AP Psychology: Meme Review

AP Psychology memes make learning fun! Review key terms and concepts.

Who is the man in the photo? H.M. Phineas Gage Oliver Sacks Genie Wiley A psychologist uses this man's injury as an opportunity to study the effects of brain damage on personality. What type of research method is this? Correlational study Experiment Case study Naturalistic observation Why is this type of research method used only on rare occasions? Who is the man in the photo? Sigmund Freud Carl Jung Wilhelm Wundt Abraham Maslow What is the other name for psychoanalysis? What is the focus of this psychological perspective? Psychotherapy; the unconscious Psychotherapy; learned behaviors Psychodynamics; the unconscious Psychodynamics: thinking about thinking Whose theory of personality is referenced here? Ivan Pavlov Erik Erikson Carl Jung Sigmund Freud Write a description of each of the three parts of the mind identified by Freud. Id Ego Superego Who is the man referenced in the meme? John B. Watson Edward Thorndike Ivan B. Pavlov Albert Bandura What term describes the phenomenon that occurred in this experiment? observational learning operant conditioning classical conditioning modeling Summarize Pavlov's famous experiment in complete sentences. Match the classical conditioning terms to the correct part of Pavlov's experiment. Unconditioned Stimulus (US) Presentation of food (before experiment) Unconditioned Response (UR) Salivation (in response to food) Neutral Stimulus (NS) Bell (before experiment) Conditioned Stimulus (CS) Bell (after experiment) Conditioned Response (CR) Salivation (in response to bell) Who is the man pictured in the meme (not Yoda)? Ivan Pavlov B.F. Skinner Edward Thorndike William James This man is considered the father of which type of conditioning? classical operant Explain what reinforcement means in conditioning. How are classical and operant conditioning DIFFERENT? In operant conditioning, what does POSITIVE mean? Give an example of positive reinforcement (can't use the one in the meme). Who is the man referenced in the meme? Noam Chomsky Alfred Binet William Schachter John B. Watson What experiment is he referring to? Bobo Doll Study Stanford Prison Experiment Little Albert Experiment Baby Harry Study Summarize what happened in the experiment. What made this experiment ethically questionable? Label the parts of the neuron with the following terms:terminal branchesnucleusdendritessomamyelin sheathnode of RanvierSchwann cell nucleus soma dendrites terminal branches node of Ranvier Schwann cell myelin sheath Which of the following presents the correct order of a neural impulse traveling along a neuron? soma, axon, terminal branches dendrites, synapse, axon synapse, axon, dendrites dendrites, axon, soma How does action potential work? Describe it. Who was Alfred Binet and what was his contribution to psychology? A person's mental ability expressed as the age at which an average person reaches the same ability is called: mental set cognitive bias mental age IQ Why does this meme refer to Wilhelm Wundt as "Psychology's Baby Daddy"? Which psychological perspective did Wundt belong to? structuralism functionalism introspection humanism psychodynamics What was the main idea of this perspective? Which part of the brain is mentioned here? What is its function? Broca's area; interpretation of speech Broca's area; production of speech Broca's area; sound interpretation Wernicke's area; understanding speech Broca's aphasia is sometimes confused with Wernicke's aphasia. How are the two different? Do NOT say, "one affects Broca's area and the other impacts Wernicke's area"....... What is the function of the amygdala? regulation of hormones visual processing verbal processing emotional perception How does the amygdala relate to memory? What does GABA stand for? Gamma-arterial butyric acid Gamma-aminobutyric acid Glutamic aminobutyric acid Glutamic adrenalbutyric acetate What is the function of GABA? excitatory NT regulates alertness inhibitory NT memory processor Which disorders are associated with GABA malfunctioning? depressive disorders Parkinsonism and Schizophrenia OCD, eating disorders Anxiety disorders, Insomnia What is the function of serotonin? affects mood, hunger, arousal influences movement and attention enables learning and memory major excitatory NT What is the function of dopamine? affects attention and emotion promotes memory and learning major inhibitory NT influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion What disorder is associated with a malfunction of serotonin? depression seizures anxiety insomnia What disorders are associated with a malfunction of dopamine? Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Parkinson's and schizophrenia Schizophrenia and OCD OCD and insomnia Explain the maxim "correlation does not imply causation". What is a correlational study? How is it different from an experiment? What is the definition of hindsight bias? tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs process where scientists performing research influence the results selection of individuals in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved tendency to overestimate our ability to have predicted an outcome that could not possibly have been predicted Give an example of hindsight bias that relates to you. What is the function of the cerebellum? language comprehension visual perception consciousness posture and balance What does it look like if someone damages their cerebellum? What is the main idea of cognitive psychology? How genetics, brain structure, and body chemistry affect behavior How mental processes affect behavior How social interaction affects behavior How behavior is changed under different conditions Which psychologist developed a famous theory of cognitive development? Erik Erikson Lawrence Kohlberg Jean Piaget Albert Bandura Dreams occur during which stage of sleep? NREM-1 NREM-2 NREM-3 REM Describe Freud's dream theory of unconscious wish fulfillment. What is the difference between manifest and latent content? What does REM stand for? Regulation of Emotion and Memory Rapid Eye Movement Reverse Experience Memory Rapid Eye Manipulation What is another term for REM sleep? paradoxical sleep NREM-1 sleep Stage 3 sleep Stage 4 sleep What is REM rebound? Why would having a small sample size be bad? What does standard deviation measure? What is it used for? Which gland is controlled by the hypothalamus? thyroid gland adrenal gland pituitary gland The hypothalamus is part of the: Midbrain Brainstem Forebrain What is selective attention? detection of stimuli below absolute threshold analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain the minimum stimulation to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time the capacity for or process of reacting to certain stimuli when several occur simultaneously How might selective attention help you to improve your academic performance in school? What is self-actualization? This term relates to which psychological perspective and theory? Psychodynamics; Hierarchy of Needs Humanist; Hierarchy of Needs Behaviorist; Self-fulfillment Cognitive; Self-fulfillment Which psychologist developed this theory? Erik Erikson Noam Chomsky Abraham Maslow Carl Jung Which of the following best describes confirmation bias? paying attention to information that matches the beliefs we already have researcher unconsciously behaves so as to make research fit with their expectations "I knew it all along" phenomenon assuming that all members of a group share the same characteristics Give an example of confirmation bias that relates to you.