Myers AP Psychology Review Unit 1 Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Four Questions early thinkers wondered - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--How do our
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minds work |
-How do our bodies relate to our minds
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-How much of what we know comes built in
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-How much is aquired through experience
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Socrates and Plato - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Said the mind is seperable from the
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body and continues after the body dies, and that knowledge is innate (born
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within us) |
Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Said that knowledge is not preexisting, but
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grows from experiences stored in our memories
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Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Said that "Animal Spirits" travel through
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nerves to muscles provoking movement and memories are formed when these
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spirits open pores in the brain
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John Locke - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-English philosopher; believed that the human
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|mind is a blank slate at birth, or Tabula Rasa; founded empiricism
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, Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-view that knowledge originates in
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experiences, and that science should therefore rely on observation and
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experimentaion; founded by John Locke | | | |
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founded the 1st psychology lab in
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Leipzig, Germany
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Edward Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded structuralism that dealt with
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introspection
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-school of psychology that aims to discover
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the structural elements of the mind through introspection; founded by Edward
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Titchener
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-requires smart, verbal people; results vary
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from person to person; and requires people who know how they feel and can
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express it through words
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William James - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded functionalism
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Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-school of psychology that focuses on the
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evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings and how our mental and
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behavioral processes enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
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Mary Whiton Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-First female president of the
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American Psychological Association
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Questions With Correct Answers
Four Questions early thinkers wondered - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--How do our
| | | | | | | | | |
minds work |
-How do our bodies relate to our minds
| | | | | | |
-How much of what we know comes built in
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-How much is aquired through experience
| | | | |
Socrates and Plato - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Said the mind is seperable from the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
body and continues after the body dies, and that knowledge is innate (born
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
within us) |
Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Said that knowledge is not preexisting, but
| | | | | | | | | |
grows from experiences stored in our memories
| | | | | |
Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Said that "Animal Spirits" travel through
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nerves to muscles provoking movement and memories are formed when these
| | | | | | | | | | |
spirits open pores in the brain
| | | | |
John Locke - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-English philosopher; believed that the human
| | | | | | | | |
|mind is a blank slate at birth, or Tabula Rasa; founded empiricism
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, Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-view that knowledge originates in
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experiences, and that science should therefore rely on observation and
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experimentaion; founded by John Locke | | | |
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founded the 1st psychology lab in
| | | | | | | | | |
Leipzig, Germany
|
Edward Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded structuralism that dealt with
| | | | | | | | |
introspection
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-school of psychology that aims to discover
| | | | | | | | | |
the structural elements of the mind through introspection; founded by Edward
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Titchener
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-requires smart, verbal people; results vary
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from person to person; and requires people who know how they feel and can
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express it through words
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William James - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded functionalism
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Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-school of psychology that focuses on the
| | | | | | | | | |
evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings and how our mental and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
behavioral processes enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
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Mary Whiton Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-First female president of the
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American Psychological Association
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