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AP Psychology
Semester 1 Exam Review
Directions: Using Unit notes please provide information for the following topics.
Unit 1- Prelude Chapter
1. Psychology Perspectives
- Behavioral Perspective
- Cognitive Perspective
- Neuroscience Perspective
- What would Behavior
Genetics study?
2. Famous People
- Sigmund Freud
- William James
- Charles Darwin
3. Branches of Psychology
- Developmental
- Biological
- Industrial/Organizational
- Clinical
- Psychiatry
- Contemporary
- Humanistic
- Evolutionary
4. SQ3R Model
- Cerebral Cortex and
Associated parts
-Temporal Lobe
- Broca’s Area
- Wernicke’s Area
7. What is Aphasia?
8. What is Plasticity?
Unit 4- Chapters 5 and 6
1. Parts of the Eye
- Cones
-Rods
- Fovea
2. What is Accommodation?
3. What is Weber’s Law?
4. What is the Visual Cortex?
5. Hearing
- Pitch
- Amplitude
- Hearing Sequence
- Decibels of Sound
- Basilar Membrane
- Nerve Deafness
6. What is the sense of Olfaction?
7. What are the five taste senses?
8. What is the Kinesthetic Sense?
9. What is the Gate-Control Theory?
Unit 2- Chapter 1
1. What is an experiment in
Psychology?
2. What is Hindsight Bias?
3. What is Critical Thinking?
4. What is a Hypothesis?
5. What is Naturalistic Observation?
6. What are Wording Effects?
7. What is a Random Sample?
8. What is a Correlation?
9. What is a Illusory Correlation?
Unit 5- Chapter 7
1. What is Consciousness?
2. How does the Conscious Process
work?
3. Why did Psychologist turn to
Behaviorism during the 1960s?
4. What are Hallucinations?
5. What is Meditation?
6. What states would mediation and
hallucinations are in consciousness?
7. What are reasons for Sleep?
8. What are Circadian Rhythms?
9. What is Melatonin?
10. What are Stages of Sleep?
Unit 3- Chapters 2 and 3
1. What are the parts of a Neuron?
2. What is Action Potential?
3. What is Reuptake?
4. Neurotransmitters
- Examples and what they do
5. What are different Brain Scans?
6. Parts of the Brain
- Cerebellum
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11. What was Bandura’s Bobo Doll
Experiment?
12. What are Cognitive Maps?
13. What is Latent Learning?
11. What are Sleep Spindles?
12. What is Sleep Deprivation?
13. What is Insomnia?
14. How do we overcoming Insomnia?
15. What is Hypnosis?
16. What are reactions of people under
Hypnosis?
Unit 7- Chapters 9 and 10
1. What is Encoding?
2. What are Flashbulb Memory?
3. What is the Three-Stage Processing
Model?
4. What is Working Memory?
- Where does it occur in the
brain?
5. What is Effortful Processing?
6. What are Retention Techniques?
7. What is the Serial Position Effect?
8. What is the Self-Reference Effect?
9. What is a Mnemonic Device?
10. What is a Peg-Word System?
11. What is Iconic Memory?
12. What are Availability Heuristics?
13. What is Framing?
14. What is Syntax?
Unit 6- Chapter 8
1. What was Pavlov’s Experiment?
2. Classical Conditioning
- Conditioned Response
- Generalization
- Extinction
- Spontaneous Recovery
- Taste Aversions
3. What is a Variable-Ratio?
4. What is Negative Reinforcement?
5. What is Punishment?
6. What is Intermittent Reinforcement?
7. What is Shaping?
8. What is Modeling?
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