People
Who rivaled with Wilhelm Wundt and started functionalism, also writing one of the most influential textbooks?
William James
Who took Wundt's ideas of introspection and developed them into the formal study of structuralism?
Edward Titchener
Alvin has trouble with memory due to his abnormally small hippocampus. This is most likely the _____________ approach.
biological
The amount of students who wear sweatshirts increase as the temperature decreases. What type of correlation is this?
negative.
In a study on chair comfy-ness and test scores, what is the independent variable?
Chair comfy-ness
Who is the father of psychology who proposed introspection, which eventually led to structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
Bonus: who is the father of American Psychology? Who established structuralism?
What is the historic philosophy that explores how mental and behavioral processes function to enable organism to adapt and survive?
functionalism
Adam choose to marry Cindy because her wide hips indicate she will bear healthy children. Which perspective is Adam using?
evolutionary
If a skew is positive, what is the order of the mean, median, and mode in the distribution from left to right?
mode, median, mean
Which of the following coefficient correlations express the strongest relationship between two variables? -.91, -.71, -.32, +.8, +.908
-.91
Who is the philosopher who speculated that brain functions can be mapped to different locations on the brain, and incisions are the way to heal ailments?
Franz Joseph Gall
What is the name of John Locke's philosophy of knowledge being written on the mind like a blank state?
Tabula Rasa
Ms. Morris believes that students are motivated to act out in class by their unmet needs in esteem and belonging. Which perspective is she using?
humanistic
What is the difference between random assignment and random sampling?
random assignment: randomly assigning participants to treatment or non treatment group
random sampling: everyone in the population has an equal chance of being in the study.
What are 3 things that make an experiment stronger?
High validity, repeatable, no confounding variables, normal SD, strong independent and dependent variable, operationally defined, statistical significance
Sigmund Freud
Who defined psychology as a hierarchy of needs that one must progress through one by one to reach self-actualization?
Abraham Maslow
Tina wears skirts and dresses because she is unknowingly affected by her father leaving her mother for a woman who preferred skirts. Which perspective is at play?
psychodynamic
Which ethical principle describes a researcher's obligation to tell a participant about an experiment before they agree to participate?
Informed consent
What type of validity describes how well a variable appears at first glance?
Face Validity
Who was denied her Ph.D. but became the first female president of the APA?
What is the difference between monism and dualism?
Mind and body as one = monism
Mind and body as two = dualism
Bonus: who created each of these ideas?
The Smiths trained their dog not to leave their yard by using an invisible fence that delivers low level shocks if the dog passes it. Which perspective describes how the dog learns to stay in the yard?
Behavioral
The scores for the Unit 1 AP Psychology exam were normally distributed. The mean is 85 and the standard deviation is 10. What percentage of students scored between 75 and 95?
68%
What type of bias describes how a researcher looks back and thinks they should have known how the results would turn out?
Hindsight bias