Early Psych and Approaches
Who is credited as the founder of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
Based on its effects on the central nervous system, alcohol can be classified as which of the following concepts?
What is depressant/(downer)?
Bonus 100pts: Provide examples of Depressants
Name both of the senses that rely on chemical receptor cells.
Taste and Smell
Who "discovered" Classical Conditioning?
Bonus 100pts: In detail as a Behavior Psychologist explain the steps of his experiment.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
What is combining two stimuli (Bell & Food) to create a Conditioned Response (Salivation)
What is it called when we cannot remember the beginning of our lives, usually from birth to 3 or 4.
Infantile Amnesia
The psychological approach, founded by Sigmund Freud, concentrates on the unconscious mind.
Psychoanalytic (later Psychodynamic)
Which side of a typical brain has language?
Bonus 100pts: Which area is specifically for language production?
Left,
Bonus: Broca's Area,
Wernicke's Area is for processing.
In hearing, what determines pitch?
Frequency
Who "discovered" Operant Conditioning and what did he do to prove that it worked?
Who is B.F. Skinner
What is Skinner’s box
In Piaget's Stages of Development, which stage do children gain knowledge about conservation?
Concrete Operational
Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation is known as...
This is known as what type of research method?
Bonus 100pts: Provide examples of other research methods and how and why they’re conducted.
What is Naturalistic Observation
What is Descriptive Method
Bonus: What is Experimental/Correlational...
Drug's affect us at the neurological level, specifically they often inhibit, excite, or mimic naturally occurring ____ which crosses the _______-gap
Neurotransmitters, Synaptic
The spot in our eye where we cannot see anything.
Bonus 100pts: If you can describe why we have them.
Blind Spot;
Bonus: It is where the optic nerve exits the eye.
In Operant Conditioning, what is the term to describe slowing rewarding behaviors that progressively get closer to the desired behavior?
Shaping
At what age does Piaget state we learn abstract logic/reasoning.
Bonus 100pt: If you can name the stage
12+ Years old,
Bonus: Formal Operational
Provide at least (4) four examples in the ethical standards used in human research?
Informed consent, no force should be used
Protect from harm and discomfort
Maintain confidentiality
Debriefing
IRB
What are the two major subdivisions of the nervous system?
Central Nervous System (Brain and Spinal Cord)
Peripheral Nervous System (Everything else)
This word is used to describe how we have the tendency to see the "whole" in perception.
Gestalt (Psychology)
Mr. Carlson decides to postpone a cumulative final in his AP Psych class. His students then tell him that he is their favorite teacher. What is the Operant Conditioning technique being used by the students?
Positive Reinforcement
If someone avoids doing bad things because they do not want to be punished, which stage of moral development are they at?
Bonus 100pts: Who is responsible for this theory?
Pre-Conventional
Bonus: Lawrence Kohlberg
What is selective attention and is the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.
Damage to which brain area would create the most difficulty in interpreting feelings of heat and cold?
Sensory Cortex
Ms. Grace is telling her friend what she did over summer vacation when she discovers she cannot think of a specific word that she would like to say. She stops telling the story, because she has the distinct feeling that she is about to be able to think of the word if she waits just a moment. This is an example of:
What is tip-of-the-tongue effect?
This Psychologist proposed that connections leading to satisfying outcomes are strengthened while those leading to unsatisfying outcomes are weakened. Who is this psychologist and what is their theory?
Who is Edward Thorndike proposed the "Law of Effect"?
This term explains why children cannot see outside of themselves. If they know it, everyone knows it.
Egocentrism