AP Psychology Exam Structure

1. AP Psychology Exam Structure Research Methods 8-10% Biological Bases of Behavior 8-10% Cognition 8-10% Social Psychology 8-10% Abnormal Psychology 7-9% Developmental Psychology 7-9% Learning 7-9% Motivation and Emotion 6-8% Sensation and Perception 6-8% Personality 5-7% Testing and Individual Differences 5-7% Treatment of Psychological Disorders 5-7% History and Approaches 2-4% States of Consciousness 2-4%

2. Midterm Exam Structure Research Methods 8-10% Biological Bases of Behavior 8-10% Cognition 8-10% Social Psychology 8-10% Learning 7-9% Treatment of Psychological Disorders 5-7% History and Approaches 2-4% States of Consciousness 2-4%

3. Unit I: Perspectives and Treatments

5. #1: Mary has an argument with her boss, but remains calm while at work. When she gets home that evening, she yells at her spouse and children. Which defense mechanism is Mary displaying? #2: Clare complains about her job duties at work, rarely completes assigned tasks, and is regularly late for work. When she is fired, she claims it was due to her co-worker badmouthing her instead of blaming it on her own poor work performance. Which defense mechanism explains Clare's reaction?

6. Defense Mechanisms

7. Therapies #3: Jenna suffers from the nervous tic of washing her hands repeatedly and being unable to resist washing them again and again. Which perspective would explain Jenna’s hand-washing as a result of imitation and reinforcement?

8. Name the psychologist and identify which of Psychology’s perspectives they represent #4: #5:

9. #6: Annelina is frightened of water. Her therapist takes her to the beach and forces her to stand by the ocean for an hour at a time over several sessions. This therapeutic technique is called ________________________

10. Unit II: Social Psychology • Group polarization • Groupthink • Deindividuation

12. #7: Sandy loves to play pool and has become quite good at the game. Lately, she has noticed that she seems to play better when there are people watching her than when she is playing alone. This is most likely the result of ______________________

13. Social Psych Studies #8: What was Festinger testing with the $1 or $20 study?

14. #9: Who is this woman? #10: What did Darley & Latane study related to her case?

15. Unit III: Learning

16. #11: What was the Conditioned Stimulus in this experiment? #12: Name this handsome man.

18. #13 : Elizabeth’s parents want her to put her clothes in the hamper. At first, they praise her for putting the clothes together in one pile. Then they praise her for getting the clothes on the same side of the room as the hamper. When she gets the clothes on top of the hamper, she gets praise. Finally, her parents praise her when she puts her clothes in the hamper. This process is an example of _________________. #14: Liz failed her French test, so her parent told her that she could not play video games for a month. Her parents are using ______________________.

19. #15 : Dr. Lazarus tells his Psych 101 class that they can earn one extra credit point for every three reports they write summarizing an article from the professional psychology literature. What schedule of reinforcement is illustrated in this scenario?

20. #16: Martin Seligman found many similarities between his “helpless” dogs and people suffering from ______________________.

21. #17: Identify the theory demonstrated by the “BoboDoll”study.

22. Unit IV: Research & Methods

23. #18 :Provide an operational definition of “excitement”. #19: A researcher designs an experiment to test the effects of playing video games on memory. What would be the dependent variable?

24. #20: In a correlation we can not say that one variable CAUSED the change in the other variable. Correlations tell us that there is a __________________ between the variables.

25. Distributions #21: In the set of numbers 2,2,2,3,5,5,6,8,15, the median would be __________________

26. Unit V: Biological Bases of Behavior

27. #22: When the action potential reaches the end of the axon terminals, it causes the release of ________________________. #23: Which part of the neuron receives messages from other cells? #24: If you burn your finger, which of the following central nervous system components will receive the message last? a. Brain, b. spinal cord, c. afferent neurons, d. efferent neurons, e. interneurons

28. Memory? Balance? Breathing? Strong emotion?

30. #25 :Name this brain imaging technique #26: What about this one?

31. #27: If the hammer is flashed to the left visual field and the ball is to the right visual field in a split-brain patient, which hand would they use to point to a ball?

33. Unit VI: Consciousness

34. #28: Delta waves are found in the EEGs during _________ sleep and sleep spindles are found in the EEGs during _______________ sleep. #29: REM sleep is also called _____________ sleep. #30: Alcohol actually ______________ the release of GABA, a neurotransmitter that inhibits many brain functions.

35. 11. White rat 12. John Watson 13. shaping 14. Negative punish 15. Fixed Ratio 16. Depression 17. Social learning/ Modeling/observational learning 18. Heart rate, etc. 19. Memory results 20. Relationship 1. displacement 2. projection 3. Behaviorist 4. Carl Rogers: Humanist 5. Albert Ellis: Cognitive 6. Flooding / Exposure 7. Social facilitation 8. Cognitive Dissonance 9. Kitty Genovese 10. Bystander Effect

36. 21. median=5, mode=2 22. neurotransmitters 23. dendrites 24. brain 25. PET 26. MRI 27. right 28. Stage 4, stage 2 29. paradoxical 30. enhances