Similarity/Review Activity
AP Psychology
Units History/Careers/Theories, Memory, Sensation/Perception,
Development, Stress and Treatment
History/Careers/Theories:
1) Structuralism v. Functionalism
2) Learning Curve v. Forgetting Curve
3) Psychoanalysis v. Behaviorist v. Cognitive v. Humanism v. Neurobiological
v. Sociocultural v. Evolutionary
4) Freud v. Skinner/Pavlov v. Maslow/Rogers v. Wundt
5) Basic v. Applied Psychology
6) Counseling/Clinical Psychologist v. Psychiatrist
7) School v. Educational Psychologist
Memory:
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Semantic v. Visual v. Acoustic encoding
Episodic v. Procedural v. Semantic memories
Explicit v. implicit memory
Maintenance v. elaborative rehearsal
Short-term v. long-term memory
Primacy v. recency effect
Anterograde v. retrograde amnesia
Proactive v. retroactive interference
Recall v. recognition
Sensation/Perception:
1) Rods v. cones
2) Nearsightedness v. farsightedness
3) Brightness v. saturation
4) Additive color mixing v. Subtractive color mixing
5) Outer v. inner v. middle ear
6) Place v. frequency theory
7) Conduction v. nerve deafness
8) Sensory adaptation v. Sensory deprivation
9) Sensation v. Perception
10) Weber’s Law v. Fechner’s Law
11) Bottom-up v. Top-down processing
Development:
1) Assimilation v. Accommodation
2) Artificialistic v. animistic
3) Secure attachment v. avoidant v. anxious-ambivalent attachment
4) Piaget v. Erikson
5) Kohlberg v. Gilligan
6) Fluid v. Crystallized intelligence
Stress:
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GAS v. Fight or flight
Selye v. Cannon
Eustress v. Distress
Type A v. Type B
Treatment:
1) Psychodynamic Theory v. Behavioral Theory v. Cognitive(Ellis) Theory v.
Humanistic(Rogers) Theory
2) Systematic Desensitization v. Flooding
3) Antipsychotics  Clorazil v. Clozapine v. Thorazine
4) Antianxiety  Valium v. Librium
5) Antidepressants  Prozac v. Lithium v. Valium
6) ECT v. Frontal Lobotomy
Research/Statistics:
1) Independent v. Dependent v. Confounding Variable
2) Naturalistic observation v. Case Study
3) Experiment v. Correlation
4) Experimental Group v. Control Group
5) Random assignment v. Random selection
6) Single blind v. double blind
7) Median v. Mode
8) Range v. Standard Deviation
9) Negative correlation v. Positive Correlation
10) Positive v. Negative Skew
Consciousness:
1) Conscious v. preconscious
2) Priming v. subliminal perception
3) Anterograde amnesia v. retrograde amnesia
4) Stage one sleep v. stage two sleep
5) Stage four sleep v. REM sleep
6) Nightmare v. night terror
7) Insomnia v. sleep apnea
8) Wish fulfillment v. activation synthesis
9) Posthypnotic suggestion v. post hypnotic amnesia
10) State theory v. role theory
11) Psychological dependence v. physical dependence
12) Barbiturates v. alcohol
13) Stimulants v. opiates
Intelligence:
1) IQ v. EQ
2) Stanford-Binet v. WAIS
3) Aptitude v. Achievement Test
4) Test retest reliability v. alternate forms reliability
5) Content validity v. criterion validity
6) Sternberg v. Goleman
7) Fluid v. Crystallized
8) Spearman v. Gardner
9) Divergent v. convergent thinking
Motivation and Emotion:
1) Instinct theory v. Drive theory
2) Arousal theory v. incentive theory
3) Hunger v. Satiety
4) Glucose v. Insulin
5) Lateral hypothalamus. Ventromedial hypothalamus
6) Anorexia v. Bulimia
7) Estrogen v. Androgen
8) Intrinsic v. Extrinsic motivation
9) Subjective well being v. feel good do good phenomenon
10) Sympathetic nervous system v. Parasympathetic nervous system
11) James Lange v. Cannon Bard
12) Primary Emotions v. Secondary Emotions
Mental Illness:
1) Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5 . Another helpful link: The DSM 5
2) Generalized Anxiety Disorder v. Phobia
3) Conversion Disorder v. Illness anxiety disorder
4) Dissociative Identity Disorder v. Schizophrenia
5) DID v. Fugue
6) Major Depressive Disorder v. Dysthymic Disorder
7) Hallucination v. Delusion
8) Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia v. Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
9. Histrionic v. Narcissistic
10. Avoidant v. Antisocial
11. Borderline v. Dependent
12. Flooding Therapy v. Systematic Desensitization
Social Psychology:
1) Groupthink v. Group Polarization
2) Social facilitation v. Social interference
3) Asch v. Milgram v. Zimbardo
4) Prisoner’s Dilemma v. Commoner’s Dilemma
5) Stereotype v. Prejudice v. Discrimination
6) Central Route v. Peripheral Route to Persuasion
7) Door-in-the-face v. Foot-in-the-door
8) Self-fulfilling Prophecy v. Self-handicapping Strategy
9) Fundamental Attribution Error v. Actor Observer Effect
10) Confirmation Bias v. Hindsight Bias
Personality:
1) Jung v. Horney v. Freud v. Adler
2) Displacement v. Sublimation
3) Denial v. Repression
Cognition v. Language
1) Availability Heuristic v. Representative Heuristic
2) Whorf v. Skinner v. Chompsky
3) Grammar v. Syntax
Learning:
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Classical Conditioning v. Operant Conditioning
Negative Reinforcement v. Positive Reinforcement
Variable-interval schedule v. variable-ration schedule
Stimulus Discrimination v. Stimulus Generalization
Extinction v. Spontaneous Recovery
Positive Punishment v. Negative Punishment
Shaping v. Chaining
Brain:
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Resting Potential v. Action Potential
Sensory Neurons v. Motor Neurons
Sympathetic Nervous System v. Parasympathetic Nervous System
Excitatory Response v. Inhibitory Response
Reticular Activating System v. Pons
Broca’s Area v. Wernicke’s Area
Sensory Strip v. Motor Strip
Basal Ganglia v. Cerebellum