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AP Psy Exam Questions with Answers
1. Psychology the study of behavior and mental
process- es
2. How did psychology as a
study of behavior and
mental processes develop?
The roots of psychology can be
traced back to the philosophy of
Empiricism:
3. Structuralism an early school of psychology that
used in- trospection to explore the
elemental struc- ture of the human
mind
4. Functionalism A school of psychology that focused
on how our mental and behavioral
processes function - how they
enable us to adapt, survive, and
flourish.
5. Psychoanalysis Freud's theory of personality that
attributes thoughts and actions to
unconscious mo- tives and conflicts;
the techniques used in treating
psychological disorders by seek- ing
to expose and interpret unconscious
tensions
6. Behaviorism A theoretical orientation based on
the premise that scientific
psychology should study only
observable behavior
7. Gestalt an organized whole that is
perceived as more than the sum
of its parts.
8. Introspection Examining or observing one's own
mental processes
9. Who made structuralism? Wundt & Titchener
