FIRST SEMESTER AP PSYCH REVIEW DEC 24

What term refers to whether a study yields consistent results?

Which term represents the smallest unit of sound in a language?

What depth perception cue involves objects blocking the view of other objects?

What type of test usually involves reasoning & logic questions and is intended to express a person's potential?

Subjects must usually agree to be in a study beforehand. What is this guideline called?

Which of the following researchers conducted controversial attachment research on monkeys?

Which cognitive reasoning strategy involves making probability judgments based off of what easily comes to mind?

What terminology refers to the need to have numbers to represent your variables?

Which of the following people established the first modern psychological laboratory in 1879?

What term involves participants altering behavior if they learn of the purpose of a study?

What research method involves studying a single individual or a few individuals?

Which measure of central tendency is defined as the average score&can be distorted by outliers?

Which neurotransmitter has been linked to pleasure, movement, motivation, and concentration?

What term represents "the smallest amount of stimulus that is detectable 50% of the time"?

What is the guideline of telling subjects the purpose of a study after participation called?

What part of the forebrain regulates hormones involved with eating, sleeping, and sex?

What stage is called paradoxical sleep because it physiologically resembles waking consciousness?

The brain is normally protected from harmful chemicals by what barrier?

What hormone is inhibited by light and increases in dark conditions (leading to sleepiness)?

"WEIRD" people are over-rep. in most psych. research. What type of sampling is this called?

What biological rhythm is involved in the 24-hour sleep/wake cycle?

In the parietal lobe there is a cortex that is known as the "body map". What is it called?

What sleep disorder is characterized by cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and automatic behavior?

What type of research involves passively taking notes on the behavior of people?

Modern psychologists emphasize the need for evidence. What is this concept specifically called?

What processing involves the use of background knowledge to fill in gaps in what you perceive?

Which neurotransmitter is inhibitory and is linked to anxiety and epilepsy when low?

Which contemporary psychological perspective emphasizes unconscious conflicts in the mind?

Which term represents the brain changing over time, most dramatically following injuries?

Which part of a neuron is the output fiber that sends messages to neighboring neurons?

What lobe contains the somatosensory cortex and is involved in math and spatial skills?

Which involves searching for evidence supporting our beliefs&ignoring evidence that contradicts what we think is true?

What are active categories for understanding the world called?

What is the gap between neurons called?

What term involves a variable that an exp. is not accounting for that may be effecting results?

What research method utilizes data from surveys to examine relationships bet. characteristics?

Which neurotrans. is involved in memory & is deficient in people with Alzheimer's disease?

What type of variable is defined as a "deliberate manipulation by the experimenter"?

Which type of heuristic involves judging a situation based on prototypes?

Which type of retinal cell is needed for visual clarity and color vision?

Which stats involves predictions about a pop. based on a sample of data taken from the pop.?

What is it called when you use a rule/formula to solve a problem?

Which of the following states that change needs to be proportional in order to be noticed?

What type of intelligence involves the ability to reason quickly and think abstractly?

What official term involves the brain and body maintaining equilibrium or balance?

What term is used for a variable that is measured to see how it is changed by a manipulation?

What part of the nervous sys. is responsible for slowing the body down after a stress response?

Which contemporary psych. perspective emphasizes the power of the environment & conditioning?

Which part of a neuron surrounds the axon & allows for greater transmission speed of impulses?

What are the body position and balance senses collectively called?

What snail-shaped structure in the inner ear transduces sound?

What term refers to the accuracy of a study?

Which part of a neuron is also known as the soma and determines whether a neuron will fire?

Nearby objects can be seen in greater detail. What depth perception cue does this exemplify?

What types of neurons take messages from the senses to the brain?

What lobe is involved in abstract thought, judgment, and impulse control?