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AP Psychology Review #3
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This quiz is a review for AP Psychology students preparing to take the AP test or final exam!
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1
Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?
Bottom-up processing
Critical Thinking
Top-down processing
Perception
2
Getting a hug (after a response) is an example of what?
Shaping
Positive Reinforcement
Conditioning
Negative Reinforcement
3
Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
Dopamine
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Serotonin
Norepinephrine
4
What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?
Imagination
Memory Construction
Misinformation Effect
Amnesia
5
Which study compares people of different ages?
Case Study
Experiment
Longitudinal Study
Cross-Sectional Study
6
What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?
Fovea
Pupil
Ganglion Cell
Optic Nerve
7
A robin is a ______ of bird.
Prototype
Algorithm
Heuristic
categorization
8
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as...
resistance
psychotherapy
repression
transference
9
Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Cochlea
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Outer Ear
10
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?
Acquisition
Spontaneous Recovery
Generalization
Extinction
11
According to Piaget, during what stage does one develop object permanence?
Formal Operational
Preoperational
Sensorimotor
Concrete Operational
12
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as...
Linguistic Determinism
Hindsight Bias
Language Construction
Perception of Language`
13
What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?
Speed
Distance
Movement
Texture Gradience
14
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...
Non-Declarative Memory
Implicit Memory
Explicit Memory
Procedural
15
Systematic desensitization is what kind of therapy?
Cognitive
Active Listening
Counterconditioning
Exposure
16
What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?
Basic Definition
Operational Defintion
Classical Definition
Hypothesis
17
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...
Phobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
None of the Above
PTSD
18
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is known as...
Intelligence
Personality
Self-Esteem
Character
19
According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?
Middle Adulthood ( 40s-60s)
Infancy (to 1 year)
Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)
Toddlerhood (1-2 years)
20
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...
Spacing
Chunking
Encoding
Processing
21
What is known as the "Aha!" moment?
Confirmation Bias
Heuristics
Divergent Thinking
Insight
22
A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...
None of the Above
Specific Intelligence
Savant Syndrome
General Intelligence
23
Which method of coping attempts to alleviate stress directly?
None of the Above
Coping
Emotiong-Focused Coping
Problem-Focused Coping
24
Which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?
None of the Above
Standardized Test
Achievement Test
Aptitude Test
25
Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?
Axon
Cell Body
Dendrite
Myelin Sheath
26
Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?
Salivation Decreases
Digestion Inhibits
Heart Accelerates
Pupils Contract
27
What are the threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes?
Genes
DNA
Chromosomes
Genomes
28
Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose?
EEG
MRI
PET
fMRI
29
What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?
Social Clock
Biological Rhythms
Circadian Rhythm
REM Sleep
30
What is a desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people, or ideas?
Incentive
Extrinsic Motivation
Achievement Motivation
Satisfaction Motivation
31
A correlation coefficient of +.95 signifies...
A weak, positive correlation
No Relationship
A strong, positive correlation
No Correlation
32
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...
Observable Behavior
The Human Mind
Behavior and Mental Processes
Emotions
33
Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?
Behavioral
Psychoanalytic
Cognitive
Humanistic
34
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes are classified as...
Mood Disorders
Bipolar Disorders
Major Personality Disorders
Mania Disorders
35
What is the fertilized egg that enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division?
Embryo
Fetus
Zygote
Uterus
36
Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?
James-Lange
Schachter-Singer
Cannon-Bard
Two-Factor
37
What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?
Gender-Typing
Gender Role
Gender Identity
Gender Schema Theory
38
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...
Set Point
Basal Heart Rate
Basal Metabolic Rate
Psychology of Hunger
39
What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: 'Who am I?'
Self-Concept
Identity
Role
Egocentrism
40
Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?
Illusory Correlation
Cause and Effect
Overconfidence
Pattern Seeking
41
The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...
Internal Locus of Control
External Locus of Control
Learned Hopefulness
Personal Control
42
The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?
Relative Size
convergence
Interposition
Texture Gradient
43
A revoked driver's license is an example of what?
Negative Punishment
Negative Reinforcement
Operant Conditioning
Positive Punishment
44
The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is
Flow
Real-Life Psychology
Workforce Psychology
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
45
What is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behavior?
Overconfidence
Illusory Correlation
Hindsight Bias
False Consensus Effect
46
Who famously argued that the mind at birth is a blank slate- a "white paper?"
Plato
John Locke
Socrates
Wilhelm Wundt
47
Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...
All of the Above
Normative Social Influence
Obedience
Conformity
48
Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?
interpretation
transference
functionalism
eclectic
