AP Psych Unit 10? Test

In a normal distribution....

Which of the following factors helps to best explain the increased obesity rate in the U.S.?

Why does it seem that poles near the tracks of a train seem to fly by while the houses go by slower?

What kind of psychologist would be most likely to use a projective personality assessment?

The easiest and most common technique used to gather information about people's personality is by

According to Howard Gardner which of the following is a type of intelligence

Creativity is most closely associated with...

When a newborn baby is sleeping, which reflex will be elicited by a sudden noise or touch

Which theory of motivation best explains why some people enjoy dangerous hobbies such as skydiving and bungee jumping?

Your knowledge of who the first president of the United States was is usually found in which level of consciousness?

One drawback of cross-sectional research is that

Kelsey is an actress with many friends who is struggling in hollywood. She can support herself but is still unfulfilled

A Dr. dismisses the Big 5 Model, arguing that people are too diverse to be universally described by a single framework.

Which structure is found in the middle ear?

Which Erikson stage is Saluja in when she switches from debate to the spring musical with new friends?

Before going on the AP Psychology exam, questions are pretested on college students in intro psych courses, known as

Broca's area is usually located in which part of the cortex

Which is typical of a positively skewed distribution?

What theory suggests that using the term girls to refer to women might affect views of women

Which type of scan uses X-ray technology to examine the structure of the brain?

Tiger lilies appear orange because they

In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores fall between the z scores of -2 and +2?

To safeguard participants’ rights, prior to collecting any data, researchers are supposed to seek approval from

Which type of personality theorist would most likely be criticized for underestimating the impact of the environment?

Tamil wants to see whether listening to Mozart will improve students' performance on geometry, her experimental group:

One personality trait that is thought to be highly heritable is

Which of the following is the best example of basic research?

Personality assessment via storytelling from a given picture is an example of which test type?

Learned taste aversions generally result from

An extra chromosome on the twenty-first pair is associated with

After finishing work on a big English paper, his room is a mess. His parents are furious and ground him immediately.

Wilhelm Wundt's early work led to the theory of

Which of the following is an example of observational learning

Someone who has an external locus of control is likely to have a

Juan has crush on Sally, but never admits it. Instead, he tells everyone that Sally is really “into him". Example of

Drinking alcohol while pregnant increases the chance that the child 

Which of the following sentences illustrates overgeneralization?

The Space between the dendrites of one neuron and the terminal buttons of another is called...

Feminist psychoanalytic critics of Freud most commonly argue that

Which of the following people demonstrates the most achievement motivation?

According to the partial reinforcement effect,

According to the contingency theory of classical conditioning...

Research has shown that gay and heterosexual men differ in that

Which reinforcement schedule is best to teach Zach's parents DVR programming before he heads to college?

Redirecting one’s unacceptable urges into more socially acceptable pursuits best defines which of the following mechanis

Rocco is a fun-loving, easygoing fellow. Rocco would best be described as having:

Isabella fondly remembers the first time she went skydiving. This information is an example of

Dr. Li asks her clients to interpret ambiguous pictures of people in various settings. The method she is using is called

Mohammed is trying to make a test that will predict how great someone's potential to be a CEO. Which test is the best?

Jamal sucked his thumb until age eight. As an adult, he smokes, chews gum, and thinks constantly of food.

Which part of the brain is most important in regulating an animal's sex drive

When a neuron initially depolarizes

Humanistic psychologists assert that people are motivated to self-actualize. Which of the following best describes that?

Which of the following is a hormone?

Daniel is learning that 5 pennies spread out on his desk are the same number as 5 in a pile..

What defense mechanism does Roscoe use when praising his abusive boss? Psychoanalysis identifies it as...

Knowledge of skills such as how to tie your shoes or ride a bicycle is thought to be stored in which part of the brain?

In the early twentieth century in the U.S. which of the following perspectives was prominent?

Psychologists who emphasize the importance of personality traits are most often criticized for

which part of the nervous system is most active in the exhaustion stage of Seyle's GAS?

Which of the following is an opiate?

In vision the goal of accommodation is

In which of the following groups would you expect to find the greatest standard deviation in IQ scores?

According to the James-Lange Theory of Emotion...

A 3yr old perceiving the players as "growing" the closer she gets to the field is best explained by:

Which is NOT one of the big five personality traits?

One limitation of the trait perspective compared to the other perspectives is there is not much

In Tolman's experiment on latent learning, latent learning was shown by

Which of the following seems to be least heritable?