Hello world. This is where I will be posting my notes as I study for the MCAT. I will be focusing on studying the psychology and sociology section for the MCAT first. I should master this by the summer so I can move on to the more hefty topics.
So for today, I took a NEXT STEP Psychology/Sociology Practice Exam and got in the 73% percentile. I will review what I missed and important information here. Also I took the 2012 International Psychology Exam.
AP Psychology Exam 2012
1. Deviant behavior traced to genetic anomalies or physical structure issues of the brain is a biomedical approach not cognitive or behavioral.
2. Piaget's Stage of Preoperational (1.5-7 Years of age) consists of egocentrism, animism, and artificialism, centration, focusing on one aspect to categorize objects (such as width but not length).
3. Amphetamines are used to treat ADHD, Narcolepsy, and Obesity Ex: Ritalin, Adderall
4. Pitch is how high or low a tone is and it is determined by its frequency measured in Hz.
5. Piaget's Stage of Sensorimotor (Birth to 1.5 Years of Age): Reacts to sensory stimuli through reflexes and enjoys looking at human faces. At around 10 months the baby learns object permanence.
6. A child’s ability to anticipate when a toy will reappear between two blocks without having had experience with similar tasks is known as _____.
A. conservation
B. A naive theory
C. object permanence *Because it says no prior experience. Object Permanence needs experience
D. Concrete Operations
E. Animism
7. Repression: unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious. Denial: blocking external events from awareness. If some situation is just too much to handle, the person just refuses to experience it. Projection: This involves individuals attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings and motives to another person. Displacement: Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object Regression: movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress Sublimation: satisfying an impulse with a substitute object in a socially acceptable way. Reaction Formation: acting in exactly the opposite way to one's unacceptable impulses
8. Visual acuity is best at the fovea
9. Assimilation refers to the process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture or psycholo.
10. Having an argument, stress, and no sleep affects your immune system more than actually having someone near you with the flu
11. Motion Parallax: monocular depth cue in which we view objects that are closer to us as moving faster than objects that are far away
12. Purkinje Shift: At dusk reds look darker and blues look lighter. More illumination for lower wavelengths
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14. If we have a false positive (Type 1 Error) then then if the Ho was 5 and it was 3. To go farther away from the null would mean it was wrongly reject the null hypothesis.
