AP psych test review

George Miller

7 ± 2 is considered to be the amount of meaningful info one can hold in the short term memory

Noam Chomsky

Known for his theory of innate grammar

Hippocampus

Associated with emotions and behavior from STM-LTM

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Discovery of forgetting curve and spacing effect.

Stanford-Binet test

First intelligence test in the United States

Content validity

Extent to which a test samples the behavior of interest

Cannon-Bard Theory (Thalamic Theory)

Emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological response and subjective experience of emotion

Arousal

Level of alertness, wakefulness, and activation caused by activity in the central nervous system

Secondary drive

Drives that are learned through conditioning

Orexin

Hunger hormone from hypothalamus

Emotion

A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience

Central traits

General characteristics

Hans Eysenck’s personality dimensions

Simplified a long list of traits into his 3 dimensions

Source traits

More basic traits, forming the core of personality

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, now used for many other screening purposes

Psychoanalysis

Techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

Social cognitive theory

Albert Bandura. Viewed behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context

Personality inventory

People respond to items to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits

Carl Rogers

Organized, consistent sets of beliefs about ourselves, develops in response to life experiences

Gordon Allport

Focused on conscious motivation and personal traits. Proposed 3 levels of traits