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AP Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rene Descartes | He has been dubbed The Father of Modern Philosophy, and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings |
| Margaret Floy Washburn | Margaret Floy Washburn, leading American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development. |
| Normal Curve | Very commonly occurring continuous probability distribution—a function that tells the probability that any real observation will fall between any two real limits. |
| Illusory Correlation | Phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables. |
| Electroencephalogram (EEG) | Electroencephalography is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp. EEG measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current flows within the neurons of the brain. |
| Wernicke’s Area | One of the two parts of the cerebral cortex linked--It is involved in the understanding of written and spoken language. |
| Tomography (PET) | Refers to imaging by sections or sectioning, through the use of any kind of penetrating wave. |
| Michael Gazzaniga | Professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. |
| Phineas Gage | American railroad construction foreman remembered for survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, altering behavior. |
| Hermann von Hemholtz | German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science |
| Albert Bandura | Known as the originator of social learning theory and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment. |
| John Garcia | Known for his research on taste aversion learning. |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | Emotional expression results from the function of hypothalami structures, and emotional feeling results from stimulation of the dorsal thalamus. |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | Study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body. |
| Lymphocytes | Any of 3 types of white blood cell in a vertebrate's immune system. All 3 are agranulocytes. |
| Cross-sectional stud | One type of observational study that involves data collection from a population, or a representative subset, at one specific point in time. |
| Lev Vygotsky | Soviet Belarusian psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and biosocial development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, and leader of the Vygotsky Circle. |
| Thematic Apperception | Proponents of this technique assert that a person's responses reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people |
| Savant syndrome | People with savant syndrome may have neurodevelopmental disorders, notably autism spectrum disorders, or brain injuries. |
| Dorothea Dix | American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. |
| Tardive dyskinesia | A disorder that involves involuntary movements, especially of the lower face. Tardive means "delayed" and dyskinesia means "abnormal movement." |
| Kitty Genovese | Woman murdered by male with witnesses around, but no one reported the crime. |
| Leon Festinger | American social psychologist, perhaps best known for cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. |
| Robert Cialdini | Came up with 8 keys principles of influence. |
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