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AP Psychology Scientific Foundations of Psychology
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Quentin has been monitoring what his siblings do when his parents yell at them, and how their actions change. His approach is most in line with what school of psychological thought?
Behavioral
Cognitive
Psychoanalytical
Humanistic
Structuralist
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Theoretically today many people pull from multiple fields in order to support their comprehensive view of how to treat a client. Which view would probably be used to do this?
Structuralist
Functionalist
Biopsychosocial
Psychoanalytical
Developmental
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Justine is at a lego factory watching the plastic being poured into the molds, and the pieces being stamped out for each character. This however is not as interesting as when she remembers playing with her completed legos. This experience most likely aligns with which school of psychological thought?
Humanistic
Gestalt
Developmental
Psychodynamic
Functionalism
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Louisa has been helping clients all day in the facility that she works at. Many clients stay there for months, and sometimes years before they are well enough to leave. She is most likely a:
clinical psychologist.
industrial-organizational psychologist.
psychiatrist.
psychometrician
counseling psychologist
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George sees his clients for a brief period of time, and mostly concentrates his questions on how their medication is working so he can find out if he should issue them a new scrip or change the milligram dosage he has prescribed. George is most likely a:
personality psychologist
clinical psychologist
psychometrician
psychiatrist
industrial-organizational psychologist
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Julian believes that everything we do was determined with our personality that we were born with. Thanos believes that we are the sum product of our life experiences. The basic conflict that sums the difference between these two perspectives is:
nature vs. nurture
freedom vs. determinism
dualism vs. monism
structuralism vs. functionalism
simplicity vs. difficulty
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Brielle is working to increase the productivity of employees during the holiday season at the retail store she is employed by. She is most likely what type of psychologist?
counseling
clinical
psychoanalytic
humanistic
industrial-organizational
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Tristan tries to understand his world through his senses only, and explains how something makes him feel rather than attempting to record data. He most likely would agree with what school of thought?
functionalism
humanistic
structuralism
psychodynamic
evolutionary
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This psychological researcher believed that the scientific method should be used to study sensation and perception. He created the first psychological laboratory so that he was able to continue his studies. Who was he:
Wilhelm Wundt
William James
Sigmund Freud
B.F. Skinner
John B. Watson
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This psychologist was the first woman to become the President of the APA:
Dorothea Dix
Mary Calkins
Margaret Washburn
Rebecca James
Francis Skinner
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Which of the following studies would John Watson have been likely to support?
attempting to retrain how a person thinks about when they are afriad
attempting to control a child's behavior with candy and other rewards and punishments
attempting to measure if environment can change the innate success of genetic components of a species
attempting to help a person achieve self actualization through providing them with opportunities to improve themselves.
attempting to see if childhood trauma really does shape all later behavior in life
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Which of the following correctly describes how to randomly select a representative high school population?
picking every fifth person with a high gpa from schools that are located in southern states
selecting every other person from every student in multiple high schools around the country
selecting 50 people from every school in the country with staff input
selecting 5 students from every middle, elementary and high school through drawing straws
selecting six students and staff from a lottery system at schools nationwide
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Which scatterplot shows the strongest negative relationship between the variables?