AP Test Review

Question 1

Psychology’s overarching question

Answer 1

Nature vs. Nuture

Question 2

German psychologist who opened first psychology lab

Answer 2

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 3

Examining ones own thoughts, feelings, and sensations

Answer 3

introspection

Question 4

Behaviorists (names)

Answer 4

Pavlov, Skinner, Garcia

Question 5

Father of Behaviorism

Answer 5

John B. Watson

Question 6

IO (Industrial-Organizational) psychologists

Answer 6

workplace, management, etc.

Question 7

Which correlation is strongest? +1 or -1?

Answer 7

Neither, they are EQUAL

Question 8

Would a correlational graph be a scatter plot or histrogram?

Answer 8

scatter plot

Question 9

Normal curve with no variants would appear as a

Answer 9

vertical line

Question 10

In experiments we try to isolate

Answer 10

cause & effect

Question 11

Ions most involved in action potential

Answer 11

sodium & potassium

Question 12

Period of time after firing where a neuron can’t fire again

Answer 12

refractory period

Question 13

neurotransmitter dealing with muscle memory, movement, and alzheimers

Answer 13

acetylcholine (ACh)

Question 14

neurotransmitter dealing with schizophrenia and Parkinsons

Answer 14

dopamine

Question 15

SSRis block the reuptake of

Answer 15

serotonin

Question 16

A chemical that fits the receptor site and activates it

Answer 16

agonist

Question 17

A chemical that fits the receptor site and blocks it

Answer 17

antagonist

Question 18

biological balance

Answer 18

homeostasis

Question 19

neurotransmitter dealing with pain and pleasure

Answer 19

endorphins

Question 20

main excitatory neurotransmitter

Answer 20

glutamate (glutes are exciting)

Question 21

part of the brain that is the sensory router for everything but smell

Answer 21

thalamus

Question 22

parts of the limbic system

Answer 22

thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus

Question 23

part of the brain most related to memory

Answer 23

hippocampus

Question 24

part of the brain most related to emotions like fear and anger

Answer 24

amygdala

Question 25

speech problems

Answer 25

aphasias

Question 26

Wernicke's Aphasia

Answer 26

problems understanding speech (talks, but incoherent)

Question 27

Broca's Aphasia

Answer 27

problems producing speech

Question 28

Structure connecting the two sides of the brain

Answer 28

corpus callosum

Question 29

Psychologist who centered around cutting the corpus callosum

Answer 29

Michael Gazzaniga

Question 30

A mental framework that helps people organize information about the world (Piaget)

Answer 30

schema

Question 31

Chief attachment theorists

Answer 31

Mary Ainsworth, Harry Harlow

Question 32

Research method created by Mary Ainsworth

Answer 32

Strange Situation (predicts future social confidence)

Question 33

Chief morality theorists

Answer 33

Lawrence Kohlberg

Question 34

The lens flexing in an eye

Answer 34

accomadation

Question 35

Layers of cells in the eye (in order)

Answer 35

rods and cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells

Question 36

Getting used to your watch and not noticing it on your wrist anymore

Answer 36

sensory adaptation

Question 37

Spot in your eye with the best vision

Answer 37

fovea

Question 38

What cells are NOT in the fovea?

Answer 38

rods

Question 39

Which color has longer waves, red or blue?

Answer 39

red

Question 40

Balance sensors are in your

Answer 40

ear

Question 41

What are osiclles?

Answer 41

bones in ears

Question 42

The six taste senses

Answer 42

sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, oleogustus

Question 43

Gestalt Principles

Answer 43

Rules that describe how the humans visually organize elements into meaningful homes (proximity, similarity, continuity)

Question 44

binocular depth cues

Answer 44

convergence and retinal disparity

Question 45

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 45

There is an optimal level of arousal for performance

Question 46

In what stage do sleep spindles happen?

Answer 46

Stage 2

Question 47

Your body making up REM sleep after missing it

Answer 47

REM rebound

Question 48

Perception of body movements and detecting changes in body movement

Answer 48

Kinesthesis

Question 49

Alcohol is a

Answer 49

depressant

Question 50

cocaine is a

Answer 50

stimulant

Question 51

the conditioned stimulus should come before the unconditioned stimulus by

Answer 51

0.5 secs

Question 52

theorist with the Law of Effect

Answer 52

Thorndike

Question 53

theorist with biological predisposition

Answer 53

Garcia

Question 54

reinforcement pattern most resistant to extinction

Answer 54

variable ratio reinforcement style (every once in a while)

Question 55

Bandura did what experiment?

Answer 55

BoBo Doll (children learn aggression through observation)

Question 56

memory encoding most likely to be remembered?

Answer 56

semantic memory

Question 57

memory for emotionally significant things

Answer 57

flashbulb memory

Question 58

memory for automatic tasks

Answer 58

procedural

Question 59

can’t form new memories

Answer 59

anterograde

Question 60

can’t recall old memories

Answer 60

retrograde