AP Psychology…..The all new CUPCAKE REVIEW....
Is there any such thing as a free cupcake? NO!!!!
Answer ALL the questions. You may not eat your cupcake until your answers arecomplete and correct.
1. What, in the process of vision, is responsible for seeing the colors on yourcupcake? Where arethese cells primarily located in the retina? This visual information then travels through
the _____ nerve to the _____ cortex/ _____ lobe.
2. What part of your brain (limbic system) is related to hunger/satiety?
3. What gland is directly controlled by this part of your brain (in above question)?
4. What is the relay center in your brain called?
5. Does the scent of the cupcake go through this system? Explain briefly.
6. There is another important thing about the decorating colors of frosting that you seeon yourcupcake. What are the two theories of colorvision called?
7. If you eat your cupcake, but don’t gain any weight after ingesting all those calories, whatmight that indicate? Identify 2 different factors involved.
8. Sitting here with a cupcake on your desk that you aren’t supposed to eatmay remind youabout an aspect of development that typically develops in adolescence. What is it?
9. Once the cupcake has been sitting on your desk a few minutes, you nolonger really notice it.What is thiscalled?
10. What level of moral development have you attained (at the very least) if you reason that youhave to obey the guidelines for this assignment?
11. If your cupcake had addictive properties (for instance, if it had cocaine in it - how better toget people to keep eating them, if you run a bakery?), what would happen after you ateseveral and then didn’t have any more?
12. What would the cupcake/cocaine be doing in your body at the cellular level?
13. If someone drops a cloth over your cupcake (not damaging it or even messing up thefrosting) and you still realize that you have a cupcake – that it is only hidden, then youhave mastered the cognitive task of ______.
14. Assume for a moment that you are watching someone else eat his/hercupcake. What neuronswould be firing as your empathic self is “in tune”with their experience?
15. The cupcake eater bites his tongue. What is the name of one usefulmodel of pain control?
16. What if the cupcake eater had a cold? Would the cupcake tastedifferent? How?
17. Consider Freudian theory. Which part of you just wants to eat the cake NOW? Which partresists eating it now? Which part tells you it’s not right to break the rules?
18. If you have a choice between a warm, soft blanket and pillow to curl up with on a couch, ora cupcake and you choose the blanket/pillow/couch, you are opting for ______which isan example of the research done by whom?
19. What “school” of therapist might say, “I hear you saying you are annoyedthat you have to dothis assignment before you can eat yourcupcake? That sounds like it’s frustrating foryou.”
20. What if you had a longstanding fear of cupcakes... only cupcakes .... whichinterferes withyour social and/or occupational functioning (I know – just imagine). What disorder doyou likely have? How would you goabout treatment?
21. You are thinking, “This is the most beautiful best, most delicious lookingcupcake in theentire world. If I can’t eat this right now, my head is goingto explode!!!” What type oftherapist might ask you to consider thelikelihood of that outcome?
22. If you are able to eat the cupcake in class, with other people around, with significantly lessmess than usual, what might be the reason?
23. If you are completely overcome by the amazing taste of the cupcake and cannot find thewords to describe it, mumbling the same words over and over, what specific part of yourbrain is failing you?
24. Write each of the phonemes in the word “cupcake.”
25. If you watch someone else eat their cupcake in an unusual manner and decide to do the sameyourself, and are successfully able to recreate their eating style after watching them, youhave used what method of learning?
26. What disorder are you showing some symptoms of if you:
a. Peel the cupcake. Sweep crumbs off desk. Take tiny bites in anexact circle around
the cupcake edge. Sweep crumbs off desk. Tiny bites again another concentric
circle. Sweep. Repeat 9Xmore.
b. You eat 15 cupcakes in a 2-hour period and feel sad, frustrated, and feel to need to rid
yourself of these calories.
c. Your heart rate jumps and you feel like you are re-experiencing the tragedy of your
2nd grade birthday celebration in school when thewhole class surprised you and
you wet your pants. Ahhh! Theflashbacks!
d. You’ve been studying for AP exams for the past 7 days. You needlittle sleep, are
incredibly productive, but just bought 5 new studybooks and the Barons 1000
vocabulary word flash cards. Peopletell you that you are talking too fast.
e. “Maybe the cupcake is poisoned. You know Mr. Minnick’s always had it in foryou”
says the voice inside your head.
f. You do a little work. You read some quotes on the wall. You tap your pencil and
bounce your knee and thinkabout going out this weekend. You do a bit more
work. You get upto go to the bathroom. You come back in the classroom and see
your cupcake. Man, that looks good. You eat it right away. Oops.That always
happens: that acting BEFORE thinking thing.
g. You’ve been sleeping a lot lately. Not wanting to eat much. Feelinghopeless about the
future. This is probably the last cupcakeanyone is ever going to make for you.
You don’t have any idea howyou actually got into college, they must not really
have read yourapplication carefully.
h. You suddenly find a cupcake and a paper on your desk. You don’t remember anyone
putting itthere and you have no idea why you are sitting in this unfamiliarroom.
i. You look at your cupcake and feel like you have somehow been cheated and you just
can’tbelieve it. How could anyone not give you the very best cupcake? How
could someone else possibly deserve a cupcake better than the one you have?
You reach out and take the cupcake from the students next to you and stack it on
top of yours, creating a magnificent double-cupcake. Now that’s better. That’s
more like it. That’s the way things should be.
27. If your cupcake is created for you in recognition of the effort you’ve putforth this year andthe learning you’ve accomplished it would be______. If it is considered as making yourhunger goaway, it is ______.
28. What primary taste sensation is your cupcake likely to stimulate?
29. What lobe of your brain is working hard to inhibit your motor cortex from grabbing thecupcake and taking a bite?
30. If you feel that the cupcake was earned and that you were in control of whether or not youreceived one, you have an ______. If you feel that it was just fate or luck that you got acupcake, it is because you have an ______.
31. My favorite thing about psychology is______. This sentence completion task is anexample of what kind of personality assessment?
32. If you believe that you could have made a better cupcake than the one that has been providedto you, then you have a feeling of ______about baking, based on previous experiences(not “confidence”).
33. Consider repeated pairings that have occurred. Tasty snacks cause yourmouth to water. Nowyou have climbed the stairs to the 2nd floor, and onseveral occasions have had tastysnacks. Because of your associativelearning, your schema for psychology has expanded.You retrieve, fromLTM, images of rat mazes and candy, chocolate from reviewpresentations, sugar cubes from taste experiences, etc. Assuming conditioning hasoccurred, what is the UCS? UCR? CS?
34. If you fall asleep suddenly during the assignment and never even get to eat your cupcake(the rest of the class split it while you were dozing), it could be because you have______. What stage of sleep were you in when you fell asleep? What kind of brain waves do you have now that you are awake and alert again?
35. What neurotransmitter/pathway has been going crazy in anticipation ofthe cupcake reward?
36. If the cupcakes are part of an experiment to determine whether chocolate improves memoryretrieval, what would be the IV and DV? The experimental and control groups?
37. What ethical guidelines might the above experiment have violated? (Name at least 2.)
38. If you are in a cage and the cupcake is outside the cage, whose research are youdemonstrating if you have to activate a series of different latches and levers to open thecage door to reach your cupcake? What about if you have to assemble a stick out ofshorter sticks to reach the cupcake and pull it closer?
39. If you became ill immediately after eating your cupcake and you werewatching a PhillipZimbardo clip, would you associate your illness with Dr.Zimbardo’s voice? Theclassroom? Or the cupcake? Why? Whose research is this related to?
40. If you eat your cupcake and it is fantastic and later when asked about your favorite kind ofcupcake, you immediately think of the flavor that you had, what mental shortcut will youhave just used?
41. Lauren yells “It’s not fair! Chris’s cupcake has more frosting. You can feel the difference.”You hold one cupcake ineach hand. You are correct about which one is heavier 50% ofthe time. This is called ______?
42. If you are happy about having been given a cupcake that you get to eat as soon as yousuccessfully complete a very simple assignment, but then learn that you have to servedetention for being tardy to class, you might get more irritated or unhappy than usual andyour happiness is gone. What theory of emotion explains this?
43. If you expect the cupcake to taste a certain way, because you have had a similar cupcake inthe past and you remember the taste very clearly, this would an example of ______. Ifyou are experiencing the taste for the very first time and have no expectations, yourperception of it would be ______instead.
44. You snatch the cupcake of the girl sitting next to you, stuff it in yourmouth, and RUN as shestarts chasing you. Your ______nervoussystem of your autonomic nervous iskicked into high gear as you are in“flight.” What is not happening to the cupcake now?(what is “turned off”when you are fleeing?)
45. If all of you do very well on the AP exam AND you all had a tasty cupcake, and otherstudents in other schools don’t do well and didn’t receivecupcakes, can I proclaim“cupcakes increase student AP exam scores?” Why or why not? What are two alternativeexplanations/other variables that may be involved?
46. You wonder, does this stuff all really relate to what we’ve learned? Is ita ______measure ofour cumulative knowledge? Will it predict oursuccess on the AP exam?
47. You are nearing the end of the assignment and you can feel your heart beating rapidly. Youdecide that this must be because you are excited about the prospect of finally getting toeat your cupcake. What theory explains why you feel this way?
48. You are stunned and how you have been very successful on this exercise. Name threedifferent methods you used in the encoding process tofacilitate retrieval:
49. Psychology is the study of ______and ______processes.
50. What two activities improve your cognitive ability, alertness, help youmanage stress, and improve your mood? (G-rated answers please). Do them both for the next week—morethan usual.
Thank you for a great year! Continue to review over the next week. Target your time wisely on the units that you struggled with.
Cupcake AP Review Activity
Name: ______Due Date: ______Pd: ______
Answer the questions to the best of your ability. Bring your answers to a review day. Earn 90% or better to get a prize…. Maybe a confection with icing!!!!!