AP Psychology (Unit 1 & 2 Review)

The scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive is called

• evolutionary psychology

• the biopsychosocial effect

• humanistic psychology

• positive psychology

Father of Psychology

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Edward Titchener

• William James

• Max Wertheimer

Whether our behavior is biologically determined or is determined by the environment in which we live is part of the

• biopsychosocial approach

• nature versus nurture debate

• evolutionary conundrum

• cognitive approach

Early approach/school of thought that focused in the elements or building blocks of consciousness/mind

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Consciousness

• Imperialism

Russian psychologist who pioneered the study of classical conditioning with his study regarding dogs and food.

• Charles Darwin

• Sigmund Freud

• Ivan Pavlov

• Carl Rogers

What is a double blind procedure?

• Participants don't know which group they're in
• Researchers don't know which group the participants are in
• Neither participants nor researcher knows who is in which group
• Both researcher and participants know who is in each group

Started the first mental asylums in the U.S.

• Mary Whiton Calkins

• Dorothea Dix

• Margaret Floy Washburn

• Edward Titchener

A way to study an individual or a group is an example of ___?

• Naturalistic observation
• Case study
• Survey
• Random Sampling

Psychoanalyist who Focused on how the unconscious shapes thoughts and behavior

• Carl Rogers

• B.F. Skinner

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

The tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that you knew it all along is the definition of...

• Overconfidence
• Hindsight Bias
• Perceiving order in random events
• Critical thinking