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AP Psychology Test
First Unit of AP Psychology- History Of Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The use of psychological research to solve a problem | Applied Psychology |
| The use of psychological results to contribute to psychology | Basic Psychology |
| School that studies observable and measurable behavior | Behaviorism |
| Prejudice against a certain subject of study | Bias |
| Detailed description of individual | Case study |
| School of psychology devoted to the study of mental process in the broadest sense | Cognitive Psychology |
| The study of how individuals are affected based on diversity within their environment and their culture | Cultural/Diversity Perspective |
| how individuals use perceptual abilities to function in environment | Functionalism |
| School of psychology that studies how people perceive and experience objects as a whole | Gestalt Psychology |
| School of psychology that emphasizes nonverbal experience and altered states of consciousness as a means of realizing one’s full potential | Humanistic Psychology |
| Educated expected results | Hypothesis |
| Entire group identified in hypothesis | Population |
| - School of psychology that studies the psychological factors that interact within an individual, often outside of conscious awareness | Psycho-dynamic Psychology |
| – Consistency of a measure. A test is considered reliable if we get same results repeatedly | Reliability |
| a smaller group within the population that is tested, representing the larger population | Sample |
| School of Psychology that stresses basic units of experience and the combinations in which they occur | Structuralism |
| Administer questions to subjects & gather responses | Survey |
| An accepted and tested explanation for something | Theory |
| the extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure. It is vital for a test to be valid in order for the results to be accurately applied and interpreted | Validity |
| A characteristic in an experiment | Variable |
| the study of human behavior and mental processes | Psychology |
| Perspectives of Psychology | Biological, Evolutionary, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive, Humanistic, & Social-Cultural |
| Said that mind and body affects each other | Rene Descartes |
| Developed Blank Slate Theory | John Locke |
| Developed Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| "Father of Psychology" First psychology lab | Wilhelm Wundt |
| Founder of Functionalism | William James |
| Psycho-analytical theory | Sigmund Freud |
| Founder of Behaviorism | John B. Watson |
| Founder of Operant Conditioning | B.F. Skinner |
| True Or False: Psychologists are medical doctors | False |
| True or False: Psychiatrists cannot do medical procedures | False |
| Steps of Scientific Method | Ask Question Background research Hypothesis Create Plan Conduct Experiment Analyze results Draw conclusion |
| Group introduced to independent variable | Experimental group |
| Group not introduced to independent variable | Control group |
| Characteristic not changed in experiment | Dependent variable |
| Characteristic changed in experiment | independent variable |
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