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AP PsychologyCUPCAKE REVIEW

Is there any such thing as a free cupcake? NO!!!!

1. What, in the process of vision, is responsible for seeing the colors on your cupcake? Where are these cells primarily located in the retina? This visual information then travels through the _____ nerve to the _____ cortex/ _____ lobe.

2. What part of your brain (limbic system) is related to hunger/satiety?

3. What gland is directly controlled by this part of your brain (in above question)?

4. What is the relay center in your brain called?

5. Does the scent of the cupcake go through this system? Explain briefly.

6. There is another important thing about the decorating colors of frosting that you see on your cupcake. What are the two theories of color vision called?

7. If you eat your cupcake, but don’t gain any weight after ingesting all those calories, what might that indicate? Identify 2 different factors involved.

8. Sitting here with a cupcake on your desk that you aren’t supposed to eat may remind you about an aspect of development that typically develops in adolescence. What is it?

9. Once the cupcake has been sitting on your desk a few minutes, you no longer really notice it. What is this called?

10.What level of moral development have you attained (at the very least) if you reason that you have to obey the guidelines for this assignment?

11.If your cupcake had addictive properties (for instance, if it had cocaine in it - how better to get people to keep eating them, if you run a bakery?), what would happen after you ate several and then didn’t have any more?

12.What would the cupcake/cocaine be doing in your body at the cellular level?

13.If someone drops a cloth over your cupcake (not damaging it or even messing up the frosting) and you still realize that you have a cupcake – that it is only hidden, then you have mastered the cognitive task of ________.

14.Assume for a moment that you are watching someone else eat his/her cupcake. What neurons would be firing as your empathic self is “in tune” with their experience?

15.The cupcake eater bites his tongue. What is the name of one useful model of pain control?

16.What if the cupcake eater had a cold? Would the cupcake taste different? How?

17.Consider Freudian theory. Which part of you just wants to eat the cake NOW? Which part resists eating it now? Which part tells you it’s not right to break the rules?

18.If you have a choice between a warm, soft blanket and pillow to curl up with on a couch, or a cupcake and you choose the blanket/pillow/couch, you are opting for ______ which is an example of the research done by whom?

19.What “school” of therapist might say, “I hear you saying you are annoyed that you have to do this assignment before you can eat your cupcake? That sounds like it’s frustrating for you.”

20.What if you had a longstanding fear of cupcakes... only cupcakes....which interferes with your social and/or occupational functioning (I know – just imagine). What disorder do you likely have? How would you go about treatment?

21.You are thinking, “This is the most beautiful best, most delicious looking cupcake in the entire world. If I can’t eat this right now, my head is going to explode!!!” What type of therapist might ask you to consider the likelihood of that outcome?

22.If you are able to eat the cupcake in class, with other people around, with significantly less mess than usual, what might be the reason?

23.If you are completely overcome by the amazing taste of the cupcake and cannot find the words to describe it, mumbling the same words over and over, what specific part of your brain is failing you?

24.Write each of the phonemes in the word “cupcake.”

25.If you watch someone else eat their cupcake in an unusual manner and decide to do the same yourself, and are successfully able to recreate their eating style after watching them, you have used what method of learning?

26.What disorder are you showing some symptoms of if you:

a. Peel the cupcake. Sweep crumbs off desk. Take tiny bites in an exact circle around the cupcake edge. Sweep crumbs off desk. Tiny bites again another concentric circle. Sweep. Repeat 9X more.

b. You eat 15 cupcakes in a 2-hour period and feel sad, frustrated, and feel to need to rid yourself of these calories.

c. Your heart rate jumps and you feel like you are re-experiencing the tragedy of your 2nd grade birthday celebration in school when the whole class surprised you and you wet your pants. Ahhh! The flashbacks!

d. You’ve been studying for AP exams for the past 7 days. You need little sleep, are incredibly productive, but just bought 5 new study books and the Barons 1000 vocabulary word flash cards. People tell you that you are talking too fast.

e. “Maybe the cupcake is poisoned. You know Ms. Bolinsky has always had it in for you!” says the voice inside your head.

f. You do a little work. You read some quotes on the wall. You tap your pencil and bounce your knee and think about going out this weekend. You do a bit more work. You get up to go to the bathroom. You come back in the classroom and see your cupcake. Man that looks good. You eat it right away. Oops. That always happens: that acting BEFORE thinking thing.

g. You’ve been sleeping a lot lately. Not wanting to eat much. Feeling hopeless about the future. This is probably the last cupcake anyone is ever going to make for you. You don’t have any idea how you actually got into college, they must not really have read your

application carefully.

h. You suddenly find a cupcake and a paper on your desk. You don’t remember anyone putting it there and you have no idea why you are sitting in this unfamiliar room.

i. You look at your cupcake and feel like you have somehow been cheated and you just can’t believe it. How could anyone not give you the very best cupcake? How could someone else possibly deserve a cupcake better than the one you have? You reach out and take the cupcake from the students next to you and stack it on top of yours, creating a magnificent double-cupcake. Now that’s better. That’s more like it. That’s the way things should be.

27.If your cupcake is created for you in recognition of the effort you’ve put forth this year and the learning you’ve accomplished it would be ______ . If it is considered as making your hunger go away, it is ______.

28.What primary taste sensation is your cupcake likely to stimulate?

29.What lobe of your brain is working hard to inhibit your motor cortex from grabbing the cupcake and taking a bite?

30.If you feel that the cupcake was earned and that you were in control of whether or not you received one, you have an ______. If you feel that it was just fate or luck that you got a cupcake, it is because you have an _______.

31.My favorite thing about psychology is________. This sentence completion task is an example of what kind of personality assessment?

32.If you believe that you could have made a better cupcake than the one that has been provided to you, then you have a feeling of ______ about baking, based on previous experiences (not “confidence”).

33.Consider repeated pairings that have occurred. Tasty snacks cause your mouth to water. Now you have climbed the stairs to the 2nd floor, and on several occasions have had tasty snacks. Because of your associative learning, your schema for psychology has expanded. You retrieve, from LTM, images of rat mazes and candy, chocolate from review presentations, sugar cubes from taste experiences, etc. Assuming conditioning has occurred, what is the UCS? UCR? CS?

34.If you fall asleep suddenly during the assignment and never even get to eat your cupcake (the rest of the class split it while you were dozing), it could be because you have ______. What stage of sleep were you in when you fell asleep? What kind of brain waves do you have now that you are awake and alert again?

35.What neurotransmitter/pathway has been going crazy in anticipation of the cupcake reward?

36.If the cupcakes are part of an experiment to determine whether chocolate improves memory retrieval, what would be the IV and DV? The experimental and control groups?

37.What ethical guidelines might the above experiment have violated? (Name at least 2.)

38.If you are in a cage and the cupcake is outside the cage, whose research are you demonstrating if you have to activate a series of different latches and levers to open the cage door to reach your cupcake? What about if you have to assemble a stick out of shorter sticks to reach the cupcake and pull it closer?

39.If you became ill immediately after eating your cupcake and you were watching a Phillip Zimbardo clip, would you associate your illness with Dr. Zimbardo’s voice? The classroom? Or the cupcake? Why? Whose research is this related to?

40.If you eat your cupcake and it is fantastic and later when asked about your favorite kind of cupcake, you immediately think of the flavor that you had, what mental shortcut will you have just used?

41.Joe yells “It’s not fair! Matt’s cupcake has more frosting. You can feel the difference.” You hold one cupcake in each hand. You are correct about which one is heavier 50% of the time. This is called _______?

42.If you are happy about having been given a cupcake that you get to eat as soon as you successfully complete a very simple assignment, but then learn that you have to serve detention for being tardy to class, you might get more irritated or unhappy than usual and your happiness is gone. What theory of emotion explains this?

43.If you expect the cupcake to taste a certain way, because you have had a similar cupcake in the past and you remember the taste very clearly, this would an example of ______. If you are experiencing the taste for the very first time and have no expectations, your perception of it would be _______ instead.

44.You snatch the cupcake of the girl sitting next to you, stuff it in your mouth, and RUN as she starts chasing you. Your __________ nervous system of your autonomic nervous is kicked into high gear as you are in “flight.” What is not happening to the cupcake now? (What is “turned off” when you are fleeing?)

45.If all of you do very well on the AP exam AND you all had a tasty cupcake, and other students in other schools don’t do well and didn’t receive cupcakes, can I proclaim “cupcakes increase student AP exam scores?” Why or why not? What are two alternative explanations/other variables that may be involved?

46.You wonder, does this stuff all really relate to what we’ve learned? Is it a ______ measure of our cumulative knowledge? Will it predict our success on

the AP exam?

47.You are nearing the end of the assignment and you can feel your heart beating rapidly. You decide that this must be because you are excited about the prospect of finally getting to eat your cupcake. What theory explains why you feel this way?

48.You are stunned and how you have been very successful on this exercise. Name three different methods you used in the encoding process to facilitate retrieval:

49.Psychology is the study of ___________________ and _____________________ processes.

50.What two activities improve your cognitive ability, alertness, help you manage stress, and improve your mood? (G-rated answers please). Do them both for the next week—more than usual.