FIRST SEMESTER AP PSYCH REVIEW DEC 2020

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

What schedule of reinforcement is exemplified by employees getting paid every two weeks?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What are the body position and balance senses collectively called?

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

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

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

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

Which effect represents the decrease of intrinsic interest following extrinsic rewards?

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

What is the gap between neurons called?

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

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

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

A teacher exempts you from homework if you get an A on the previous test. What does this exemplify?

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

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

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

What is conditioning that involves an unwanted or undesirable response called?

What are active categories for understanding the world called?

Seligman found that dogs may stop trying to escape shocks. What did he call this behavior?

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

Which part of a neuron consists of input fibers that relay messages into the cell body?

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

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

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

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

Gambling at slot machines in casinos exemplifies what schedule of reinforcement?

Which contemporary psychological perspective emphasizes unconscious conflicts in the mind?

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

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

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

When paired with food, what did the tuning fork eventually become in Pavlov's experiments?

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

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

Which Middle Age "treatment" for mental illness involved drilling a hole in the head?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

What term refers to whether a study yields consistent results?

What term refers to the accuracy of a study?

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

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

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

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

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

Who "coined" the terminology of operant conditioning?

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

What did Pavlov call the dogs' reflexive salivation from food?