AP Psychology Review

Wads

Chapter 2: 5-3-1 Protocol

5-List and describe briefly the stages of the scientific method

3-List/describe 3 variables

1-List 1 positive/1 negative of case studies

Chapter 3A: 3-2-2 Protocol

3-List 3 parts of a neuron

2-List 2 types of neurotransmitters and their functions

2-List two divisions in the autonomic nervous system and their functions

Chapter 3B: 4-3-2 Protocol

4-List (with their major functions) the 4 major regions of the cerebral cortex

3-List the three main “layers of the brain”

2-List the 2 biggest things the hippocampus is involved in (hint: think, remember…ah, I cannot, I am so mad)

Chapter 4: 8-4-2 Protocol

8-List and describe the 8 human senses

4-List and describe 4 of the 6 Gestalt laws of perception

2-List and describe the 2 thresholds we have in sensation

Chapter 5: 3-2-1 Protocol

3-List and briefly describe the 3 levels of consciousness

2-Tell me two truths about REM sleep

1-Tell me 1 truth/1 myth about dreams and dreaming

Chapter 6: 3-5-4-2 Protocol

3-List/describe 3 types of learning

5-list/describe briefly the 5 necessary parts for classical conditioning

4-List the 4 possible contingencies (consequences) in operant conditioning

2-List 2 (of 4) problems with using punishment as a learning tool

Chapter 7A: 3-3-2-2 Protocol

3-List/describe the functions of memory

3-List/describe the 3 stages of memory

2-List/describe the 2 parts of declarative memory (in long term memory)

2-List 2 (or more) of Schacters 7 sins of forgetting

Chapter 7B: 3-2-1 Protocol

3-list/describe 3 types of bias

2-List/describe the 2 types of concepts (dealing with language and thinking)

1-Describe 1 way of problem solving

Chapter 8:4-2-2 Protocol

4-List/describe the 4 components of emotion

2-list/describe 2 different theories of emotion

2-List/describe 2 different theories of motivation

Chapter 93-2-1 Protocol

3-List/describe 3 of Piaget’s stages of development

2-List/describe 2 of Erikson’s stages of development

1-List 1 of Kubler-Ross’ 5 stages of dying

Chapter 103-2-1 Protocol

3-List/describe the 3 parts of the mind, according to Freud

2-List/describe 2 types of “projective” tests

Describe one difference between Freud and the Neo-Freudian Carl Jung

Chapter 113-2-1 Protocol

3-List the 3 components (with a description) of Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of intelligence

2-List 2 qualities all of your tests/studies must have

1-List/describe 1 of Gardner’s multiple intelligences

Chapter 123-2-3-2 Protocol

3-List/describe the 3 classic symptoms of psychological pathologies

2-List/describe 2 different anxiety disorders

3-List/describe 3 different dissociative disorders

2-List/describe 2 types of schizophrenia

Chapter 133-3-1 Protocol

3-List/describe 3 insight therapies

3-List/describe 3 behavior therapies

1-list one possible downside of using medication to treat psycho pathologies

Chapter 144-2-1 Protocol

4-List 4 factors that promote conformity

3-List 3 (of the 4) sources of reward that support the Reward Theory of Attraction

2-List/ 2 cognitive attribution errors (one about ourselves, one about others)