Fall Benchmark 3 Review Guide AP Psychology 1. What are the differences between a panic attack and generalized anxiety disorder and a phobia? 9. How does the overjustification effect apply to rewards? 10. How do you know if generalization occurred in classical conditioning? 2. What are the two mental states associated with bipolar disorder? 11. What kind of neurons assist in observational learning? 3. What s the best treatment for bipolar disorder? 12. What is the purpose of virtual reality therapy? 4. How does dysthymic disorder differ from major depressive disorder? 13. What s the difference between a conditioned and an unconditioned stimulus? 5. What are the two characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder? 14. According to behaviorists, what are two ways someone could learn a phobia? 6. How does counterconditioning help with phobias? 7. What did Bandura s Bobo Doll Study reveal about human behavior? 15. What s the difference between operant and classical conditioning? 16. What are the opponent processing color pairs? How does this explain afterimages? 8. How does observational learning apply to hypocritical role models? 17. Why do you have a blind spot?
18. Name the parts of the eye in the order they process light. 26. How can you tell which direction a sound came from? 19. How are sterotypes and perceptual sets similar? 27. What are the five tastes? 28. How do you know if a study is naturalistic observation? 20. What s the difference between selective attention and change blindness? 29. How do you know if a study is a case study? 21. What is your kinesthetic sense? Where is it processed? 30. How do you know if a study is an experiment? 22. Why isn t illness anxiety disorder called hypochondriasis any more? 31. How do operational definitions help with replication? 23. What is color constancy? 32. How do you know if a study is using the double blind method? 24. What determines the pitch of sound? 33. What s the point of the double blind method? 25. What determines the loudness of sound? 34. Why is replication important?
35. What are the APA rules for working with humans? 43. What kind of drugs are prescribed for hallucinations? 36. What s the difference between the control group and the experimental group in an experiment? 44. What kind of drugs are prescribed for depression? 45. What kind of drugs are prescribed for anxiety? 37. What s the difference between mean, median, and mode? 38. What s EQ? How are EQ and delayed gratification related? 46. What kind of drugs are prescribed for bipolar disorder? 39. What s the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation? 47. What neurotransmitter is too abundant in schizophrenia? 40. What s the difference between an internal and an external locus of control? 48. What neurotransmitter is too low in depression? 41. How can the stereotype effect hurt people when taking a test? 49. What do twin studies show about the importance of genetics in intelligence and personality traits? 42. What s the difference between an achievement test and an aptitude test? 50. How are cognitive therapy, biomedical therapy, and behavioral therapy different?
51. What s the difference between motor neurons, interneurons, and sensory neurons? 59. What does the temporal lobe process? 52. What s the difference between an agonist drug and an antagonist drug? 60. What does the parietal lobe process? 53. Which endocrine gland regulates growth? 61. What s the difference between an MRI and an fmri? 54. Which endocrine gland regulates blood sugar? 62. What is the function of the pons? 55. Which endocrine glands regulate sex hormones? 63. What is the function of the hippocampus? 64. What is the function of the thalamus? 56. Which endocrine gland is the master gland? 57. What does the occipital lobe process? 65. What is the function of the hypothalamus? 58. What does the frontal lobe process? 66. What is the function of the reticular formation?
67. What is the function of the medulla? 76. How would a cognitive therapist explain why someone is depressed? 68. What are the three D s used to determine if someone has a mental illness? 77. What are the three phases of GAS? 69. How are lack of sleep and obesity related? 78. What is posthypnotic suggestion? 70. What is sleep apnea? 79. What is REM rebound? 71. What is insomnia? 80. What is parallel processing? 72. Name two stimulant drugs. 73. Name two depressant drugs. 81. How would you treat depression from a lifestyle therapy perspective? 74. How would a biomedical therapist explain why someone is depressed? 82. What does research say about the role of regularly attending religious services on a person s life expectancy? 75. How would a behavioral therapist explain why someone is depressed? 83. How are addiction and withdrawal related?
84. How can biofeedback help with stress related illnesses? 92. What are the differences between encoding failure, storage failure, and retrieval failure? 85. What is dissociation? 93. What are the stages of memory in the information processing model? 94. What is the difference between proactive interference and retroactive interference? 86. What disorder involves hallucinations and delusions? 95. What is the difference between anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia? 87. What is the difference between a social phobia and agoraphobia? 96. What s an example of overgeneralization? 88. What s the difference between an algorithm and a heuristic? 97. What is the difference between recall and recognition? 89. What s a fixation? 98. What is the difference between implicit and explicit memory? 90. How do prototypes relate to stereotypes? 99. How does the serial position affect apply to memory? 91. What are the stages of language acquisition? 100. What are the limits of sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory?