AP Psychology Scientific Foundations of Psychology

Quentin has been monitoring what his siblings do when his parents yell at them, and how their actions change. His approach is most in line with what school of psychological thought?

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Psychoanalytical

• Humanistic

• Structuralist

Theoretically today many people pull from multiple fields in order to support their comprehensive view of how to treat a client. Which view would probably be used to do this?

• Structuralist

• Functionalist

• Biopsychosocial

• Psychoanalytical

• Developmental

Justine is at a lego factory watching the plastic being poured into the molds, and the pieces being stamped out for each character. This however is not as interesting as when she remembers playing with her completed legos. This experience most likely aligns with which school of psychological thought?

• Humanistic

• Gestalt

• Developmental

• Psychodynamic

• Functionalism

Louisa has been helping clients all day in the facility that she works at. Many clients stay there for months, and sometimes years before they are well enough to leave. She is most likely a:

• clinical psychologist.

• industrial-organizational psychologist.

• psychiatrist.

• psychometrician

• counseling psychologist

George sees his clients for a brief period of time, and mostly concentrates his questions on how their medication is working so he can find out if he should issue them a new scrip or change the milligram dosage he has prescribed. George is most likely a:

• personality psychologist

• clinical psychologist

• psychometrician

• psychiatrist

• industrial-organizational psychologist

Julian believes that everything we do was determined with our personality that we were born with. Thanos believes that we are the sum product of our life experiences. The basic conflict that sums the difference between these two perspectives is:

• nature vs. nurture

• freedom vs. determinism

• dualism vs. monism

• structuralism vs. functionalism

• simplicity vs. difficulty

Brielle is working to increase the productivity of employees during the holiday season at the retail store she is employed by. She is most likely what type of psychologist?

• counseling

• clinical

• psychoanalytic

• humanistic

• industrial-organizational

Tristan tries to understand his world through his senses only, and explains how something makes him feel rather than attempting to record data. He most likely would agree with what school of thought?

• functionalism

• humanistic

• structuralism

• psychodynamic

• evolutionary

This psychological researcher believed that the scientific method should be used to study sensation and perception. He created the first psychological laboratory so that he was able to continue his studies. Who was he:

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• John B. Watson

This psychologist was the first woman to become the President of the APA:

• Dorothea Dix

• Mary Calkins

• Margaret Washburn

• Rebecca James

• Francis Skinner