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AP
Psychology Homework
History of Psychology
Code: ______________________
Fill
in the blank
1. The principle that inherited traits that contribute to
reproduction and survival will be most likely to be passed on to
succeeding generations. ______________ ______________.
2. The psychological perspective that focuses on how the body
and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.
_________________________
3. The psychological perspective that focuses on how we encode,
process, store, and retrieve information. _________________________
psychology
4. The type of scientific research that aims to solve practical
problems. ______________ research
5. The type of research that is "pure science". It is only
aimed at increasing the scientific knowledge base.
____________________ research.
6. The early
school of psychology that used "introspection" to study the elemental
components of the human mind.
Wundt and Titchner were proponents of this school.
________________________.
7. The early
school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes
help organisms adapt,
survive, and flourish. William James headed this group.
______________________.
8. The school
of psychology that has the motto: "The whole is greater than the sum of
its parts", and focuses much
of its work in the field of perception. _____________________
psychology
9. The psychological perspective that focuses on how behavior
and thinking vary across situations and cultures.
_______________-_______________ psychology.
10. The psychological perspective that focuses
on "learning", but only
in terms of how observable behavior is
influenced by contingencies in the environment. ______________________________
11. The long-standing controversy over the relative contributions
that genes and experience make to the development of psychological
traits and behaviors. ___________________ vs __________________.
12. The science of behavior and mental processes.
________________________.
13 The psychological perspective that focuses on how our genes, and
our environment influence individual differences. __________________
_________________
14. The branch of medicine that deals with psychological disorders.
It is practiced by physicians who sometimes provide
medical treatments
as well as psychological therapy. _______________________
15. The branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people
with psychological problems.
_____________________ psychology
16. The psychological perspective that focuses on how nature selects
traits that promote the perpetuation of one's genes.
_______________________ psychology
17. The psychological approach that examines how behavior springs from
unconscious drives and conflicts. ________________________ theory
18.
The “Big Issue” in psychology that asks, “do our individual traits
persist as we age or are our personality traits fairly
unstable over
time”. __________________ vs _______________
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