1. AIM: AP Psychology 1 st Quarter Interim Review DO NOW: Take out your review sheets, get into groups of 5…MOVE YOUR DESKS TOGETHER!

2. Which psychologists believed in the power of the unconscious?

3. Sigmund Freud (psychoanalytic)

4. The belief that our behavior is impacted by our need for survival is what perspective?

5. Evolutionary

6. The perspective concerned with observable responses is

7. Behavioral

8. Humanistic psychologists are concerned with

9. Human potential and growth

10. Define psychology

11. The study of behavior and mental processes

12. Which psychologists is most concerned with how we INTERPRET our experiences?

13. Cognitive

14. Psychologists concerned with brain chemistry are which perspective?

15. Biological

16. I’m feeling tense and anxious. What type of psychologists should I call?

17. Clinical

18. If I study children as they age, what type of psychologist am I?

19. Developmental

20. Social Psychologists study…

21. How we think about, influence, and relate to people

22. Define hindsight bias

23. Seeing an outcome as obvious based on what has occurred

24. What is critical thinking?

25. Questioning, Analyzing,

26. Studying shy versus outgoing people would be the focus of what type of psychologists?

27. Personality Psychologists

28. What does it mean to operationalize a variable?

29. Specify how we are measuring something.

30. What is a case study?

31. Studying one person in depth

32. As your age increases, the amount of exercise you do decreases. What type of correlation is this?

33. Negative correlation

34. Observing children on a playground to see how they interact is what type of research method?

35. Naturalistic Observation

36. What is an illusory correlation?

37. Seeing a correlation where none exists

38. If I want to find out the opinion of a large group of people, what research method would be best?

39. Survey

40. Manipulating factors is part of what research method?

41. Experiments

42. What technique do you use to ensure you get a representative sample?

43. Random Sampling

44. What measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme scores?

45. MEAN

46. Describe a control group

47. They are not receiving the experimental treatment

48. Random Assignment ensures that…

49. Participants in groups are equal/ minimize differences between participants

50. What does statistical significance show?

51. Results are not due to chance

52. The APA believes that you should explain your research to participants when its completed. This is called

53. Debriefing

54. Solomon Asch studied ______

55. Conformity

56. Why do we have attribution theory?

57. To explain others’ behavior

58. What is the fundamental attribution error?

59. Overestimate the personal disposition Underestimate the situational influence

60. What is Deindividuation?

61. Losing self awareness in a group

62. A desire for harmony in a decision making group can lead to what social psychology phenomenon?

63. Groupthink

64. The discomfort we feel when two thoughts are inconsistent is ____

65. Cognitive Dissonance

66. Prejudice is an _____ Stereotypes are _______ Discrimination is _______

67. Attitude/Feeling Thought Action

68. Aggression always involves what?

69. An intent to hurt

70. What does the bystander effect say?

71. We are less likely to help when they are lots of people present than if we are alone.

72. The Mere Exposure effect is related to SIMALARITY OR PROXIMITY

73. Proximity

74. What does the frustration aggression principle state?

75. When we are prevented from achieving a goal (frustrated) we will act aggressively

76. Social Exchange theory says our behavior is guided by ____

77. The weighing of costs and benefits

78. What is a social trap?

79. Pursuing our own self interest will lead to collective harm

80. What path does an action potential follow?

81. Dendrites, cell body, axon

82. What is the function of dendrites?

83. Receive signals from other neurons

84. Where is the synapse located?

85. Between two neurons

86. What is an action potential?

87. Electrical charge that tells a neuron to fire

88. Neurotransmitters are chemical or electrical?

89. Chemical

90. ANY FINAL QUESTIONS???