Option 1) On your own notebook paper, answer each question in complete sentence format.

Option 2) Create flashcards with the question on one side and the answers on the back.

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
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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.
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?
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63. Why is REM sleep known as paradoxical sleep?