AP Psychology Top Analogies 1 st Semester Review these have College Board questions written all over them.

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1 AP Psychology Top Analogies 1 st Semester Review these have College Board questions written all over them. 1. Perfect positive correlation is to as is to David Myers is to happiness as is to death and dying. 3. Freud is to psychosexual as Erikson is to. 4. Cocaine is to dopamine as Nicotine is to. 5. Awareness is to lucid dreaming as is to latent dreaming. 6. Hunger is to lateral hypothalamus as is to ventromedial hypothalamus. 7. Height of wave is to amplitude as waves per second are. 8. JND is to as MMPI is to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. 9. The cerebral cortex is to higher level thinking as is to emotion. 10. Somatosensory cortex is to parietal lobe as motor cortex is to. 11. Puzzle box is to as Skinner box is to B.F. Skinner. 12. Visual cliff is to depth perception as bobo doll is to. 13. Depression is to serotonin as schizophrenia is to. 14. Sleep spindles are to as delta waves are to stage 4 sleep. 15. Resting potential is to polarization as action potential is to. 16. Prediction is to correlation study as cause-effect relationship is to. 17. Max Wertheimer is to Gestalt psychology as is to behaviorism. 18. Natural observation is to description as correlation study is to. 19. Sensory neurons are to afferent as motor neurons are to. 20. GABA is to Huntington's disease as is to depression. 21. Occipital lobe is to vision as is to hearing. 22. The amygdala is to fear as the is to memory. 23. Physical stimulation is to sensation as interpretation is to. 24. Photoreceptors are to vision as are to hearing. 25. Encoding is to memory as is to sensation. 26. Variable-ratio is to slot machine as is to factory piecework (10 for 10). 27. Cone is to color as rod is to.

2 28. Tympanic membrane is to middle ear as cochlea is to. 29. Self-actualization is to top as is to bottom. 30. MICHAEL GAZZANIGA is to split-brain research as is to id, ego, & superego. 31. Paradoxical sleep is to as deep sleep is to Stage Tree is to sky as is to ground. 33. Empathy is to as free association is to psychoanalysis 34. James-Lange is to physiological first as is to simultaneous. 35. The study of brain structures is to biological psychology as the study of mental abilities is to. 36. The Wright brothers are to aviation as is to psychology. 37. Regulation of thirst is to hypothalamus as relay of messages is to. 38. Range is to measure of variability as mode is to. 39. The removal of a chore is to as the adding of a chore is to positive punishment. 40. Expectations and knowledge are to top-down processing as the color and shape are to. 41. Max Weber is to Weber's law as is to the law of effect. 42. Voluntary behaviors are to as involuntary behaviors are to classical conditioning. 43. Cognitive maps are to latent learning as trains and tunnels are to latent. 44. Norepinephrine is to mood as endorphins are to. 45. Formation of new memories is to hippocampus as coordinated movement is to the. 46. The best of 2 desirable activities is to the approach-approach as the lesser of two evils is to. 47. Optimal level is to arousal theory as rewards are to. 48. Experimental group is to treatment as is to no treatment. 49. Structure of consciousness is to as flow of consciousness is to functionalism. 50. Troubles falling asleep is to insomnia as troubles staying awake are to. 51. PIAGET is to cognitive as Kohlberg is to. 52. Attachment is to Harlow as hierarchy of needs is to. 53. Generativity vs. stagnation is to as integrity vs. despairs to old age.

3 54. Phillip Zimbardo is to prison as Wilhelm Wundt is to. 55. Acquisition is to classical conditioning as alarm/resistance/exhaustion is to. 56. Hue is to color as saturation is to. 57. Kinesthesia is to as vestibular sense is to sense of balance. 58. Light intensity is to different as frequency is to different pitch. 59. Association is to classical conditioning as reinforcements and punishments are to. 60. Acetylcholine is to Alzheimer's as is to Parkinson's. 61. Number of responses is to ratio as time passed is to. 62. Fixed-action patterns are to the instinct theory of motivation as homeostasis is to the. 63. Lateral hypothalamus is to ghrelin as is to leptin. 64. Edward Titchner is to structuralism as is to functionalism. 65. Manipulated variable is to as measured variable is to dependent variable. 66. Compliance to social demands is to social role theory of hypnosis as split consciousness is to. 67. Mimic is to agonist as block the reuptake of is to. 68. Alcohol is to depressant as barbiturate is to. 69. Dreaming is to REM sleep as sleepwalking is to. 70. Learned helplessness is to rats as attachment is to. 71. Avoidance of punishment is to preconventional as pleasing others is to. 72. Identity vs. role confusion is to adolescence as industry vs. inferiority is to. 73. Martin Seligman is to as Charles Darwin is to the theory of evolution. 74. Unconditional positive regard is to Carl Rogers as self-actualization is to, 75. Sense of smell is to olfaction as sense of taste is to. 76. Minimum amount of stimulus detected is to as smallest diffference between stimuli detected is to difference threshold. 77. Nerve deafness is to hair cells as is to the middle ear. 78. Light intensity is to as amplitude is to loudness. 79. Amplitude is to decibels as is to Hertz.

4 80. Stimulus- response is to classical conditioning as response-stimulus is to. 81. Ridges of the cortex are to gyri as valleys of the cortex are to. 82. Breathing is to the medulla as waking to the alarm is to. 83. Pavlov is to classical conditioning as is to observational learning. 84. Firm and punitive is to authoritarian as firm but fair is to. 85. Vestibular sense is to body position as somatic sense is to. 86. Pitch is to as loudness is to amplitude. 87. Interpretation of speech and written words is to Wernicke's area as production of speech is to. 88. Language is to left hemisphere as is to right hemisphere. 89. Neurotransmitters are to the nervous system as are to the endocrine system. 90. Sympathetic system is to action as parasympathetic system is to. 91. Instructions are to posthypnotic suggestion as memory loss it to.

5 ANSWERS 1. perfect negative correlation 2. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 3. Psychosocial 4. Acetylcholine 5. Hidden 6. Starvation 7. Frequency 8. Just noticeable difference 9. Limbic system or amygdala 10. Frontal lobe 11. Edward Thorndike 12. Observational Learning 13. Dopamine 14. Stage Depolarization 16. Experimental method/experiment 17. John Watson 18. Relationships between variables 19. Efferent neurons 20. Serotonin/norepinephrine 21. Temporal Lobe 22. Hippocampus 23. Perception 24. Hair cells 25. Transduction 26. Fixed-ratio 27. Black and White 28. Inner ear 29. Physiological needs 30. Sigmund Freud

6 31. REM sleep 32. Figure 33. Humanism 34. Cannon Bard 35. Cognitive psychology 36. Wilhelm Wundt 37. Thalamus 38. Measure of central tendency 39. Negative reinforcement 40. Bottom-up processing 41. Edward Thorndike 42. Operant conditioning 43. Dream content 44. Pain reduction 45. Cerebellum 46. Avoidance-avoidance 47. Incentive theory 48. Control group 49. Structuralism 50. Narcolepsy 51. Moral 52. Maslow 53. Adulthood 54. First Laboratory 55. General Adaptation Syndrome 56. Purity 57. Movement 58. Brightness 59. Operant Conditioning 60. Dopamine 61. Interval

7 62. Drive-reduction theory 63. Ventromedial hypothalamus 64. William James 65. Independent variable 66. Dissociation theory 67. Antagonist 68. Depressant 69. Stage Monkeys 71. Conventional 72. Early childhood 73. Learned Helplessness 74. Abraham Maslow 75. Gustation/Taste 76. Absolute threshold 77. Conduction deafness 78. Brightness 79. Frequency 80. Operant conditioning 81. Fissures/Sulci 82. Reticular formation 83. Bandura 84. Authoritative 85. Pressure (Touch), pain, temperature (warm/cold) 86. Frequency 87. Broca s area 88. Facial recognition, visual-spatial ability 89. Hormones 90. Calm/Rest 91. Posthypnotic amnesia