AP Psych Test Review

Retinal receptors that detect black, white and gray; necessary for dark or dim light.

Behaviorists explain human thought and behavior as a result of

According to Erikson in middle adulthood the task is

Random sampling should eliminate

Failing to see objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

A disorder characterized by physical symptoms with no physical cause

Afferent neurons

What is the "O" in the acronym CANOE in personality theory

A split-brain patient is unable to

Fertilized egg up to 2 weeks

Hunger hormone secreted by empty stomach, sends signal to brain of hunger

the learning in which one links two or more stimuli and anticipate events

Agents that can affect embryo or fetus in negative way

proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes

learning tat occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it

Psychologist who developed moral reasoning theory

Proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes.

The measures of central tendency

Conducted a famous prison simulation experiment at Stanford University

developing human from 2 weeks through 2nd month

Fun-loving people who rarely rush, get angry, and is easy-going.

Competitive, hard driving personality type that has more coronary heart disease

Delusions are false...

Bandura had this to say about personality development

manifest content of dreams

Social psychologist that did obedience experiments with shocking people

Sigmund Freud is credited with a theory on

Who said our intelligence is best classified into 3 areas that predict real-world events?

The extent to which a test measures or predictrs what it is supposed to

Modern type of psychoanalysis that focuses less on id, ego and superego

Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in 3 phases

Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment is associated with

A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score

controls language expression in left frontal lobe

Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think

Lithium and Depakote may be used for this

Wilhelm Wundt used this research method

An increase in a cell's firing potential after a brief stimulation; a neural basis for learning

a therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking

behavioral techniques such as virtual reality and systematic desensitization to treat anxiety

loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

in language it's the smallest distinctive sound unit

Prozac is in which class of medication?

Of the following, the strongest positive correlation would most likely be shown between

The classic conditioning experiment was first conducted by whom?

latent content of dreams

tendency for others to attribute another's behavior on their personality rather than situation

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas

Theorist that said that each stage of life has its own psychosocial task, such as trust, etc

an inability to form new memories

Insanity is used in the DSM V to excuse people from a crime they committed.

Our accumulated knowledge, increases with age

The "bark" of the brain, the ultimate control and information-processing center.

How are memories processed?

Which psychologist said that humans have a hierarchy of needs?

Current term for personality disorder characterized by lack of conscience

Theory that retina contains 3 different color receptors

Piaget's theory of cognitive development during elementary school years

A Russian developmental psychologist who studied how kids think and learn

Spearman's theory on intelligence

An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members

Which psychologist coined the term collective unconcious?

The master gland of the endocrine system

A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

our tendency to remember the last and first items on a list

The minimum stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.

Who wrote the first Psychology textbook?

A molecule that by binding to a receptor site stimulates a response.

an organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

According to Rogers this is an attitude of total acceptance of another person

The sense of body movement and position, including sense of balance.

an event that tends to decrease the behavior that it follows

BF Skinner introduced the idea of _____ to the field of behaviorism

According to Maslow, one of the ultimate needs that arises after basic needs are met

a mental image or best example of a category

What does the medulla control?

Phobias are classified as which kind of disorder?

The limbic system contains

Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely

In what stage of sleep are you likely to experience hypnagogic sensations of falling?

A mental predisposition that functions as a lens through which we perceive the world.

Freud's theory of how ego has protective methods for reducing anxiety by distorting reality

Excessive self-love and self-absorption

Fear or avoidance of situations such as crowds or open places; one feels loss of control/panic

Uses magnetic fields & radio waves to produce computer-generated images of soft tissue

The parasympathetic nervous system

What is the median of the following distribution: 6, 2, 9, 4, 7, 3?

the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate

Giving priority to the goals of one's group rather than the individual

Tendency of facial muscles states to trigger corresponding feelings, such as happiness

a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore other info

A prominent humanist psychologist

the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

In psychoanalysis,method of exploring unconscious by having person say whatever comes to mind

Blindness could result from damage to which lobe in the brain?

drugs that depress central nervous system and inhibit pain

A neural extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or muscles

first menstrual cycle

a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a problem

A defining uniform testing procedure and meaningful scores using a pre-test