AP Psychology 6 Week Comp Review
Hargis AP Psychology – 6 week comp review
Know these inside and out – know this information thoroughly and you will do very well on the 6 week comp!!! I encourage you to study in a tutorial group… talking about these concepts with friends will deepen your understanding. Superficial knowledge will NOT serve you well. This will be due on Friday. Most of these are gimmes!
1. contemporary definition of psychology-
2. 1st psych lab – what do you know about it?
3. functionalism/structuralism – compare contrast the beginnings
4. Humanistic psychologists focus on…?
5. What perspective (and theorists) totally ignores mental processes in defining psychology?
6. Natural selection?
7. How does neuroscience explain depression?
8. What does evolutionary perspective focus on?
9. What perspective is concerned with heritable traits being shaped by the environment?
10. Anytime you see the words unconscious or repressed urges, what perspective is usually being described?
11. What does the behavioral perspective stress?
12. What type of psychologist would focus on massed and spaced practice on memory?
13. What perspective studies impact of racial prejudice on behavior?
14. Give a behavioral example of hindsight bias?
15. Give a behavioral example of overconfidence?
16. What does it mean to think critically?
17. Exemplify the importance of wording effects in survey construction.
18. Exemplify the false consensus effect.
19. Which statistical measure indicated the extent to which one variable predicts another?
20. Understand the meaning of specific correlational coefficients. (+.80, +.02, -0.20, -0.80, 0.00)
21. What does it mean to confuse correlation with causation?
22. Because you stepped on a crack the day your Mother broke her back, you are convinced you caused it. What is this called?
23. Identify and differentiate independent and dependent variables.
24. What is a placebo?
25. Explain a double blind experiment and its benefits in experiments.
26. Identify and differentiate control and experimental group? Which would get a placebo?
27. Which measure of central tendency would be affected the most by an extremely low student score?
28. Be able to figure out the mean, median and mode of a series of numbers (without a calculator!!!!)
29. What does a small standard deviation means inn a class’ distribution of scores?
30. What types of behavior are dependent on culture?
31. List the APA’s ethical guidelines for experiments involving people.
32. I study the relationship between limbic system and sexual motivation. What is my specialty?
33. Trace the path of an electrical signal in a neuron (ie – neuron dance J)
34. What is the action potential of a neuron?
35. Resting potential is to action potential as _______________ is to ________________.
36. What happens when Ach is blocked? (acetylcholine)
37. Opiate receptors occupy the same receptor sites as _____________
38. Which specialized neurons take information from the spinal cord to the brain?
39. Identify the types of neurons by where they are in the body: sensory, interneuron and motor)
40. What produces epinephrine and norepinephrine?
41. Which imaging technique is the best way to detect large fluid filled brain regions?
42. Which imaging technique relies on glucose ot pinpoint active brain regions.
43. What hindbrain structure is your life support, controlling heartbeat and breathing?
44. What brain structure is the major link to the endocrine system?
45. What area in the rear of the frontal lobe controls voluntary movements?
46. What part of the cerebral cortex controls the movements needed for speech?
47. What is meant by the brain’s plasticity?
48. What causes neural networks to form?
49. What structure shares information between right and left hemispheres?
50. Where are chromosomes located?
51. What do twin studies suggest about Alzheimer’s disease?
52. Identical twins separated at birth would be most likely to share what traits?
53. Temperaments tend to be influence more strongly by nature or nurture?
54. Which perspective attributes gender differences to greater reproductive potential?
55. Compare and contrast individualism and collectivism.
56. What is indicated by cross cultural research on human development and diversity?
57. What effect does increased exposure to testosterone have on prenatal development in females?
58. What approach integrates the physical, psychological and social influences on gender differences? (hint – every chapter ends with his type of graphic organizer)
59. Explain the effects of teratogens on the development of a zygote, embryo and fetus?
60. What’s so important about the rooting reflex?
61. What is meant by the nature-nurture influence on personality?
62. Jean Piaget – the man and his theory!
63. Explain and exemplify your schemas.
64. Differentiate and exemplify accommodation and assimilation.
65. Identify and exemplify object permanence. During which stage of cognitive development is this present?
66. Identify and exemplify egocentrism. During which stage of cognitive development is this present?
67. What is a child unlikely to do if still in the concrete operational stage?
68. How does a 1 year old child exemplify a secure attachment?
69. What is most affected by moving through a series of foster homes?
70. What is the only defining characteristic of primary sex characteristics?
71. Hypothetical reasoning is characteristic of what cognitive stage?
72. Explain and exemplify the stages of Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning.
73. What affect does aging have on intelligence?
74. What does research show about life satisfaction over the life span?
75. Differentiate sensation and perception by definition and example.
76. Exemplify the effects of top down processing on sensations.
77. What is subliminal stimulation and how effective is it in advertising?
78. How is Weber’s law relevant to an understanding of difference thresholds?
79. Define and exemplify sensory adaptation.
80. Explain transduction; visual and acoustic.
81. What does amplitude of waves indicate? (vision and audition)
82. What causes the blind spot in vision?
83. Hubel and Weisel studied what specific aspect of vision?
84. Explain and exemplify parallel processing in both vision and audition.
85. Identify and exemplify blindsight.
86. Know the three pairings of opponent processing cells in vision.
87. Where in the brain are opponent processing cells located?
88. _____________ is to light as loudness is to _____________.
89. What is meant by the place theory of sound? What area of the ear is specifically stimulated?
90. What type of hearing loss does a cochlear implant correct?
91. Identify and exemplify sensory interaction.
92. Kinesthetic receptor cells are located where in the body?
93. Which of your five senses is chemical?