<p>Has anyone taken the Practice Exam from College Board ?
The Question I refer to is a picture of the brain stem, and an arrow is pointing to the Pons. The next question it asks what does this thing with the arrow do?
Pons help balance, but the answer was something related to memories, and a bunch of other things.</p>
<p>Pons: sleep and arousal. it connects brain stem and cerebellum but does nothing with balance though, at least that's what i believe. cerebellum is balance</p>
<p>cognitive dissonance, part of Leon Festinger's dissonance theory saying that people change cognitions to reduce tension from cognitive dissonance. cognitive dissonance is when related thoughts/actions are inconsistent or contradict each other. it's like when you say "whoever wears that hideous shirt must be a dork" and you see the guy/girl you like wearing it the next day. this leads to an internal tension/conflict. in order to reduce that tension, you change your opinion either about the shirt. two other examples are Carlsmith's experiment that pay people to lie and when people exhibit "effort justification" (I waited three hours for the ride. therefore, it was great)</p>
<p>Quick question:</p>
<p>Anyone know the scale for the psychology test? Tentatively?</p>
<p>not sure. if you get around 100 for raw score, out of 150, you're getting a 5 probably.</p>
<p>what's the different between antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs?</p>
<p>^Anti depressants lower depression</p>
<p>As you can see, I am going to fail this test.</p>
<p>@pevee
antidepressant drugs stimulate neurotransmitter, chiefly serotonin.
antipsychotic drugs are inhibitors that calm the activity of neurotransmitters, namely serotonin/dopamine(?)</p>
<p>Q: What would a humanistic psychologist most likely think?
A. all humans have peak experiences
B. all humans are by nature good</p>
<p>pretty much.
antidepressant drugs are the ones used for depression. they usually inhibit serotonin reuptake and hence increase the level of serotonin to help people get out of the depression phase.
antipsychotic drugs are used for schizophrenic patients to control hyperactivity, hallucination, delusion and all those good stuff. decrease level of dopamine. can induce tardive dyskinesia, which is a milder form of parkinson's disease.</p>
<p>describe Freud's psychoanalytic therapy</p>
<p>Freud's psychoanalytic therapy got its info from the client by using methods such as free association. (I dont know much after this...)</p>
<p>guys... anyone here..???</p>
<p>Q1: What would a humanistic psychologist most likely think?
A. all humans have peak experiences
B. all humans are by nature good
Q2: COmpare cross sectional vs longitudinal study
Q3: name 2 types of amnesia</p>
<p>psychoanalytic therapy: free association, dream interpretation: manifest and latent content of dreams, resistance: client refuse to believe what the therapist said, transference: client transfer (the conflicted) relation they have with someone on to the therapist (ex: you grow to develop feelings for the therapist, mimicking the unresolved, unconscious feeling you have for someone else)</p>
<p>Q1: B
Q2: cross sectional: study people of different age. longitudinal: study the same group of people over a period of time
Q3: retroactive: forget what happened in the past (Bourne Identity scenerio). anteroactive: can't make new memory after the onset of amnesia (50 First Dates scenerio)</p>
<p>Q1:
I would go with "A" because figures like Rogers and Maslow (hiearchy of needs) focused on the idea that humans are in constant attempt in fulfilling basic needs in order to reach a higher sense of achievement/fulfillment, thus they will ultimately have peak experiences...
Haha, that may be a stretch. Anyone feel free to disagree with anything I just said, ..I haven't really studied..yet.=/</p>
<p>^yep. Studying methods now....</p>
<p>Peevee, why would it be B</p>
<p>And..Kowloon, do you know the right answer?</p>
<p>^for Q3, it was retrograde amnesia (cant remember the past) and anterograde amnesia (cant make new memory)</p>
<p>btw, Q1 was B. I was heavily debating this, but then I remembered Maslow saying that the vast majority of people never reach the "self-actualization" stage.</p>
<p>sorry about the amnesia one, i was mixing it up with "interference" :P i'll edit it so people won't get confused</p>
<p>i always remember humanist as the more "hippie" and optimistic one. i wasn't sure what it means by "peak experiences" either.</p>
<p>Next questions:
Q1: What chemicals are involved in the action potential of a neuron? (I know, hard question, but came out in my school mock, and I dont know answr)
a. sodium and potassium
b. potassium and calcium</p>
<p>Q2: Human vestibular sense is most closely associated with the
a. semicircular canals
b. olfactory bulb
c. rods and cones.</p>
<p>Q3: Weber's Law?
Q4: What did Thorndike theorize?
Q5: Barbituate drugs... what do they do?</p>
<p>Q1:
a. sodium and potassium.
sodium rushes in the neuron in a wave of depolarization as potassium follows by rushing out.</p>
<p>Si?</p>
<p>Q1 is definitely sodium and potassium. I remember that from AP Bio two years ago. :P</p>
<p>Q2 is a, semicircular canals. Vestibular sense is the sense of motion and balance, and that's controlled by stuff in the ear.</p>
<p>Don't know the rest.</p>
<p>I remember sodium and potassium by thinking of salty bananas. :-)</p>
<p>Hey can someone help me figure something out?</p>
<p>So, 66% of the test is scored from the MC, and the other 33% is Free Reponse, right?</p>
<p>Well..how many total points can you receive out of the Free Response? Because I've read past FRQ's and it seems weird in that it'd be hard to achieve a large deal of points because the questions are straightforward so there's no need for in depth elaboration on some parts...</p>
<p>I just don't understand how the AP Psych scoring works.
Is it like Ap Biology, in that you can write as much as you can possibly think of and they'll give you points for what you get right and if you get something wrong, they won't count off? (well, unless you contradict yourself).</p>