AP Psychology Mock Exam WITH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Chronological Order of 7 perspectives
Behavioral
Cognitive
Biological
Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Social-cultural
Evolutionary
Evolutionary psychology/psychologists
Charles Darwin
-Focus on the origins of behavior
-Traits passed down from parents for survival
-examines natural selection and how it favors behaviors that help
keep a species going from one generation to the next.
I/O psychology
Industrial/Organizational
-studies behavior in the workplace and the marketplace.
-goal is to create a better working environment and increase
production
Social Learning Theory
Albert Bandura
-Social behavior is based off of watching the actions of others
Correlations
The relationship between two variables
-Positive= one predicts presence of other
-Negative= one predicts absence of other
Experiments vs Correlations
Experiments=cause
Correlations= no cause
Illusory correlations
A correlation between two things that aren't actually connected
-Wet hair and being sick
independent variables
-Produce a change in the DV
-Manipulated by researchers
dependent variables
, -Depends on IV
inferential statistics
Determines if the data can be applied to a greater population from
the sample
measures of central tendency
Mean, Median, Mode
metaanalysis
Researchers examine the results of previous studies instead of
conducting new ones
random assignment
Every participant has an equal chance of being put in any group
reliability
When it can be repeated
-consistent
sampling bias
Errors that can occur in a study by not properly selecting
participants
scatterplots
Graph a correlation
-close points=strong correlation
standard deviations
-The square root of the variance
-measures the average distance of any score in the distribution from
the mean
-the higher it is, the more spread out the distribution
statistical significance
The "p value" must be .05 or less, meaning there is only a 5% chance
of the results occurring by chance
amygdala
Fear center of the brain
Limbic system
cerebellum functions
"Little brain"
-Muscle movements
-bottom rear of brain
corpus callosum
Connects the two hemispheres
split brain surgery
Separates the bundle, hemispheres operate separately
-man using both his hands to draw two different pictures
endorphins
-pain control
-highly addictive
hippocampus
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Chronological Order of 7 perspectives
Behavioral
Cognitive
Biological
Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Social-cultural
Evolutionary
Evolutionary psychology/psychologists
Charles Darwin
-Focus on the origins of behavior
-Traits passed down from parents for survival
-examines natural selection and how it favors behaviors that help
keep a species going from one generation to the next.
I/O psychology
Industrial/Organizational
-studies behavior in the workplace and the marketplace.
-goal is to create a better working environment and increase
production
Social Learning Theory
Albert Bandura
-Social behavior is based off of watching the actions of others
Correlations
The relationship between two variables
-Positive= one predicts presence of other
-Negative= one predicts absence of other
Experiments vs Correlations
Experiments=cause
Correlations= no cause
Illusory correlations
A correlation between two things that aren't actually connected
-Wet hair and being sick
independent variables
-Produce a change in the DV
-Manipulated by researchers
dependent variables
, -Depends on IV
inferential statistics
Determines if the data can be applied to a greater population from
the sample
measures of central tendency
Mean, Median, Mode
metaanalysis
Researchers examine the results of previous studies instead of
conducting new ones
random assignment
Every participant has an equal chance of being put in any group
reliability
When it can be repeated
-consistent
sampling bias
Errors that can occur in a study by not properly selecting
participants
scatterplots
Graph a correlation
-close points=strong correlation
standard deviations
-The square root of the variance
-measures the average distance of any score in the distribution from
the mean
-the higher it is, the more spread out the distribution
statistical significance
The "p value" must be .05 or less, meaning there is only a 5% chance
of the results occurring by chance
amygdala
Fear center of the brain
Limbic system
cerebellum functions
"Little brain"
-Muscle movements
-bottom rear of brain
corpus callosum
Connects the two hemispheres
split brain surgery
Separates the bundle, hemispheres operate separately
-man using both his hands to draw two different pictures
endorphins
-pain control
-highly addictive
hippocampus
