AP psychology part 3 reviewer

divides the brain

• corpus callosum

• cerebral cotex

• right brain

• left and right hemisphere cortex

group compared to the experimental

• experimental group

• confounding group

• confounding variable

• control group

the sum of a list of numbers, divided by the total number of numbers in the list

• median

• standard deviation

• mean

• mode

we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent

• attribution theory

• cognitive-dissonance theory

• cannon-bard theory

• social exchange theory

our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs

• drive reduction theory

• cognitive exchange theory

• social exchange theory

• reprocity

believed that gastric activity in an empty stomach was the sole reason for hunger; did experiment by inserting balloon in subjects stomach

• Walter B. Cannon

• Ernst Weber

• Henry Murray

• Robert Zajonc

learned helplessness is the giving up reaction that occurs from the experience that whatever you do you cannot

• Horney

• Seligman

• Freud

• Cannon

motor, brain to the body

• neurons

• afferent neurons

• neurotransmitters.

• efferent neurons

bottom-up processing

• sensation

• perception

• belief perseverance

• cue

Brain Mnemonic

a cereal court where the judge is deciding which is the best cereal--the decision making upper brain

• corpus callosum

• occipital lobe

• id

• cerebral cortex