AP PSYCHOLOGY STUDY GUIDE: PROLOGUE AND RESEARCH METHODS
Be able to utilize research methods in answering questions
Know how to use Median and Mode
What is the Double-Blind and Placebo effect?
Understand the perspective scenarios, and be able to identify specific scenarios given a certain situation.
Behavioral
Psychoanalytic
Humanist
Biological
Cognitive
Sociocultural
Evolutionary
What are the rules when it comes to human ethics?
How are surveys taken? How can they be reliable?
CHAPTER 18 STUDY GUIDE - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Define cognitive dissonance.
Define and explain fundamental attribution error. What are a dispositional attributions and situational
attributions?
Be able to analyze the purpose and outcomes of the following experiments
Milgram’s Obedience Study
Asch’s Conformity Study
Zimbardo’s Prison Study
Jane Elliot’s Blue Eyed, Brown Eyed Prejudice experiment
What are the factors that make conformity possible?
What is normative and informational social influence?
What are the positive and negative aspects of group polarization? Why is groupthink so destructive?
Define social facilitation and social loafing. Be able to point out what they are in a scenario.
What is aggression and what are the biological causes and also the psychological reasons for it? What is
the frustration-aggression principle?
Explain the bystander effect and Kitty Genovese case. What is altruism?
Define prejudice and understand what causes it. Define stereotypes and how they affect prejudice.
Understand in-group, outgroup bias, and scapegoat theory.
What is the effect of deindividuation?
What is the “just-world phenomenon?”
Explain foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
What is the difference between passionate love and companionate love?
Your first FRQ will be on using research methods to analyze a social psychological experiment.