IBY2 Psychology Exit Exam Review Questions 7 days of review

1. IBY2 Psychology Exit Exam Review Questions7 days of review!) These questions and answers will serve as your IB PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM for me. Extra credit??? Type up BOTH the questions and your responses before you turn it in. ? + 10 points Due Date: Monday, May 2, 2011

2. Review Questions � Day 1 What events defined the founding of scientific psychology? What are psychology�s 3 major levels of analysis? What is the scientific attitude, and why is it important for critical thinking? What are the strength AND weaknesses of the 3 different methods psychologist use to describe behavior � case studies, surveys, and naturalistic observation? Why, when testing a new drug for blood pressure, would we learn more about its effectiveness from giving it to half of the participants in a group of 1000 than to all 1000 participants? How are human and animal research subjects protected?

3. Review Questions � Day 2 How do neurons communicate with one another? How does information flow through your nervous system as you pick up a fork? Can you summarize this process? Why is the pituitary gland called the �master gland�? Within what brain region would damage be most likely to disrupt your ability to: Skip rope Sense tastes or sounds Breathe or pump heart

4. Review Questions � Day 3 What is heritability? To predict whether a teenager smokes, ask how many of the teen�s friends smoke. One explanation for this correlation is peer influence. What�s another? How do individualist and collectivist cultures differ? Use Piaget�s first three stages of cognitive development to explain why young children are NOT just miniature adults in the way they think. How has the transition from childhood to adulthood changed in Western cultures in the last 100 years? What findings in psychology support the stage theory of development and the idea of stability in personality across the life span? What findings challenge these ideas?

5. Review Questions � Day 4 Your friend insists that he did call you to dinner as you intently watched TV. What principle explains your not perceiving him? What type of evidence shows that, indeed, �there is more to perception than meets the senses�? When is the use of hypnosis potentially harmful, and when can hypnosis be used to help? In what ways are near-death experiences similar to drug-induced hallucinations? Compare and contrast classical conditioning and operant conditioning? What is priming? Can you offer an example of proactive interference? If children are not yet speaking, is there any reason to think they would benefit from parents and other caregivers reading to them?

6. Review Questions � Day 5 How might drive-reduction theory, arousal theory, and the evolutionary perspective explain our sexual motivation? Who tends to express more emotion � men or women? How do we know the answer to that question? What are the basic links in our stress response system? What, according to Freud, were some of the important defense mechanisms, and what do they defend against? How do learned helplessness and optimism influence behavior? What is the biopsychosocial approach, and why is it important in our understanding of psychological disorders?

7. Review Questions � Day 6 How do generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder differ? What are the five subtypes of schizophrenia? What is the major distinction between the underlying assumption in psychoanalytic and humanistic therapies and the underlying assumption in behavior therapies? How does the placebo effect bias clients� appraisals of the effectiveness of psychotherapies? How do researchers evaluate the effectiveness of particular drug therapies?

8. Review Questions � Day 7 What are the influences to keep in mind for successful therapeutic intervention? You are organizing a Town Hall-style meeting of fiercely competitive political candidates. To add to the fun, friends have suggested handing out masks of the candidates� faces for supporters to wear. What phenomenon might these masks engage?