AP Psychology Confusing Terms Review Quiz [1]

Individual elements to whole.

• Bottom-up processing

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

• Top-down processing.

Chemicals the mimic the actions of neurotransmitters.

• Antagonist

• Syntax

• Agonist

• Semantics

Start small then go big- 5$ get 100$.

• Punishment

• Foot-in-the-door

• Door-in-the-face

• Reinforcement

Each participant has equal chance of being placed into any group.

• Random sample

• Flooding

• Systematic desensitization

• Random assignment

A type of research that has a clear and practical use.

• Basic research

• Applied research

• Objective research

• Subjective research

Deals with numbers- height, weight, time.

• Collectivist cultures

• Individualistic cultures

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

Tendency to overstate one's role in a positive venture & underestimate in a failure.

• Self-serving bias

• Anterograde Amnesia

• Retrograde Amnesia

• Self-fulfilling prohecies

[Example] Japan- family, company stressed

• Collectivist cultures

• Individualistic cultures

• Syntax

• Semantics