AP Psych Unit 1.1

The humanistic approach to psychology emphasizes the importance of

• childhood experiences

• biological predispositions

• maladaptive thoughts

• free will and conscious awareness

• cultural experiences

Psychologists who emphasize the importance of repressed memories and childhood experiences subscribe to which of the following perspectives?

• cognitive

• behavioral

• psychoanalytic

• social cultural

• medical/biological

What is the difference between cognitive psychology and behavioral psychology?

• Behavioral psychology deals with reinforcement and punishment, while cognitive psychology deals with informative processing.

• Cognitive psychology focuses only on observable behavior, while behavioral psychology focuses on internal processes.

• Both focus on observable behavior; there is no difference

• Cognitive psychology focuses only on the ego, while behavioral psychology focuses on the id.

• Behavioral psychology focuses on the superego, while cognitive psychology focuses on the ego.

In early psychology, Wilhelm Wundt developed a technique for doing research that involved having people describe their thoughts as they observe an object. This technique is called

• dream analysis

• mind/body analysis

• behavior analysis

• introspection

• algorithm

The question “Is intelligence more influences by heredity or experience?” deals with a big issue in psychology known as

• stability vs change

• mind body dualism

• rationality vs irrationality

• structure vs function

• nature vs nurture

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of

• the unconscious mind

• behavior and mental processes

• overt and measurable behaviors

• working to reach one's potential

• how nature selects organisms best suited for survival

Which school of thought focused on how and organism adapts to the environment?

• structuralism

• gestalt

• psychoanalysis

• behaviorism

• functionalism

Which subfield of psychology would focus on how a stroke could affect the functioning of the brain?

• cognitive psychology

• clinical psychology

• community psychology

• neuroscience psychology

• developmental psychology

The first psychological laboratory, opened in 1879 belonged to

• Charles Darwin

• Sigmund Freud

• Rene Decartes

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

In an experiment to test the effects of a new drug designed to enhance memory, the experimenter gives orange juice mixed with the drug to one group of subjects and orange juice mixed with a placebo to the other group. She then measures the memory skills of both groups by means of a memory test. In this study, the independent variable would be ____?

• the placebo

• the presence or absence of the drug in the orange juice

• the experimenter

• the participants' scores on the memory test

• the participants