AP Psych Unit 1

What important idea is missing from this definition of the field of psychology: "The study of behavior and mental processes"?

• Psychology is more than just behavior and thinking

• The study of psychology includes unconscious processes as well

• Research in psychology focuses more on the brain than on physical behavior

• Psychology specifically involves scientific study and research methods

What famous psychologist is credited with opening the first ever psychology laboratory?

• Sigmund Freud

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John Watson

• B. F. Skinner

Who is the founder of structuralism?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Abraham Maslow
• Ivan Pavlov
• B.F. Skinner

Having the patient be self-reflective (looking inward), and training them to report elements of their experience.  

• structuralism
• introspection
• functionalism
• psychometrics

This early branch in psychology hypothesized that each thought and behavior has an evolutionary purpose to help that individual survive:

• Psychoanalysis

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Introspection

First woman president of the American Psychological Association

• Sigmund Freud

• Mary Whiton Calkins

• Margret Floy Washburn

• John Watson

• Jean Piaget

According to this perspective, the unconscious mind influences everything we do.

• Biological perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Cognitive perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective

Which perspective studies learning and how rewards and punishments influence how humans and animals act (observable responses)?

• Cognitive
• Behaviorism
• Humanism
• Evolutionary

This approach to psychology believes that all behavior stems from survival of the fittest and instinctual behavior.

• Evolutionary

• Humanist

• Cognitive

• Social-Cultural

Jean Piaget found that children at a certain age consistently made mistakes on tests that older children did not make. He believed that younger children thought differently from older children. Since Piaget studied the thought processes of children, he best represents which modern perspective?

• behaviorism

• social-cultural

• psychodynamic

• cognitive