Official AP Psychology Review Thread

<p>Ok, so you post a question, next person answers it and posts another question. </p>

<p>Name 3 major symptoms of schizophrenia.</p>

<p>delusion, hallucination, disordered thoughts</p>

<p>Where does transduction occur in the eye?</p>

<p>Transduction occurs in the retina.</p>

<p>Who created the term of inferiority complex?</p>

<p>Yeah…I signed up for this test and haven’t self studied a single thing. I’m going to cram the entire book the night before. :)</p>

<p>Inferiority complex = Adler</p>

<p>What are the stages in Kohlberg’s moral ladder?</p>

<p>pre, conventional, post</p>

<p>What is the principal of Operant Conditioning and who pioneered it’s discovery?</p>

<p>Operant conditioning is behaviors associate with their consequences (reward or punishment). B.F. Skinner was very involved in operant conditioning.</p>

<p>What is belief perseverance?</p>

<p>even if your initial belief is proven wrong, you will still retain that belief</p>

<p>Explain Maslow’s hierarchy of needs</p>

<p>Explain Maslow’s hierarchy of needs</p>

<p>shows in what order we go after or need certain things
think pyramid…the bottom being the basic, survival level, top being the “thriving” level</p>

<p>bottom to top in 5 tiers: physiological needs, safety/security, social needs (love and belonging), self-esteem, self-actualization</p>

<p>Explain the steps of the General Adaptation Syndrome</p>

<p>Alarm reaction, resistance, exhaustion.</p>

<p>What’s schemata?</p>

<p>plural of schema, a schema is a cognitive system people develop to explain natural phenomena (i.e. a schema of dogs would include fur, tail wagging, and a drooling tongue) </p>

<p>Name Freud’s stages of psychosexual development.</p>

<p>I think it’s:

  1. Oral Stage
  2. Anal Stage
  3. Phallic Stage
    (Latent Stage between)
  4. Genital Stage</p>

<p>What would the biopsychological way/method be for treating depression?</p>

<p>They would give the person like drugs such as Prozac to treat the depression somatically (bodily).</p>

<p>What is Weber’s Law?</p>

<p>The Just Noticeable Difference is always proportional to the size of the stimulus</p>

<p>Sarah is going to the psychologist for a fear of clowns. What types of therapy could a behaviorist employ to cure her phobia?</p>

<p>To cure Sarah’s phobia, systematic desentization would be the best kind of therapy for a behaviorist to do.</p>

<p>Ive slacked off all year in this class and we took the 2004 AP test and I got a 4…so…yea.</p>

<p>Flooding and counterconditioning could also be used to cure Sarah’s phobia.</p>

<p>Which neo-freudian psychologist created the idea of everyone having a shared unconscious?</p>

<p>Carl Jung created the idea of a shared unconscious (that people across cultures had like similar thoughts/experiences that they don’t even know about)</p>

<p>What is the difference between accomodation and assimilation in terms of Piaget’s principles?</p>

<p>Carl Jung, right? </p>

<p>Which theory states that the frequencies we hear depend on where the hairs are located in the cochlea?</p>

<p>woops… but to MCV</p>

<p>accomodation is changing schemas to incorporate new info, while assimilation is incorporating new info into existing schemata</p>