History
Research
Statistics
Units 2-5
Units 6-9
100
This perspective focuses on the unconscious mind and past traumatic experiences
Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic
100
Studying one person or a small group of people in great detail
Case Study
100
What is the median for the following data set?
98, 86, 88, 92, 76, 68, 93, 89, 90
The median is 89!
68, 76, 86, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 98
100
When you remember something "off the top of the head" without any hints or memory cues
Recall
100
We are motivated by our need to avoid boredom and keep our brains stimulated
Arousal theory
200
A perspective that explains behaviors through the body and brain
Biological
200
My research study is going to collect data on how many students choose to socialize at lunch time versus being on their phones. What type of research method would I use?
Naturalistic Observation
200
What kind of correlation is this?
Strong, negative
200
The part of the brain responsible for hunger, thirst, temperature, and other maintenance functions
Hypothalamus
200
Proposing a smaller request before a bigger one (hint: advertisements!)
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
300
The first woman to become APA President, previously denied a Ph. D. in Psychology
Mary Calkins
300
A variable in an experiment that is not accounted for and could potentially influence the results of the study
Confounding Variable
300
What can we tell about the strength of the relationship AND direction of the variables for a correlation coefficient of +.32?
Weak, variables going in the same direction (positive)
300
The inability to notice something right in front of you
Inattentional blindness
300
Name the cognitive, psychosocial, and moral stages of development you are currently in as adolescents!
Formal operational, identity vs role confusion, and conventional morality
400
The main difference between Wilhelm Wundt and earlier philosophers like Socrates or Plato is ____
He established the first psychology laboratory where he was able to gather and analyze behavioral data
400
The difference between an experiment and a correlation is ____
Experiments control for variables to provide statistically significant causal relationships; whereas correlations analyze relationships without manipulating any variables
400
The bias that we think we could have predicted an outcome, even after the results were revealed
"I knew it all along"
Hindsight Bias
400
Personal memories, like your birthday party or your favorite memory with grandma, are called:
Episodic
400
The need to satisfy your physiological needs (hunger, thirst, shelter) before then working toward your psychological needs (education, career, love and belonging)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
500
The idea that we see things as a whole, rather than the smaller parts is called ______; which was developed by _________.
Functionalism; William James
500
Provide an operational definition of aggression
Examples:
Number of hits and kicks
Volume in decibels of someone's voice
Self-report on a scale of 1-5 for anger
500
Farah wants to know where she stands in her AP Psych class compared to her classmates. Her teacher tells her the class average is a 76% with a standard deviation of 6. Farah checked her grades: she has an 88%!
Draw the normal distribution for Farah's class. How does she compare to her classmates? Provide 2 pieces of evidence.
Above Average!
1) Farah has a Z-Score of +2 for this trip, which is well above the class average.
2) Only about 2% of students currently have a higher grade than her - OR about 98% of students have lower grades than her.
500
Peter was walking through a park when he caught the scent of freshly baked cookies from a nearby bakery. His mouth started watering. He went home to make himself a sandwich right away (and of course some cookies for dessert). That park must have a spell on him because every time he walks in the park, he gets hungry!
UCS: Scent of cookies
UCR: Salivation, mouth watering
NS/CS: Walking in the park
CR: Hunger
500
Identify one diagnosis and one appropriate treatment for this diagnosis:
Sarah has been struggling with unexplained memory lapses and finding items in her apartment that she doesn't remember buying. Concerned, Sarah seeks help from a therapist, revealing that she experiences blackouts and sometimes feels like she's watching her life from the outside. Her therapist discovers various personalities, or alters, that emerge during her session.
Dissociative Identity Disorder;