AP Psychology Semester 1 Final 2022

Which of the following psychoactive drug causes hallucinations

Should you reward a child for doing something they like if you want them to continue doing it?

The tendency for REM to increase following REM sleep deprivation is known as

The group of people a researcher draws his sample from are known as

The experimental variable that is manipulated.

Which of the following is true about sleep?

Correlation equals causation

Your pupils dilate, digestion stops, and skin becomes cold when you are afraid due to the

In a naturalistic observation you would

Difficulty typing smoothly on a keyboard is most likely due to damage to the

Leading questions and suggestibility leads to

The limbic system is closely associated with

An investigation seeking to understand the relations between cause and effect that manipulates variables

A mental image of a spatial layout is called

Those who train to do a task, recall them much better after sleep than those who don't sleep. This suggests sleep

In an experiment, the researcher

Telegraphic speech is most closely associated with which stage of language development?

The pituitary glands is controlled by the

Our a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions is

Solving an anagram by rearranging every letter one at a time is an example of

Judging a situation based on examples of similar situations that come to mind initially is known as

Research shows these people spend more time in REM.

The process of learning that involves the reinforcement of increasingly closer approximations of the desired response is

Being unable to see after a car accident is most likely due to damage to the

Semantic encoding is to visual encoding as ___ is to ___

What does the graph demostrate?

Memories of well-learned skills, like riding a bike are classified as

The latent content of a dream refers to

Having difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep is known as

Which supports a strong biological basis for behavior?

Believing a person who likes poetry is probably an English Professor is an example of

Where do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have their initial effect?

Pitch is related to a sound wave's

Fearing spiders after a bite and then developing anxiety when seeing a picture of one is an example of

Contemporary psychology is defined as the science of

Being drawn away from a conversation whenever you hear the word "exactly" by a nearby person is an example of

Realizing the answer to a math problem that you learned the year before demonstrates

Rewarding a rat who successfully runs a maze every third trial is what type of reinforcement schedule?

What perspective uses client-centered therapy to help people explore their potential as a person?

A subliminal message is one that is presented

Dreaming of going to Mars is just your brain's way to make sense of random stimulation from the brain stem according to

Which is not a law of perceptual organization?

A specification of the exact procedures used to measure a variable is a(n)

Suddenly realizing the answer to a physics problem while listening to music after school is an example of

A sample that fairly represents a population because each person has an equal chance of being chosen is

The need to continually needing to more of a drug to feel its effects is an indication of

Painting trees at the top of a canvas to show distance is using a distance cue known as

The neural basis of memory is

The rhythmic bursts of brain activity that occur during Stage 2 sleep are called

If you can look at a knife and realize it can be used to loosen a screw, you have overcome

Running because you enjoy it and not because the cops are chasing you is an example of

Our tendency for people to hold their beliefs as true, even when there is ample evidence to discredit the belief.

Sleep deprivation is likely to ___ obesity and ___ memory

Not being able to smell your pizza when you have a cold is because of

What perspective is interested in how unconscious drives & conflicts affect behavior?

Weber's law determines

if you see a bag of candy next to a red bench, you might think about candy the next time they see a red bench. This is

Which is true of visual information processing?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of sleep apnea?

Thinking of a Robin when asked to draw a bird is an example of

Gate control theory refers to

Circadian rhythm refers to

After an accident, you have trouble understanding what people are saying to you. You have most likely damaged your

Which of the following in NOT part of a neuron?

"Where did you goed?" Who would say this is an example of over-regularizing a logical grammar rule.

The first psych lab was established in ___ by ___

Talking on the cellphone makes you slower to detect & respond to a traffic light. This illustrates

Smell and taste are ____ senses

encoding, storage, & retrieval

One of the ways memories are stored in the brain is through

Which area of the brain doesn't develop fully until after the age of 3 and therefore explains infantile amnesia?

A vivid, enduring memory associated with a personally significant and emotional event is a

Our ability to recall information better when it is personally relevant is due to

Failing to draw the front of a penny occurs due to

Which is most closely associated with the nature v. nurture debate?

The use of a heuristic rather than an algorithm will most likely

Which of the following psychoactive drugs increases nervous system activity?

 Our choices are influenced by the way they are presented to us.

Studying for your AP Psychology exam every night for an hour two weeks before the test is an example of

Struggling to learn Chinese after studying Japanese in elementary school is an example of

No longer noticing the smell of cookies when you work in a cookie factory is due to

Evidence suggest we consolidate our memories of recent life events through

Some children become more aggressive when watching violent movies. This is an example of the impact of

Exercise increases your energy level and feelings of well-being because it

Being able to remove your hand quickly from a hot stove is a result of

Chomsky's theory of language development suggests that children have an inborn

Taking out the garbage before your Dad yells at you is which of the following types of reinforcement?

Occurs when researchers selectively notice evidence that supports their hypothesis.

Fear is mostly associated with the

A child who fails math tests and assignments repeatedly & feels they can't control it will often give up & stop trying

Occurs when information is captured with no conscious effort.

Where does the neurotransmitter dopamine have its effect?

Damage to a part of the occipital lobe would most likely result in

What is true about the sense of taste?

Remembering items at the beginning and end of a list better than stuff in the middle is known as

The critical period for learning a second language would most negatively effect an

Longitudinal studies

"Language shapes the way people think" illustrates what concept?