivan Pavlov
Answer: Behaviorist, conditioning
Q: Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow
Answer: Humanistic
Q: SQ3R
Answer: Survey, Question, Read, Rehearse (Objectives), Review (Quizlet)