Myers’ Psychology for AP Second Edition Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches

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Margaret Floy Washburn

________ was given the claim to psychologys first female with a Ph.

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Professor Wundt

________ was conducting an experiment regarding people hearing a sound.

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Clinical psychologists

________ can conduct research, teaching, and assessment.

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Aristotle

________ believed knowledge was not preexisting but rather grows from experience.

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Psychology

________ has helped influence modern culture because it grows knowledge.

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Developmental psychologists

________ study age related behaviors and changes.

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Neuropsychologists

________ study the structure and function of the nervous system and its relationship with behavior.

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Experimental psychologists

________ study the behavioral processes of humans and animals.

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John Locke

________ went on to write and essay arguing that the mind is a blank slate, tabula rasa, that experience writes upon.

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Humanistic psychology

________: a historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people.

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Industrial organizational psychologists

________ study the relationship between people and their work environments.

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Locke

________ rejected the idea of humans being born with knowledge and Descartes disagreed with him.

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Frenchmen René Descartes

________ agreed with Socrates and Plato.

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James

Who was a functionalist so he wanted people to explore emotions, memories, willpower, habits, etc? Answer with a single words or term.

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Psychometrics

________: the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits.

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Natural selection

________: the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

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Empiricism

________: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.

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Forensic psychologists

Applied Research Subfields: ________ use psychology for legal issues.

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Community

________ psychologists focus on the broad mental health problems in the ________.

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Rehabilitation psychologists

________ work with those who have lost function after an accident or illness.

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Social psychology

________: the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

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Levels of analysis

________: the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social- cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon.

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Educational psychologists

________ study the process of learning.

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