AP Psychology FRQ Review Terms

Question 1

framing

Answer 1

the way an issue is posed, affecting someone’s decision or beliefs

Question 2

functional fixedness

Answer 2

the tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use

Question 3

confirmation bias

Answer 3

tendency to search for information that confirms a personal bias

Question 4

belief perseverance

Answer 4

our tendency for one’s preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning sometimes by making invalid conclusions

Question 5

p value

Answer 5

used for experiments, less than 5% = confident that independent variable shows statistical significance

Question 6

r value

Answer 6

correlation, -1 = negative correlation direction, 1 = positive correlation direction, predicting one another

Question 7

confounding variable

Answer 7

a factor other than the independent variable

Question 8

frontal lobe

Answer 8

behind forehead, involved with speaking, muscle movements, and making plans/judgements (motor cortex)

Question 9

temporal lobe

Answer 9

behind ears, receiving information from the opposite ear, used for hearing and language (somatosensory cortex)

Question 10

parietal lobe

Answer 10

middle/back of brain, used for sensory processing

Question 11

occipital lobe

Answer 11

back of the brain, visual cortex, perceiving visual aspects of our environment

Question 12

cognitive perspective

Answer 12

how internal thoughts and feelings affect our behavior

Question 13

biological perspective

Answer 13

physical aspects of our behavior (brain)

Question 14

behavioral perspective

Answer 14

internal development and how we learn from our environment

Question 15

shaping

Answer 15

an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

Question 16

single blinding

Answer 16

research participant is not told of the treatment assignment

Question 17

double blinding

Answer 17

research participant, investigator, study coordinator/nurse, study sponsor, or data analyst are kept unaware of the treatment assignment

Question 18

right hemisphere

Answer 18

controls left side of our body and sensory input, controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills

Question 19

left hemisphere

Answer 19

controls right side of our body and sensory input, controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing