AP PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
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Psychology - ANS The Science of Behavior and Mental Processes
Socrates and Plato - ANS thought the mind and body were separate and that the mind goes
on after death. Also thought Knowledge was innate.
Aristotle - ANS student of Plato; thought knowledge was obtained through experiences
Rene Descartes - ANS thought the mind and body were separate
John Locke - ANS thought a mind at birth was a blank slate. helped form empiricism
empiricism - ANS knowledge is from experiences and therefor science should only rely on
observations and experiments.
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS father of Psychology
Edward Titchner - ANS introduced structuralism which relied on introspection
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,introspection - ANS looking inward. An unreliable idea as the answers given differed from
person to person
William James - ANS functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin
Mary Whiton Calkin - ANS 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 - ANS first woman to get a Ph.D in Psychology and second woman
president of the APA
experimental Psychologists - ANS explore with experiments
behaviorists - ANS rely on observation
humanistic psychology - ANS Carl Rogers; having our needs satisfied
cognitive Neuroscience - ANS Brain activity in link to Mental activity
Biggest debate in Psychology - ANS Nature V.S. Nurture
Natural Selection - ANS Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits promoting survival will be
carried on to the next generation. Survival of the fittest
levels of analysis - ANS the differing complementary views which show different reasons as
for why something might occur
biopsychosocial approach - ANS combines biological, psychological and social-cultural
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,biological psychology - ANS studies the links between biological and psychological
evolutionary psychology - ANS uses natural selection to see why we have certain traits
Psychodynamic psychology - ANS unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior
behavioral psychology - ANS rely on observable behavior
cognitive psychology - ANS focuses on mental activity (thinking, knowing, remembering,
communicating) to explain behavior
social-cultural psychology - ANS the study of how culture effects behavior and thinking
psychometrics - ANS the study of the measurement of human ability
basic research - ANS study that aims to increase the knowledge base
developmental psychology - ANS the study of how we change throughout our life span
educational psychology - ANS how psychological processes effect learning and teaching
personality psychology - ANS the study of an individuals way of acting, feelings and thinking
social psychology - ANS how people influence each other
applied research - ANS study that aims to solve problems
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, Industrial-organizational psychology - ANS the application of psychological concepts to
improve human behavior in workplaces
hindsight bias - ANS the 'I knew it all along' phenomenon. the tendency to believe, after
knowing the answer, that you would have gotten it before
operational definition - ANS the definition of an object according to how it is used in a certain
situation
case study - ANS observation of one single patient; CANNOT BE GENERALIZED
survey - ANS to obtain self reported behaviors of a group
population - ANS everyone in the group being studied
random sample - ANS a way to get a representative sample because everyone gets an even
chance of being picked
naturalistic observation - ANS observing behavior in natural environment
correlation - ANS measure of how to factors relate to eachother
correlation coefficient - ANS the number that represents the relationship of the factors (-1 to
1)
illusory correlation - ANS the thought that a relationship is there when it is not
random assignment - ANS randomly assigning participants IN AN EXPERIMENT to control and
experimental groups
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Psychology - ANS The Science of Behavior and Mental Processes
Socrates and Plato - ANS thought the mind and body were separate and that the mind goes
on after death. Also thought Knowledge was innate.
Aristotle - ANS student of Plato; thought knowledge was obtained through experiences
Rene Descartes - ANS thought the mind and body were separate
John Locke - ANS thought a mind at birth was a blank slate. helped form empiricism
empiricism - ANS knowledge is from experiences and therefor science should only rely on
observations and experiments.
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS father of Psychology
Edward Titchner - ANS introduced structuralism which relied on introspection
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,introspection - ANS looking inward. An unreliable idea as the answers given differed from
person to person
William James - ANS functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin
Mary Whiton Calkin - ANS 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 - ANS first woman to get a Ph.D in Psychology and second woman
president of the APA
experimental Psychologists - ANS explore with experiments
behaviorists - ANS rely on observation
humanistic psychology - ANS Carl Rogers; having our needs satisfied
cognitive Neuroscience - ANS Brain activity in link to Mental activity
Biggest debate in Psychology - ANS Nature V.S. Nurture
Natural Selection - ANS Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits promoting survival will be
carried on to the next generation. Survival of the fittest
levels of analysis - ANS the differing complementary views which show different reasons as
for why something might occur
biopsychosocial approach - ANS combines biological, psychological and social-cultural
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,biological psychology - ANS studies the links between biological and psychological
evolutionary psychology - ANS uses natural selection to see why we have certain traits
Psychodynamic psychology - ANS unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior
behavioral psychology - ANS rely on observable behavior
cognitive psychology - ANS focuses on mental activity (thinking, knowing, remembering,
communicating) to explain behavior
social-cultural psychology - ANS the study of how culture effects behavior and thinking
psychometrics - ANS the study of the measurement of human ability
basic research - ANS study that aims to increase the knowledge base
developmental psychology - ANS the study of how we change throughout our life span
educational psychology - ANS how psychological processes effect learning and teaching
personality psychology - ANS the study of an individuals way of acting, feelings and thinking
social psychology - ANS how people influence each other
applied research - ANS study that aims to solve problems
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, Industrial-organizational psychology - ANS the application of psychological concepts to
improve human behavior in workplaces
hindsight bias - ANS the 'I knew it all along' phenomenon. the tendency to believe, after
knowing the answer, that you would have gotten it before
operational definition - ANS the definition of an object according to how it is used in a certain
situation
case study - ANS observation of one single patient; CANNOT BE GENERALIZED
survey - ANS to obtain self reported behaviors of a group
population - ANS everyone in the group being studied
random sample - ANS a way to get a representative sample because everyone gets an even
chance of being picked
naturalistic observation - ANS observing behavior in natural environment
correlation - ANS measure of how to factors relate to eachother
correlation coefficient - ANS the number that represents the relationship of the factors (-1 to
1)
illusory correlation - ANS the thought that a relationship is there when it is not
random assignment - ANS randomly assigning participants IN AN EXPERIMENT to control and
experimental groups
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