Unit One- Ap Pyschology

Question 1

Why was Wilhelm Wundt important?

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all of the above

Question 2

perspective that views behavior and personality as the product of psychological characteristics

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trait view

Question 3

people's tendency upon hearing about research findings to think that they knew it all along

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hindsight bias

Question 4

What perspective explains human thought and behavior in terms of conditioning?

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Behavioral

Question 5

Who is responsable for the Evolutionary Perspective?

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Darwanian

Question 6

What is the principal of Gestalt Psychology?

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all of the above

Question 7

Psychoanalytic Perspective holds whose beliefs?

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Freud’s

Question 8

theory that states a part of our mind over which we do not have conscious control determines

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psychoanalysis

Question 9

the tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs or expectations

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confirmation bias

Question 10

a number between -1 and +1 expressing the degree of relationship between two variables

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normal distribution

Question 11

Who came up with a cognitive theory that focuses on how our cognition develop in stages

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Jean Piaget

Question 12

how closely scores bunch up around the central point

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measure of variability

Question 13

averages; mean, median, and mode

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measures of central tendency

Question 14

emphasizes the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs and desires

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psycho-dynamic psychology

Question 15

anciet Greek philosopher who developed theories of sensation, perception, cognition, and ethics

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Aristotle

Question 16

Who is responsable for Psychoanalysis?

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Freud

Question 17

a study in which a representative of the population is tested or surveyed at one specific time

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cross-sectional study

Question 18

sexperiments conducted in the world; more realistic

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field experiments

Question 19

Deterministic Behaviorists beleive that

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All behaviors are caused by past conditioning

Question 20

Who set up the first psychological laboratory in 1879?

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Wundt

Question 21

What was this Stone Age method called?

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rephination

Question 22

Who published the first psychology textbook “The Principles of Psychology”?

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James

Question 23

an experimental method in which questions are asked to subjects that are not skewed or biased

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survey

Question 24

Who expanded behaviorism to include reinforcement?

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Skinner

Question 25

reflects the distribution of important variables in the larger population

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representative sample

Question 26

student of William James who pioneered he study of child development

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G. Stanley Hall

Question 27

​the way we experience the world is more than an accumulation of perceptual experiences

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Gestalt Psychology

Question 28

a summary chart, showing how frequently each of the various scores in a set of data occurs

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frequency distribution

Question 29

research that measures what the researcher set out to measure; accurate

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valid

Question 30

Gestalt psychologist who studied insight learning, a form of learning marked by sudden "Aha!"

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Kohler

Question 31

the pushing down into the unconscious of the feelings that our conscious mind can’t handle

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repression

Question 32

perspective that looks at how our thoughts and behaviors emphasize the influence of culture

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sociocultural perspective

Question 33

What is Empiricism?

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The view that knowledge originates in experience

Question 34

What year was Sigmund Freud born?

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1856

Question 35

Examines human thoughts in terms of interpreting, processing, and remember environmental events

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Cognitive

Question 36

Who are the figures of Humanist Perspective?

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Abraham Maslow & Carl Rogers

Question 37

modern psychological perspective emphasizing that change occurs across a lifespan

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redevelopmental perspectiv

Question 38

non-experimental method; research in which subjects are observed in their natural environment

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naturalistic observation

Question 39

used if one wants to ensure that the experimental and control groups are equivalent

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group matching

Unit One- Ap Pyschology

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Unit One- Ap Pyschology

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