All Psychologists AP Psych Exam Review

Experimented on children to distinguish secure vs. insecure attachment

Known for natural selection & contributions to Evolutionary Psychology

Founded psychometrics, studied eugenics, and tried to selectively breed genetically superior individuals

Founded first psych lab

T/F: Margaret Floy Washburn accepted her reward for first female PhD in Psych

Known for split-brain research; Known for surgery to treat epileptics by severing corpus callosum

T/F: Carl Rogers founded Humanstic Psychology, client-centered therapy, unconditional positive regard, etc.

Focused on counterconditioning of fears

Developed the idea of collective unconscious, archetypes

Made the Linguistic Determinism Hypothesis, the idea that language determines thought

Short-term memory & "Magic Number" = 7 ± 2 ; Sensory/Iconic memory using a grid of letters and beeps

T/F: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is about how humans strive for self-actualization

Experimented with wire/cloth monkeys ; Studied imprinting in animals

Father of the Psychoanalytic perspective and identified the 5 stages of psychosexual development

Triarchic Theory of Intelligence ; 2 Factor Theory of Intelligence

Made most widely used intelligence test today ; Made the Stanford-Binet test, honoring Binet for his influence

Developed the first Intelligence Test and studied French school children; mental age

Known for work in Classical Conditioning & Associative Learning

Did controversial research on sexual motivation in the 1940's and 50's

T/F: Carol Gilligan criticized Kohlberg because he was biased and only studied white men and boys

T/F: Hubel and Wiesel discovered feature detector cells in the visual cortex

Speech comprehension area located in the temporal lobe named after him:

Known for Idea that we are born with a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) that helps us learn language

Created mental hospitals to better care for the mentally ill in America

Focused on parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive

T/F: Elizabeth Loftus studied the misinformation effect, false memories, and eyewitness testimonies

Known for work with Operant Conditioning, ________ Box, Pos vs. Neg Reinforcement/Punishment

T/F: John Garcia conditioned rats to see what they became aversed to, finding not all stimuli can become conditioned

Made the Contingency Theory - a stimulus must provide subject info about the likelihood an event will occur

2-Factor Theory of Emotion - symp. arousal + cognitive label ; ______ Theory of Emotion - bodily reaction, then emotion

First president of APA & first psych lab in America; First psych textbook

T/F: Wolgang Kohler experimented and found insight in chimps; short stick, long stick, banana

Stream of Consciousness; The Role of theUnconscious

T/F: John B. Watson is known for contributions to Behavioral Psychology & "Little Albert" Experiment

Made the Bobo Doll Experimented & Social Learning Theory

First female president of APA, first woman to earn her PhD but refused the award

Big Five Trait Theory (CANOE: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion)

Analyzed Multiple Intelligences: linguistic, mathematical, kinesthetic, spatial, musical, inter/intrapersonal, natural

Researched on the concept of Absolute Threshold

T/F: Vygotsky made the "Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD)

Used Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) ; Used a gentler approach to cognitive therapy

Identified the Levels of Moral Development: Pre-Conv., Conventional, Post-Conv.

T/F: Seyle developed the idea of General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - alarm, resistance exhaustion; reaction to stress

Known for work with Cognitive Developement

T/F: Weber's Law focused on "difference threshold" and compared the noticeability of different stimuli

Inferiority complex ; Father of Positive Psychology

Speech production area in the (left) frontal lobe named after him:

Identified the 8 stages of Psychosocial Development (ex: intimacy vs. isolation)

Discovered that many facial expressions are innate by observing blind individuals

Latent Learning & Cognitive Map; Law of Effect