AP Psychology Semester 2 Exam REVIEW 2021

Emphasizes the role of the unconscious mind, early childhood experiences, and interpersonal relationships to explain human behavior, as well as to treat mental illnesses.

• Social-cultural

• Psychodynamic

• Behavioral

• Biological

Deals with the extent to which hereditary and the environment each influences behavior.

• evolutionary analysis.

• the cognitive rebellion.

• the nature-nurture issue.

• natural selection.

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect

• perceptual constancy

• selective attention

• the phi phenomenon

• perceptual adaptation

A visual cliff is used for testing

• selective attention

• depth perception

• size constancy

• figure-ground perception

In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

• perceptual set

• perceptual constancy

• perceptual adaptation

• perceptual connection

The principles of proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness, and closure

• laws of perceptual organization

• figure-ground perception

• perceptual adaptation

• size constancy

The one sense that will override your other senses.

• taste

• touch

• vision

• hearing

A type of learning where the organism learns to associate two stimuli.

• classical conditioning

• operant condition

• observational learning

• modeling

American psychologist who founded behaviorism, emphasizing the study of observable behavior and rejecting the study of mental processes.

• Sigmund Freud

• John Watson

• Carl Rogers

• Carl Jung

The tendency to respond to another stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus.

• secondary reinforcer

• shaping

• generalization

• latent learning