AP Psych

1. Demonstrated when seeing a display of oranges helps someone remember oranges were on their forgotten grocery list.
4. Displayed by listing many new and unusual uses for a common object, like a brick.
5. Psychological approach holding that development is largely a product of learning.
7. The phenomenon that would best explain remembering only the titles of the first few books on a list.
11. Type of intelligence that research supports continues to increase through adulthood.
17. Memory system involving the recall of certain motor actions and is a function of the cerebellum.
19. Brain structure responsible for triggering fear when suddenly startled by a dangerous-looking snake.
20. Theory explaining why students receiving only one point for watching a video might rate it as more interesting than those who received ten points.
22. Explains fans in a crowd feeling anonymous and engaging in offensive chants they wouldn't typically use.
23. Theory best explaining why someone might seek out friends and a concert after a quiet retreat.
24. Statistical technique used to reduce a large number of individual items into smaller, related groups.
25. Clue: Often characterized by severely impaired interpersonal communication in children.

2. A personality disorder characterized by an unwarranted sense of self-importance.
3. Theory that explains color vision and would predict struggles in identifying wing colors if the fovea is damaged.
6. Reflected when observers are hesitant to help an unconscious person until someone else initiates action.
8. Jean Piaget's earliest stage at which a child is capable of using simple logic to think about objects and events.
9. Its incomplete development would most likely explain a teenager's persistence in texting while driving despite warnings.
10. Graph depicting Ebbinghaus's findings on how memory recall lessens over time.
12. An application of operant conditioning where coupons are earned for work and can be exchanged for rewards.
13. Measure of intelligence traditionally based on the relationship between mental age and chronological age.
14. Effect found when students who plagiarize the most overestimate how often other students plagiarize.
15. Type of memory demonstrated by knowing the formula to calculate the area of a square.
16. The mistaken belief that past independent random events influence future ones, e.g., thinking a son is more likely after having four daughters.
18. A visual cue for seeing in depth which is lacking in individuals with sight in only one eye.
21. Persistent repetitive thoughts that cannot be controlled.