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1
What type of personality theorist would most likely underestimate the impact of the environment
Trait
Psychodynamic
Behaviorist
Cognitive
2
Tiger lilies appear orange because they
absorb orange light.
reflect yellow light and absorb red light.
reflect orange light.
transduce orange light.
3
Zach wants to teach his parents to use the DVR. What reinforcement schedule would work best?
Fixed ratio
Fixed interval
Continuous reinforcement
Variable ratio
4
ECT is most likely to be used to treat
Depression
ECT is no longer an accepted medical treatment.
Phobias
Schizophrenia
5
Which of the following is an example of discrimination?
Melissa learned to dig for earthworms only after it rains.
Al winces when he hears yelling on TV after his dad does it
Jessica continues to talk during class after it has started.
Franz always bounces a ball three times before shooting.
6
Mr. Solo is making soup. After tasting it, he adds salt until he can first detect it. This is?
Olfactory Sensitivity
Absolute Threshold
Perceptual Set
Difference Threshold
7
The space between the dendrites of one neuron and the terminal buttons of another is the:
Myelin sheath
Mode of Ranvier
Synapse
Axon
8
What day is Star Wars day?
May 5th
Everyday is Star Wars day.
December 18th
May 4th
9
A girl who watches a ball game and thinks the players are growing when they run towards her is
demonstrating place theory
shows incomprehension about how to use Gestalt principles
explains her inability to use binocular cues.
shows the fact that she is still developing size constancy.
10
Which of the following is an example of hostile aggression?
Billy shoots a deer in order to feed his family.
Joe beats up a man at an ATM to steal his money.
Lula screams at her cat to scare it off the table.
Ann pushes a man out of the way to grab a shirt off the rack
11
Kelsey is a struggling actress. She supports herself, but has small roles. Maslow would say she
is striving for safety.
is self-actualized.
is trying for power
is going for esteem.
12
Kiersten works for an abusive boss, but he tells everyone she's great. Which defense mechanism?
Displacement
Projection
Reaction Formation
Sublimation
13
Which is typical of a positively skewed distribution?
The mean is higher than the median.
The mean is lower than the median.
There are more high scores than low scores.
The mode is lower than the median, but higher than the mean.
14
In a normal distribution, approximately what percentage of scores fall between -2 and +2?
25
75
95
50
15
As Jared went to class, he passed dozens of people. Their outfits are in his
Short-term memory
Iconic memory
Working memory
Long-term memory
16
Bailey wants to hang out with new friends outside of band. What Erikson stage is she in?
Intimacy vs. isolaton
Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
Identity vs. role confusion
Generativity vs. stagnation
17
Which of the following is the best example of basic research?
Children's use of language changes as they age
A teacher test two different methods of teaching reading
New therapeutic approaches to treating phobias.
Studying how charities can convince people to donate more.
18
Which part of the nervous system is most active in the exhaustion stage of Seyle's GAS?
Peripheral
Sympathetic
Parasympathetic
Somatic
19
Luis' messy room has him grounded for a month w/o an explanation. What parenting style is used?
Neglectful
Authoritarian
Indulgent
Authoritative
20
In the early 20th century in America, which of the following perspectives was prominent?
Psychoanalytic
Biological
Behaviorist
Gestalt
21
Which of the following is an opiate?
Amphetamines
Cocaine
Nicotine
Heroin
22
Dr. Bae rejects the Big Five personality traits because people are unique. Which perspective?
Cognitive
Psychodynamic
Sociocultural
Idiographic
23
Which of the following types of approaches is used by the most clinical psychologists in the US
Humanistic
Client-centered
Systemic desensitization
Eclectic
24
Research has shown that gay and heterosexual men differ in that
Heterosexual men are less likely to have poor childhoods.
homosexual men do not make good parents.
the mothers of gay men are unusually domineering.
some of their brain structures differ in size.
25
Learned taste aversion generally results from
Operant conditioning
Shaping
Classical conditioning
Negative reinforcement
26
In a normal distribution
95 percent of scores fall within one standard deviation.
The mean is always greater than the median.
The standard deviation is always less than 1.0
The mean, median, and mode are all equal.
27
Which statement about memory is true?
There is no one place in the brain where memories are stored
People can correctly gauge the accuracy of their memories.
Memories are like stored video images
Older people are worse at all types of memory tasks.
28
The typical age of the onset for schizophrenia is
during young adulthood.
during middle age.
during childhood.
at birth.
29
Ruben is very competitive in all situations. What kind of attribution causes this?
Situation-stable
Situation-unstable
Person-unstable
Person-stable
30
An extra chromosome on the twenty-first pair is associated with
Tay-Sachs syndrome
Alzheimer's disease
Klinefelter's syndrome
Down syndrome
31
Which of the following is one of the main advantages of group therapy?
It reduces the financial burden of therapy.
The therapy usually takes less time.
The client develops lasting friendships with the group
The success rate of group therapy is higher.
32
Which of the following is a hormone?
Insulin
Dopamine
Endorphins
GABA
33
Jenni invited Mari to a Muse concert. Mari loves Muse but loathes Jenni. What type of conflict?
Approach-avoidance
Multiple approach-avoidance
Avoidance-approach
Approach-approach
34
Wilhelm Wundt's early work led to the theory of
Functionalism
Repression
Gestalt psychology
Structuralism
35
Which of the following is a positive symptom of schizophrenia?
Flat affect
Catatonia
Greater sensitivity towards others
Hallucinations.
36
Which of the following sentences illustrates overgeneralization?
Dani goed to the store.
Homey don't play that game.
Only human beings have the ability to used language
Toby is the fastest boy in the world.
37
Which of the following seems to be least heritable?
Conscientiousness
Hair Color
Religious Beliefs
Heart Disease
38
Jo is a hardworking mom who also at times believes she is a pop star named Kanye. What disorder
Bipolar disorder
Dissociative identity disorder
Schizophrenia
Conversion disorder
39
Dr. Li thinks Tony's anxiety is due to unresolved issues from his youth. Dr. Li would be a:
Humanistic psychologist
Cognitive psychologist
Behaviorist
Psychoanalyst
40
Dr. Doom believes poverty lies at the root of her inner-city clients' mental disorders. This is
Sociocultural perspective
Humanistic perspective
Biomedical perspective
Cognitive perspective
41
During a typical night of sleep, the average adult spends the most time in
stage 1
stage 3
stage 2
REM
42
According to Howard Gardner, which of the following is a type of intelligence?
Fluid
Practical
Naturalist
Experimental
43
Olivia wants to test Mozart's music and math scores. The experimental group would consist of:
Students who have never studies geometry
Students randomly assigned to listen to Mozart
Students randomly not assigned to listen to Mozart
Students who already listen to Mozart
44
One drawback of cross-sectional research is
it is more expensive than most other kinds of research
it is only effective with people in certain economic groups
it takes a long time to complete this type of research
differences between groups can by due to age or to cohorts
45
Rob is trying to make a test that will predict how great someone's potential to be a CEO. Which
Speed test
Achievement test
Power test
Aptitude test
46
Drinking alcohol while pregnant increases the chance that the child
will have a low birth weight.
will have heart disease.
will suffer from mental retardation.
will be born with an addiction to alcohol.
47
Bryan hates his boss, but he's nice to him at work. With cognitive dissonance, he is likely to
Lead him to displace his hostility onto others.
Result in more positive feelings about him boss.
Cause him to work below his potential.
Make him resent his boss.
48
If Lincoln, Gandhi, and Einstein scored poorly on an intelligence test. One would question if
it was normed.
it was reliable.
it was standardized.
it was valid.
49
Noah wants a wife who will love and support him despite all his faults. Carl Rogers says this
is thematic apperception
is reciprocal determinism
is narcissim
is unconditional positive regard
50
According to the partial reinforcement effect,
people prefer certain types of reinforcement
extinction is difficult with intermittent reinforcement
highly desirable rewards are more effective than practical
it's impossible to find a reinforcer for everyone
51
A man asks for a $1000 donation, but the person says no. He then was able to get $25. This is
Foot-in-the-door technique
lowballing technique
Door-in-the face technique
Norms of reciprocity
52
Gonzo raised his hand in class. Which part of the nervous system enabled this action?
Autonomic
Parasympathetic
Sympathetic
Somatic
53
NRA members believe that only a tiny fringe of America favor stronger gun control. This mistake
is the false consensus effect.
is deindividuation.
is the just-world bias.
is an outgroup bias.
54
Dr. Soo wants to prescribe drugs for a patient with GAD. Which drug is most likely to be used?
Tricyclic antidepressants
Thorazine
Haldol
Valium
55
Milgram's obedience study showed that
women are far more obedient than men are.
most people would obey an order to harm people.
absolute obedience was best achieved under hypnosis.
members of a minority group were able to stand up to whites.
56
Kyrie's car breaks down. A woman driving by would be most likely to help her if
the weather is bad.
they are on a desolate country road
they are on a highly trafficked road.
the driver is highly religious.
57
Dan learned five pennies line out is the same as five stacked. Piaget would guess he is how old
1 year
4 years
8 years
2 years
58
Ned is so scared of sexual inadequacy that he has not been on a date in 2 years. Psychoanalyst
issue of overly strong libido.
problem of an anal expulsive personality
problem of the reality principle.
problem with a phallic fixation
59
AP Psych questions are pretested on college students. This group of people are referred to as?
Test population
Standardized sample
Validity testers
Trial group
60
According to the contingency theory of classical conditioning
stronger URs result in better learning.
people learn best when the US precedes the CS
strength of conditioning depends on the CS predicts the US
the more pleasant the CR, the more likely it will be learned
61
Which of the following is a somatoform disorder?
Narcissistic personality disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Conversion disorder
Masochism
62
Which structure is found in the middle ear?
Organ of Corti
Auditory nerve
Cochlea
Stirrup
63
Attachment parenting says babies like to be held all the time. This is in line with whose work?
Harlow
Freud
Piaget
Gilligan
64
Which of the following cognitive tendencies is related to experimenter bias?
The representative heuristic.
Confirmation bias.
Overconfidence.
The availability heuristic.
65
Which of the following is a common symptom of depression?
Abandoning old hobbies and pickings up new ones
Working harder than usual
Eating more than usual
Feeling closer to one's family
66
Tyler finds a strong, negative correlation between hours spent meditating and stress levels.
People with low stress levels meditate more
If a person meditates daily, they will not experience stress
People who meditate tend to have higher stress levels
Meditation lowers stress levels in humans
67
Your knowledge of skills like riding a bike is thought to be stored in which part of the brain?
Amygdala
Cerebral cortex
Cerebellum
Hippocampus
68
When a neuron initially depolarizes
potassium ions flow out of the cell
sodium ions flow into the cell.
chloride ions flow in the cell.
magnesium ions flow into the cell.
69
Which type of scan uses X-ray technology to examine the structure of the brain?
CAT
MRI
PET
EEG
70
Your knowledge of the 1st president of the US is usually found in what level of consciousness?
Conscious
Preconscious
Nonconscious
Subconscious
71
Chaz restarts his computer to get it to print even when it was unplugged one day. This is:
Mental set
Proactive interference
Belief bias
Framing
72
Holly fondly remembers the first time she went skydiving. This is an example of:
procedural memory.
declarative memory.
semantic memory.
implicit memory.
73
What theory suggests that using the term girls to refer to women might affect views of women
Signal detection theory
Linguistic relativity hypothesis
Nativist theory of language
Social learning theory
74
The easiest and most common way to learn about people's personalities is by
using brain scans.
observing people's behavior.
asking people to fill out self-report inventories.
administering projective tests.
75
Which of the following is an example of observational learning?
A girl learns to howl by watching wolves on TV.
A boy learns to make his bed after his parents pay him.
A parrot learns to say mama by listening to its owner.
A kitten learns to chase birds by copying his mother.
76
The part of the brain most responsible for making decisions is the
prefrontal cortex
corpus callosum.
amygdala
thalamus
77
In Tolman's experiment on latent learning, latent learning was shown by
the rats whose performance declined with more trials
the rats whose progress improved steadily with more trials
the rats whose progress never improved significantly
the rats who's progress improved markedly with rewards
78
When a newborn is sleeping, which reflex will be elected by a sudden noise or touch?
Moro
Rooting
Plantar
Babinski
79
After staring at a red and yellow parrot for a minute, what would Ray see for an after image?
A red and yellow parrot
Nothing
A red and green parrot
A green and blue parrot
80
Dr. Lupin gives homework to depressed patients to challenge their deep seeded beliefs. This is
Gestalt therapy
Existential therapy
Rational emotive behavior therapy
Psychoanalytic therapy
81
5 Year old Alondra had never left the city. One day she saw a cow. How did she recognize it?
Difference threshold
Signal detection theory
Bottom-up processing
Perceptual set
82
Infants teach their parents to hold them by crying when they are put down. They this learned by
Latent learning
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Punishment
83
One possible explanation for group polarization is
self-serving bias
out-group bias
self-fulfilling prophecy
diffusion of responsibility
84
Brendan interviews 50 new mothers out of 362 new mothers in Random City. What is his population
New mothers in urban areas in the U.S.
New mothers throughout the world
The 362 new mothers with whom Brendan speaks
The 50 new mothers in Random City
85
Which of the following types of therapies would be classified as insight therapy?
Psychosurgery
Client-centered therapy
Psychopharmacology
Flooding
86
Broca's area is usually located in which part of the cortex?
right temporal lobe
right frontal lobe
left frontal lobe
left temporal lobe
87
Jake is a fun-loving, easy going fellow. He rarely gets angry or upset. Which fits him best?
Type B personality
Self-Actualized
Introverted temperament
Internal locus of control
88
Katelynn, a newborn baby, probably most likes to look at
pastel colored blocks.
her cousin's toy robot.
her stuffed sheep.
her own face.
89
Research suggests that genetic and other biological factors play the greatest role in causing
agoraphobia.
simple phobias.
bipolar disorder.
conversion disorder.
90
Stosh scored a 130 on the WISC. What is his z score and percentile?
2, 98th
2, 90th
0, 50th
-2,2nd
91
Which part of the brain is most important in regulating an animal's sex drive?
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
Medulla
Amygdala
92
In vision, the goal of accommodation is
to focus the image on the retina.
to help the eyes rotate.
to maximize the amount of light that gets through the pupil.
to protect the lens.
93
Which theory of motivation best explains why some people enjoy dangerous activities?
Arousal theory
Drive reduction theory
Incentive theory
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
94
Which of the following factors helps to best explain the increased obesity rate in the U.S.?
The sedentary nature of modern jobs
The increase in the length of the workday
The changing gene pool
The lack of opportunities to exercise
95
According to the James-Lange theory of emotion
Different emotions come from different interpretations.
Emotions are expressed the same way across cultures.
The thalamus is the key part of the brain for emotion.
Physiological reaction triggers the recognition of emotion.
96
To safeguard participant's rights, prior to collecting any data, researchers seek approval from
at least two licensed psychiatrists
the APA
an Institutional Review Board
Everyone on the research team
97
Creativity is most closely associated with
Excellent recall ability
Functional fixedness
Using algorithms
Divergent thinking
98
Tom is a Type A person who wants short-term help. What type of therapy would work best for him?
Behaviorist
Humanist
Psychodynamic
Sociocultural
99
Which of the following people demonstrates the most achievement motivation?
Lars works 80 hours a week to pay for all of the toys he has
Joey is a carpenter who desperately wants to find a wife.
Paul wants to make enough money as a chef to work part-time
Nino works extra hours in order to be a good worker
100
Paul noticed while driving objects nearby passed faster than those at a distance. This is:
Texture gradient
Motion parallax
Phi Phenomenon
Relative speed
101
Which of the following groups would have the highest standard deviation in IQ scores?
Girls who attend a small, single-sex, private high school
Elementary school students in a large, public school
The graduating class at Princeton
A special program for kids who suffer from Down syndrome
