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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