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1. A famous experiment conducted at Yale in the early 1960’s prompted the APA to come up
with a code of ethics. Who was the experimenter and what was he studying?
2. A psychologist uses the double-blind technique in her research design in order to avoid what
two things?
3. According to Piaget, which two processes adjust or control a schema?
4. After trying and failing to succeed over and over again, eventually a person just stops trying.
Give the concept and theorist associated with this research.
5. Alfred Binet developed procedures to identify school children who might require special
help. What two aspects did Binet compare to establish intelligence.
6. Beginning at the bottom, list Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
7. Draw and label a scatterplot for the following types of correlations: positive, negative, no
correlation
8. Explain the difference between applied research and basic research.
9. Explain the difference between the positions of B.F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky on
language development
10. Hans and Sybil Eysneck represented the personality as a combination of two basic
dimensions. Name these dimensions.
11. How do Prozac and other SSRI’s work at the synapse?
12. Identify the primary area of research of each of the following social psychologists: Milgram,
Asch, Zimbardo
13. In Fritz Heider’s attribution theory, which two types of attributions do we make when
explaining others’ behavior?
14. In operant conditioning, how does punishment differ from negative reinforcement?
15. In the initial acquisition stage of teaching a dog a new trick, what reinforcement schedule will
be used to establish the behavior?
16. Julian Rotter’s theory emphasizes what aspects of people’s lives?
17. Julie’s therapist tells her to relax, close her eyes, and state aloud whatever comes to mind
no matter how trivial or absurd. Name this technique. What type of psychologist is most
known for using this technique?
18. List the major perspectives of psychology.
19. List the four types of schedules of partial reinforcement for Operant Conditioning.
20. List three factors, identified by psychological research, that influence interpersonal
attraction.
21. List seven types of learning
22. List, in order, Lawerence Kohlberg’s levels of moral development.
23. List, in order, the four stages of Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.
24. List, in order, the three stages of prenatal development.
25. Name each of the 6 major divisions and subdivisions of the nervous system.
26. Name each of the four lobes of the cerebral cortex.
27. Name Erik Erikson’s psychosocial conflict for each of the following ages: Infancy,
Adolescence, Late Adulthood
28. Name five brain imaging techniques.
29. Name the defense mechanisms.
30. Name the monocular depth cues in vision.
31. Name Gardner’s multiple intelligences.
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32. Name the Big Five personality traits.

33. Name the stages children go through in the development of language.
34. Name the three language centers of the brain.
35. Name the three sensations that skin detects.
36. Name the visual receptor systems in the retina and what each is used for.
37. Name the different parenting styles.
38. Name Gestalt’s Laws of Perceptual Organization.
39. Name the five major categories of psychoactive drugs.
40. Name the psychoanalytic therapy techniques.
41. Name the structures of the Limbic System.
42. Name five types of anxiety disorders.
43. Name nine types of obstacles to problem-solving.
44. Name three ways we encode information.
45. Name two personality concepts emphasized by the Humanist Carl Rogers.
46. Name two research-based projective personality tests.
47. Name two theories of hearing pitch.
48. Name five types heuristics.
49. Name which neurotransmitter is involved in the following illnesses: Schizophrenia,
Alzheimer’s Disease, and Major Depression
50. The Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
What percentage of the population will receive scores between 85 and 115? What percent
will fall 2 standard deviations from the mean?
51. Trace a neural impulse through a neuron from beginning to end by naming the structures of
a neuron.
52. What are the four goals of psychology?
53. What are the three measures of central tendency and one measure of variation.
54. What are the two senses that monitor our body positioning and movement?
55. What are three of the most accepted theories of emotion.
56. What are the major theories explaining hypnosis?
57. What are the theories of color vision?
58. What did John Garcia’s research on taste aversion add to our understanding of Classical
Conditioning?
59. What is the difference between obsessions and compulsions?
60. Which disorder is most likely to be treated with electro-convulsive therapy? What is possible
side-effect of ECT?
61. Who developed the first Psychology laboratory? In what country? What year?
62. Why do you randomly sample in an experiment?
63. Why is REM sleep known as paradoxical sleep
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68%, 95%
Acoustic, Semantic, Visual
Amygdala, Hippocampus, Hypothalamus
(or) Septum
Applied Research is used to solve real-
world problems. Basic is used to expand
the knowledge base.
Assimilation, Accommodation
Associative, Observational, Latent,
Classical Conditioning, Operant
Conditioning, Social Learning, Modeling,
Vicarious
Authoritarian/Dictatorial, Permissive,
Authoritative/Democratic,
Neglecting/Rejecting
Babbling, One-word Stage, Two-word
Stage
Blocks the reuptake of serotonin
Brain/Internal body systems active, Large
muscles/body inactive
Broca’s Area, Wernicke’s Area, Angular
Gyrus
Cannon Bard, James-Lange, Schachter-
Singer or “two stages” or Cognitive,
Opponent Process
Central, Peripheral, Somatic (Skeletal),
Autonomic, Sympathetic, Parasympathetic
Central: Mean, Median, Mode, Variation:
Range, Standard Deviation
Continuous Reinforcement
Dendrite, Soma(cell body), Axon (may
include myelin sheath), Axon
Terminal(synaptic button, synaptic knob,
terminal buttons, synaptic terminals,
terminal end)
Depressants, Stimulants, Hallucinogens /
Psychedelics
Describe, Explain, Predict, Control
Dispositional (personality/internal),
Situational (external)
EEG, MEG, MRI, CT Scan/CAT Scan, PET
Scan
Evolutionary/Biological predisposition in
learning
Extraverted-Introverted, Neurotic-Stable
Fixation, confirmation bias,
overconfidence, heuristics, framing, belief
perseverance, mental set, functional
fixedness, belief bias
Fixed Interval, Fixed Ratio, Variable
Interval, Variable Ratio
Free association, interpretation of dreams,
analysis of transference, Thematic
Apperception Test (TAT),
Rorschach/Inkblot Test, hypnosis, analysis
of slips of the tongue, projective testing
Free Association, Psychoanalysis
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital
Infancy: Trust vs. Mistrust, Adolescence:
Identity vs. Role Confusion, Late
Adulthood: Integrity vs. Despair
Internal or External, Locus of Control
Kinesthetic, Vesibular
Laws of: Proximity, Similarity, Continuity,
Closure, Connectedness, Good Figure,
Common Fate, Figure Ground
Learned Helplessness, Martin Seligmen
Linguistic, Logical/Mathematical, Musical,
Spatial, Bodily/Kinesthetic, Interpersonal,
Intrapersonal, Naturalist
Major Depression, Memory Loss
Means-end Analysis, Hill-climbing, Sub-
goals, Availability Heuristic,
Representative Heuristic
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Mental Age, Chronological Age
Milgrim: obedience to authority, Asch:
conformity, Zimbardo: social roles or role
playing
Observer bias, experimenter bias,
Hawthorne effect, participant bias, subject
bias
Obsessions: recurring thoughts, create
anxiety - Compulsions: recurring
behaviors, reduce anxiety
OCD, Panic Attacks, Phobias, Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized
Anxiety Disorder
Openness, Conscientiousness,
Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
(emotional stability)
Pain, Pressure, Temperature (warm/cold)
physiological, safety, belongingness and
love, esteem, self-actualization
Positive: Clusters from bottom left to top
right., Negative: Clusters from top left to
bottom right. , None: Points are scattered
without pattern.
Pre-conventional, Conventional, Post-
conventional
Proximity/Exchange( mere exposure
effect), Similarity, Physical Attractiveness
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic,
Behavioral, Cognitive,
Neuroscience/Biological, Socio-cultural,
Evolutionary, Humanistic, Behavior-
Genetics
Punishment decreases the behavior., Neg.
Reinforcement increases the rate of
operant responding (behavior).
reaction formation, repression,
displacement, sublimation, rationalization,
projection, denial, undoing, regression,
intellectualization, identification
relative brightness/relative motion, aerial
perspective, relative clarity, relative height,
linear perspective, superposition,
interposition, texture gradient, shadowing,
overlapping
Rods and Cones = both used for
transduction, Rods = black and white,
general detail, or dim light, Cones = color,
detail or bright light
Role Theory, Social-Cognitive Theory,
State Theory, Divided Consciousness,
Trance Theory, Neo-Dissociative
Rorschach/Inkblot, Thematic Apperception
Test (TAT), Draw A Person
Schizophrenia: Dopamine, Alzheimer’s
Disease: ACH, Depression: Serotonin
OR Norepinephrine
Self-concept, unconditional positive
regard, ideal vs. real self, client or person-
centered therapy, active listening, self-
actualization, fully functioning, genetic
blueprint
Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete
Operational, Formal Operational
Skinner: reinforcement imitation,
environmental factors, Chomsky:
Language Acquisition Device, Innate
Stanley Milgrim, Obedience
To ensure that all members of the
population are represented equally., To
generalize to your population.
Trichromatic/Young-Helmholtz,
Hering/Opponent-Process Two Stage
Volley Principle/Frequency, Place Theory
Wundt, Germany, 1879
Zygote (zygotic), Embryo (embryonic),
Fetus (fetal)