AP Psychology Final Flashcard

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What is Psychology?

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The study of the human mind and behavior.

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If someone learns how to perform certain skills from self experience is it nurture or nature?

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nurture

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Which type of creative thinking expands the number of possible problem solutions?

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Divergent Thinking

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What is our tendency to think we know or can perform better or more accurately than we really can?

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Overconfidence

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In trying to solve a potentially complicated problem quickly, we are most likely to rely on

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heuristics.

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While waiting in line at Starbucks, Kramer was playing games on his cell phone and subsequently failed to see the customer in front of him rob the cashier. This is an example of...

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inattentional blindness

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Which of the following is a perception? noting a change in temperature, hearing an increase in volume, recognizing an object as a car, viewing a decrease in brightness

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recognizing an object as a car

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Who is an influential social cognitive psychologist known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and the Bobo doll experiments?

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Albert Bandura

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Tyler insists that his girlfriend's car accident was a result of her bad driving not the snowy conditions. This illustrates...

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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The tendency of people to exert less effort when they are pooling their efforts towards a common goal.

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social loafing