AP Psychology Unit 1 & 2 Review
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Socrates and Plato - CORRECT Answer - the mind is separate from the body
- knowledge is innate
- derived principles by logic
Francis Bacon
John Locke - CORRECT Answer - relied on common sense and experiments
- studied the brain and its failings, how it always looks for patterns
- tabula rasa - the mind at birth is a blank slate
- empiricism - the view that knowledge originates in experience and so science should rely on observation
and experimentation
William James - CORRECT Answer - founder of functionalism
- wanted to consider the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings
- why do we smell, taste, hear - what function do they serve?
- gave witty lectures on psychology at Harvard
wrote the first psychology textbook
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT Answer - studied peoples reaction time to sounds
- measured 'atoms of the mind'- the fastest and simplest mental processes
- said to have had the first psychological laboratory
functionalism - CORRECT Answer - a school of psychology
- focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function
, - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis - CORRECT Answer - developed the influential psychoanalytic
theory of personality
humanistic psychology - CORRECT Answer - historically significant perspective that emphasized
the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth
- emphasized the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential
- the importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied
behaviorist psychology - CORRECT Answer the view that psychology
1) should be an objective science that
2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes
- most psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)
evolutionary perspective - CORRECT Answer - how the natural selection of traits promoted the
survival of genes
biological perspective - CORRECT Answer - how the body and brain enable emotions, memories,
and sensory experiences
- how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences
nature vs. nurture - CORRECT Answer - the relative contributions that genes and experience make
to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
cognitive neuroscience - CORRECT Answer - the study of brain activity linked with mental
activity
psychodynamic perspective - CORRECT Answer - how behavior springs from unconscious drives
and conflicts
- how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Socrates and Plato - CORRECT Answer - the mind is separate from the body
- knowledge is innate
- derived principles by logic
Francis Bacon
John Locke - CORRECT Answer - relied on common sense and experiments
- studied the brain and its failings, how it always looks for patterns
- tabula rasa - the mind at birth is a blank slate
- empiricism - the view that knowledge originates in experience and so science should rely on observation
and experimentation
William James - CORRECT Answer - founder of functionalism
- wanted to consider the evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings
- why do we smell, taste, hear - what function do they serve?
- gave witty lectures on psychology at Harvard
wrote the first psychology textbook
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT Answer - studied peoples reaction time to sounds
- measured 'atoms of the mind'- the fastest and simplest mental processes
- said to have had the first psychological laboratory
functionalism - CORRECT Answer - a school of psychology
- focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function
, - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis - CORRECT Answer - developed the influential psychoanalytic
theory of personality
humanistic psychology - CORRECT Answer - historically significant perspective that emphasized
the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth
- emphasized the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential
- the importance of having our needs for love and acceptance satisfied
behaviorist psychology - CORRECT Answer the view that psychology
1) should be an objective science that
2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes
- most psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)
evolutionary perspective - CORRECT Answer - how the natural selection of traits promoted the
survival of genes
biological perspective - CORRECT Answer - how the body and brain enable emotions, memories,
and sensory experiences
- how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences
nature vs. nurture - CORRECT Answer - the relative contributions that genes and experience make
to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
cognitive neuroscience - CORRECT Answer - the study of brain activity linked with mental
activity
psychodynamic perspective - CORRECT Answer - how behavior springs from unconscious drives
and conflicts
- how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior
