Psychology Unit Four Exam Review

Psychology Unit Four Exam Review

<p> Psychology Unit Four Exam Review</p><p>You may use a notecard for this exam with handwritten notes from your reviews.</p><p>Unit One: Psychology History and Research</p><p>1. What are psychologists interested in studying?</p><p>2. What makes psychology a science?</p><p>3. Why is Wilhelm Wundt considered the father of psychology?</p><p>4. What is confirmation bias?</p><p>5. What is participant bias?</p><p>6. What is a case study?</p><p>7. What is an independent variable?</p><p>8. What are the four basic principles of ethics in psychological studies?</p><p>9. What does it mean when a result is statistically significant?</p><p>10. What are mean, median, mode, and range?</p><p>Unit Two: The Nervous System, Brain, Sensation, and Perception</p><p>11. What are neurons?</p><p>12. What are neurotransmitters?</p><p>13. What is the longest part of a neuron?</p><p>14. Which part of the brain controls life-supporting functions?</p><p>15. What is the Broca’s area?</p><p>16. What is the definition of sensation?</p><p>17. What is the absolute threshold?</p><p>18. What are the two types of receptor cells in the retina?</p><p>19. How is sound produced?</p><p>20. What does the cochlea change sound waves into?</p><p>21. Which two sensations interact to produce flavor? 22. What are the four basic skin senses?</p><p>23. What is the emphasis of Gestalt psychology?</p><p>24. What is the Ames Room illusion?</p><p>25. Why do psychologists use the visual cliff?</p><p>Unit Three: Development, Learning, and Language</p><p>26. What is an embryo?</p><p>27. What are teratogens?</p><p>28. Harlow’s monkey study proved that baby monkeys form emotional attachments to their “mothers” by doing what?</p><p>29. What begins and end adolescence?</p><p>30. Lawrence Kohlberg studied ______development.</p><p>31. What is a social clock?</p><p>32. When do we reach our physical peak?</p><p>33. What is menopause?</p><p>34. What is a stimulus?</p><p>35. What are the components and process of classical conditioning?</p><p>36. Know the details of Pavlov’s and Watson’s classical conditioning experiments.</p><p>37. What is operant conditioning?</p><p>38. Which reinforcement schedule is known as the “gambler’s schedule”?</p><p>Unit Four: Social Psychology</p><p>39. What is situational attribution? 40. What is dispositional attribution?</p><p>41. What is the fundamental attribution error?</p><p>42. Know the details of Zimbardo’s and Milgram’s experiments.</p><p>43. What is cognitive dissonance theory?</p><p>44. What plays the biggest factor in determining who your friends will be?</p><p>45. What are the three ingredients for attraction?</p><p>46. What is altruism?</p><p>47. How have standards of beauty changed throughout time?</p>

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