Psychology Unit Four Exam Review
Psychology Unit Four Exam Review
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Unit One: Psychology History and Research
- What are psychologists interested in studying?
- What makes psychology a science?
- Why is Wilhelm Wundt considered the father of psychology?
- What is confirmation bias?
- What is participant bias?
- What is a case study?
- What is an independent variable?
- What are the four basic principles of ethics in psychological studies?
- What does it mean when a result is statistically significant?
- What are mean, median, mode, and range?
Unit Two: The Nervous System, Brain, Sensation, and Perception
- What are neurons?
- What are neurotransmitters?
- What is the longest part of a neuron?
- Which part of the brain controls life-supporting functions?
- What is the Broca’s area?
- What is the definition of sensation?
- What is the absolute threshold?
- What are the two types of receptor cells in the retina?
- How is sound produced?
- What does the cochlea change sound waves into?
- Which two sensations interact to produce flavor?
- What are the four basic skin senses?
- What is the emphasis of Gestalt psychology?
- What is the Ames Room illusion?
- Why do psychologists use the visual cliff?
Unit Three: Development, Learning, and Language
- What is an embryo?
- What are teratogens?
- Harlow’s monkey study proved that baby monkeys form emotional attachments to their “mothers” by doing what?
- What begins and end adolescence?
- Lawrence Kohlberg studied ______development.
- What is a social clock?
- When do we reach our physical peak?
- What is menopause?
- What is a stimulus?
- What are the components and process of classical conditioning?
- Know the details of Pavlov’s and Watson’s classical conditioning experiments.
- What is operant conditioning?
- Which reinforcement schedule is known as the “gambler’s schedule”?
Unit Four: Social Psychology
- What is situational attribution?
- What is dispositional attribution?
- What is the fundamental attribution error?
- Know the details of Zimbardo’s and Milgram’s experiments.
- What is cognitive dissonance theory?
- What plays the biggest factor in determining who your friends will be?
- What are the three ingredients for attraction?
- What is altruism?
- How have standards of beauty changed throughout time?