Psychology…Chapter 1 Notes Definition of psychology: Psychology: the science of behavior and mental processes Science: approach to knowledge based on systematic observation Behavior: directly observable and measurable human actions Mental processes: private psychological activities that include thinking‚ perceiving‚ and feeling Theories: tentative explanation of facts and relationship in sciences 4 goals of psychology: 1. Describe: the information gathered through specific research
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FRQ Practice #2 AP Psychology 2013-2014 1. In response to declining reading scores in local schools‚ John wrote an editorial suggesting that schools need to increase interest in reading books by providing students with incentives. Based on research showing a relation between use of incentives and student reading‚ he recommended providing a free Starbucks gift card for every ten books a student reads. A. Explain how each of the following psychological concepts could be used to refute John’s
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AP Psych Learning Guided Reading-1 1. Learning is the long lasting changing due to experience. Example: In school‚ students absorb knowledge from different kinds of subjects. 2. Associative learning is learning to associate one stimulus with another. 3 Example: Lucy opened her car door and got attacked by a swarm of bees that got in through an open window. Lucy developed a phobia of cars and now takes the bus to work. During this situation‚ US is bees’attack‚ UR is fear CS
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extent to which a test measures and forecasts a behavior in the future. The results of the written exam that you take at the end of the year for AP psychology will be a part of what determines whether you can get those credits for college. Written exams will help you predict how well you will do in college. Standardization is the two-part development process of making both the testing procedures and scoring procedures uniform and objective in order to obtain meaningful scores. The results of the
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StudyAP Human Geography Notes Bartula 4/15/09 General Geography: US road map is not a thematic map Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end According to environmental determinism‚ the physical environment causes social development Highest density: most in numbers Highest concentration: closest together Cloropleth map uses shading Five Themes of Geography: Location: Relative location Absolute location Place: Human Characteristics Physical
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Cornell Notes Topic/Objective: Name: Class/Period: Date: Essential Question: Questions: Notes: Chapter 3 Notes AP human geo -immigration •Haitians would try to leave their country on overcrowded boats • they would come to the southern coast of florida •it was very dangerous and many lost their lives doing it •if they made it over without getting caught then they were able to stay if they made it to shore and could find their way to the home of friends and family and they
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Chapter 1 – Human Development Categories of culture‚ race‚ and ethnicity are fluid‚ continuously shaped and redefined by social and political forces. Cognitive Development • Pattern of change in the mental abilities such as learning‚ attention‚ memory‚ language‚ thinking‚ reasoning‚ and creativity. Cohort • A group of people born at about the same time. Critical period • A specific time when a given event or its absence‚ had a specific impact on development. Culture • A society’s or
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Development in Psychology Childhood and Adolescent Development Watching children grow is one of life ’s biggest joys‚ especially when the children are yours ans you can take certain notices of the milestones that occur from a personal perspective. But one thing people don ’t often acknowledge are the deep‚ inter-workings that actually occur during development‚ such as the psychological processes that take place. In obvious developmental stages such
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1. Professor Lewis studies the history of psychology. She would most likely agree with which of the following statements about psychology’s early history? 2. In thinking about psychology and consciousness‚ the idea that the mind and the body are separate entities that interact makes a lot of sense to you. This view that you hold is most like the view of: 3. Interactive dualism is the idea that: Mind and body were separate entities that interact to produce sensations‚ emotions‚ and other conscious
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entrances‚ and one man in his time plays many parts. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English Playwright‚ 17th Century This book is about human development—its universal features‚ its individual variations‚ its nature. Every life is distinct‚ a new biography in the world. Examining the shape of life-span development allows us to understand it better. A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development is about the rhythm and meaning of people’s lives‚ about turning mystery into understanding‚ and about weaving a portrait
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