AP Psychology Unit 1 Review UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
sq3r - CORRECT Answer survey, question, read, rehearse, review
example of biological perspective - CORRECT Answer explaining how heredity and experience
influences differences in temperament; brain circuits that cause us to be red in the face
empiricism - CORRECT Answer the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science
should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
structuralism - CORRECT Answer an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore
the structural elements of the human mind (Titchener)
functionalism - CORRECT 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)
experimental psychology - CORRECT Answer the study of behavior and thinking using the
experimental method
behaviorism - CORRECT 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)
humanistic psychology - CORRECT Answer historically significant perspective that emphasized
the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth (Maslow,
Rogers)
cognitive neuroscience - CORRECT Answer the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked
with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
sq3r - CORRECT Answer survey, question, read, rehearse, review
example of biological perspective - CORRECT Answer explaining how heredity and experience
influences differences in temperament; brain circuits that cause us to be red in the face
empiricism - CORRECT Answer the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science
should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
structuralism - CORRECT Answer an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore
the structural elements of the human mind (Titchener)
functionalism - CORRECT 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)
experimental psychology - CORRECT Answer the study of behavior and thinking using the
experimental method
behaviorism - CORRECT 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)
humanistic psychology - CORRECT Answer historically significant perspective that emphasized
the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth (Maslow,
Rogers)
cognitive neuroscience - CORRECT Answer the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked
with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)
