Megan Stark and Hanna Spruill Mr. Donner AP Psychology 9 October 2012 Naturalistic Observation 1. Hypothesis: If a school age person goes to Starbucks‚ then they will order an iced drink. 2. The specific prediction that we were making is that the younger that a person is that goes to Starbucks‚ the more likely they are to get an iced drink. We both felt this would be true because many kids seem not to like coffee and young teens often enjoy the Frappuccino’s because they taste similar
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AP Psychology 5-21-13 Trent is planning to apply to college‚ but has not yet decided where he will apply. When it comes to applying to colleges‚ many factors will play a role in helping him decide. All of those factors are found in the brain. When it comes to the brain and how we think‚ there are four major things that will help him decide‚ availability heuristic‚ compliance‚ prefrontal cortex and prospective memory. Trent will be using all four of these to decide which college he will apply
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1.Absolute Threshold: the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time. 2.Accommodation: the process by which the eye’s lens changes shape to focus near or far images on the retina. 3.Acetylcholine: neurotransmitter that enables muscle action‚ learning and memory. 4.Achievement Motivation: desire for accomplishment. 5.Achievement Test: an exam designed to test what a person has earned. 6.Acoustic Encoding: encoding of sound‚ especially words. 7.Acquisition: the initial
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behavior • phony‚ unscientific psychology masquerading as the real thing (correct answer‚ your response) • the study of the psyche • Freud’s method of analyzing patients Points earned: 1 out of 1 Working in a community mental health center‚ Dr. Thatcher treats adults who suffer from severe depression. Dr. Thatcher is most likely a(n) _______ psychologist. • personality• developmental• industrial/organizational • clinical (correct answer‚ your response) • behavioralPoints earned:
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AP Psychology Summer Assignment The article I chose was called‚ “Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?”. It was about how children as young as two and three years old can suffer from depression. The main point of this article was how depression impacts a child and the people‚ like their parents‚ around them. Children suffering from depression often feel the exact same symptoms as those that an adult with depression would suffer from. They can’t feel excitement‚ they have very low self-esteem‚ they
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There are four perspectives scientists have when looking at motivation including: • Instinct theory • Drive reduction theory • External/Arousal theory • Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs • Instincts and Evolutionary Psychology • To be an instinct‚ a complex behavior must have a fixed pattern throughout a species and be unlearned. • Early instinct theorists tried to explain motivation through this theory but they were merely listing instead of explaining such
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need to understand what the problem of evil‚ the free will response‚ and divine foreknowledge is. After viewing the material‚ I concluded that free will is a possible response to the problem of evil because people choose their actions. Others say that free will is not the cause for evil because God has foreknowledge. However‚ even if God does know everything before it happens‚ this does not mean he forces us to take those actions and takes away our free will. First‚ the problem of evil is the attempt
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Statement BACKGROUND: The dynamics of psychology affect our everyday life and behavior‚ which is what got me so interested in the subject . I have thoroughly enjoyed the subject‚ especially learning about conformity. It fascinates me as it portrays how strong peer pressure can be and I believe this is the main subject that deals with why we act the way we do. We conform everyday‚ offering a wide knowledge on behavior. It is this fascination that has makes psychology such a desirable subject for me. There
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UNIT 3 PSYCHOLOGY SAC #1 “Biological bases of behaviour” Test Duration: 50 minutes This test is worth 60 marks. It is broken up into two sections: |SECTION |No. of questions |Marks allocated | |Multiple choice |30 |30 | |Short answer
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interested in a career in psychology ever since I was a child. Psychology field has many different opportunities to explore. When I first started college‚ I did not know what field I wanted to get into. After a few years in college‚ I realized that I wanted to go into Clinical mental health working with adolescents. During my years in college‚ I was accepted to do an internship at Naomi Family Center. While I was there I worked with many different specialists in the field of psychology. The most interesting
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