AP Psych Exam Study Guide 2021

(People to Know) Edward Titchener

(People to Know) Wilhelm Wundt

(People to Know) William James

(People to Know) Sigmund Freud

(People to Know) John B. Watson

(People to Know) Mary Calkins

(People to Know) Margaret Washburn

(People to Know) John Locke

(People to Know) Aristotle

(Unit 1) Behavioral Psychology

(Unit 1) Cognitive Psychology

(Unit 1) Evolutionary Psychology

(Unit 1) Social-Cultural Psychology

(Unit 1) Psychodyamic Psychology

(Unit 1) Neuroscience/Biological Psychology

(Unit 1) Humanistic Psychology

(Unit 1) Research method in which one observes and records feelings and observations

(Unit 1) Psychologists that design programs or consumer goods so they are easy for use

(Unit 1) Psychologists who develop training programs or applicant selection

(Unit 1) Psychologists who study the difference between introverts and extroverts

(Unit 1) Psychologists who study marital patterns in different societies

(Unit 2) People should have known that the second twin tower would collapse

(Unit 2) I always underestimate how much time it will take me to finish my homework

(Unit 2) In a research study of violent behavior, how would you define violent behavior?

(Unit 2) Why are operational definitions so important?

(Unit 2) Type of research study used for rare disorders

(Unit 2) Best research method to reach a large population

(Unit 2) How to ensure your sample is representative of a larger population

(Unit 2) What method would you use to study African baboons behavior

(Unit 2) What does a correlation coefficient of -.96 tell you?

(Unit 2) Every time I wear dirty soccer socks, my team wins. What kind of correlation is this?

(Unit 2) The only research method that allows us to determine cause and effect

(Unit 2) Why is a double blind procedure helpful?

(Unit 2) The variable that is manipulated

(Unit 2) What makes the results of a study statistically significant?

(Unit 2) Ethical guidelines for studying humans

(Unit 3) Part of the neuron that receives messages

(Unit 3) What is the function of the myelin sheath?

(Unit 3) What type of neuron carries messages from sensory receptors to the brain?

(Unit 3) What happens to neurotransmitters in the synapse that aren't absorbed by dendrites?

(Unit 3) Chemical messengers of the endocrine system

(Unit 3) Nervous system responsible for fight or flight

(Unit 3) Somatic and autonomic nervous system are part of what

(Unit 3) Which brain scan measures the level of glucose in active brain regions?

(Unit 3) Which scan measures electrical activity in the brain?

(Unit 3) Brain region responsible for emotions

(Unit 3) Brain regions responsible for arousal and alertness

(Unit 3) Which part of the brain helps with formation of new memories

(Unit 3) Lobe responsible for vision

(Unit 3) Lobe responsible for hearing

(Unit 3) Lobe responsible for judgement, planning, etc.

(Unit 3) Connects two cerebral hemispheres

(Unit 3) Specialty areas of the brain located in the cerebral cortex

(Unit 3) Know right and left specialization

(Unit 3) Why study identical twins?

(Unit 4) Detection vs interpretation

(Unit 4) You can ignore students talking while you finish your test

(Unit 4) You don't notice when your brother switches your pepperoni pizza with cheese

(Unit 4) The first moment you detect sound, sight, touch, etc.

(Unit 4) Your threshold depends on motivation, fatigue, experience, etc.

(Unit 4) Give an example of Weber's Law

(Unit 4) Transduction

(Unit 4) What does wavelength and amplitude measure?

(Unit 4) What controls how much light enters the eye

(Unit 4) What contains rods and cones

(Unit 4) Nerve cells I the visual cortex that fire in response to edges, angles, and lines

(Unit 4) Why were we able to perceive color, motion, and form of a deer running

(Unit 4) What theory of color explains after-images?

(Unit 4) Theory that explains why we hear high pitched sounds

(Unit 4) Conductive vs sensorineural hearing loss

(Unit 4) McGurk Effect

(Unit 4) Perceptual rule that allows us to see a plane vs the sky

(Unit 4) bottom up vs top down processing

(Unit 4) Gestalt rules of grouping

(Unit 4) Perceptual rule that allows us to view motion on a movie screen

(Unit 4) Things at the top of a painting are perceives as higher than things at the bottom

(Unit 4) We know a deer doesn't grow larger as it runs closer to us

(Unit 4) When you know a teachers desk is closer To you than the teacher standing behind it

(Unit 5) What brain waves are associated with awake and alert

(Unit 5) Brain waves for deep sleep

(Unit 5) Brain waves for relaxed but awake

(Unit 5) How long does the average sleep cycle last?

(Unit 5) Stage we do our dreaming in

(Unit 5) Dream theory that makes sense of random neurons firing

(Unit 5) Freuds dream theory

(Unit 5) Latent vs manifest content

(Unit 5) Alcohol, opiates, and barbiturates are what kind of drugs

(Unit 5) Caffiene, cocaine, amphetamines, etc.

(Unit 6) Relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience

(Unit 6) The purpose of Albert Bandura's bobo doll experiment

(Unit 6) Pavlov's experiment on dogs

(Unit 6) Your dog sits because he knows you'll give him a treat

(Unit 6) The bell in Pavlovs experiment

(Unit 6) Dog salivating to food

(Unit 6) When a response reappears after becoming extinct

(Unit 6) Little Albert was conditioned to fear white rats and also exhibited fear to white rabbits

(Unit 6) Edward Thorndikes Law of Effect

(Unit 6) What method should you use to teach your dog to bring your slippers

(Unit 6) Getting an A on your test after you've studied for weeks is what kind of reinforcement

(Unit 6) Taking Tylenol to relieve your headache

(Unit 6) What type of reinforcer is food? Money?

(Unit 6) Slot machines

(Unit 6) Getting paid every two weeks

(Unit 6) Spanking a child for bad behavior

(Unit 6) Taking away car keys after your child breaks curfew