AP psych quiz

Psychology is the science of…

behavior and mental processes

Psychology seeks to answer..

How and why we think, feel, and act as we do

high stress =…

poor health

Facial expressions and body posture affect…

our mood

Is there a relationship between parental behaviors and children’s sexual orientation?

No.

The rat…

is always right

The scientific attitude (critical thinking) involves…

Curiosity, humility, skepticism

How is psychology a science?

Psychology’s findings are the result of a scientific approach

What are the 3 key elements of the scientific attitude, and how do they support scientific inquiry?

The scientific attitude equips us to be curious, skeptical, and humble in scrutinizing competing ideas or our own observations.

How does critical thinking feed a scientific attitude l, and smarter thinking for everyday life?

Critical outs ideas to the test by examining assumptions, appeasing the source, discerning hidden biases, evaluating evidence, and assessing conclusions

Scientific attitude: Curiosity

Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed?

Scientific attitude: Skepticism

What do you mean? How do you know? Doesn’t doubt everything, but not gullible.

Scientific attitude: Humility

Unexpected. Explore further.

Hindsight bias (I knew it all along phenomen)

Definition: The common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were

Explanation: Hindsight bias is easy to demonstrate by giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and giving the other half an opposite result. Tell the first group, “Psychologists have found that separation weakens romantic attraction. Ask why it may be true. Tell the opposite to a second group. Both will seem like common sense to both groups. But errors in their recollection process why we need psychological research l