AP Psych Semester Review

The Psychologist who would be least likely to develop tools for learning in the classroom would be

• experimental
• developmental
• school
• educational

Which professional specialty focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of people with psychological disorders?

• personality psychology
• biological psychology
• clinical psychology
• developmental psychology

The biological perspective in psychology would most likely emphasize that behavior is influenced by

• environmental circumstances
• memory processe
• unconscious conflicts
• blood chemistry

Professor Reed attempts to assess the relative contributions of heredity and home environment on children's susceptibility to depression. Her research best illustrates the concerns of the ____ approach

• psychodynamic
• cognitive
• humanistic
• biopsychosocial

Who had the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany?

• William James
• Edward Titchner
• Wilhelm Wundt
• G. Stanley Hall

Dr. Lipka is involved in an applied research study of customer satisfaction with a newly developed line of facial cosmetics and other beauty aids. Dr. Lipka is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist.

• Clinical
• Industrial-Organizational 
• Developmental 
• Social

Behaviorists dismissed the value of

• neuroscience
• reinforcement
• Introspection
• science

Who would have been most likely to ignore mental processes and to define psychology as “the scientific study of observable behavior”?

• Edward Titchner
• Jean Piaget
• John B. Watson
• William James

Which philosopher is most well known for theorizing that the mind at birth is tabula rasa or a “blank slate”?

• Rene Descarte
• John Locke
• George Berkeley
• Aristotle

Which of the following psychologists most clearly rejected the value of introspection?

• Wilhelm Wundt
• Edward Titchner
• John B. Watson
• Sigmund Freud