AP Psych First Semester Final Exam 2022

Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the

Parents & kids have similar intelligence because of common genes. This idea is a

If you burn your finger, _____ transmit pain-triggering signals to your central nervous system.

See a speaker mouth day, hear someone say may, perceive bay

Breathing stops during sleep

until reading question, you were unaware of your shoes. The focus of conscious attention shows

The ability to recognize faces with the right but not with the left hemisphere best illustrates

Watson's contributions to the study of learning

If more intelligent parents have smarter children, this would demonstrate that

Research suggests that men

After listening to your high-volume stereo for 15 minutes, you fail to realize how loud it is

Chromosomes are located within human

The occipital lobes are to ________ as the temporal lobes are to ________.

Examining abstract art by looking carefully at each element in the picture

If accused of cheating, your adrenal glands would release ________ into your bloodstream.

Compared with identical twins, fraternal twins are

To experience the pain of a sprained ankle, ____ relay messages from ankle to CNS

By amplifying soft sounds but not loud sounds, digital hearing aids produce

Hitler's emotional instability made it clear that Germany would lose WWII. This illustrates

The best way to test the true effectiveness of a new method of psychological therapy is

Which philosopher is most well known for theorizing that the mind at birth is a “blank slate”?

The region of your cerebral cortex that enables you to recognize a person as your own mother is

Which process would best enables one to assess the reliability of findings?

Which approach assesses the impact of nature & nurture on our psychological traits?

Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ________.

A player can tell the distance and movements of others. This shows activity of multiple

first experimental studies of associative learning

Ted is afraid of spiders and thinks it is genetic. From a biopsychosocial approach, he should

Prozac prevents the sending neuron from taking in excess serotonin. What does it prevent?

faster heartbeat, fast and irregular breathing, eyes darting back and forth

Best way to study the relationship between poor prenatal nutrition and cognitive development

She was listening to the radio, and Mrs. Schultz didn't perceive a word her husband was saying

The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called

Pavlov's research on classical conditioning

“I don't understand why we are studying the brain in psychology class.” Your response:

Taste and smell are both what kind of senses?

Process of receiving and representing stimulus energies through the nervous system

Which makes finding statistical significance more likely?

As the retinal image gets bigger, it will not appear to get bigger.

An accelerated heartbeat is to a slowed heartbeat as the ______ ns is to the ________ ns.

Sara scans the section headings and notices how the units are organized. Her strategy is

Randomly select 800 students from a university. What do we call ALL of the students?

B. F. Skinner's critics: he neglected the importance of the individual's

Which two questions exemplify the scientific attitude?

Reinforcement schedule of state lottery tickets

Six students spent $10, $13, $2, $12, $13, and $4. The mode of this group's expenditures is

Mr. and Mrs. Berry have five children aged 2, 3, 7, 9, and 9. The median age is

The peripheral nervous system is to sensory neurons as the central nervous system is to

Which of the following correlations would enable you to make the most accurate prediction?

Why is Wilhelm Wundt often considered the first scientific psychological researcher?

Minimizes likelihood outcome differences can be attributed to confounding variables

A drug that relaxes people and enables them to more freely disclose personally embarrassing experiences

Working nights is likely to disrupt your

Which plays the biggest role in feeling dizzy and unbalanced after a roller coaster ride?

Researchers continue to study Phineas Gage's brain. Which research method is being used?

decreases the behavior that precedes

Hypothalamus and sleep

Who would be most likely to emphasize the role of the unconscious in affecting behavior?

superstitious behavior

Introduced the term behaviorism

The sequence of brain regions from the evolutionarily oldest to newest is

classical conditioning

Some opiate drugs mimic endorphin's euphoric effects, making them which kind of molecule?

Learned fears reflect the inborn emotional reactivity, family life history, and previous experience

Cocking your head would be most useful for detecting the ______ of a sound.

Which of the following is true for those assigned to the experimental group in an experiment?

Henri and Sylvia each ate 10 candy bars. Jerry ate 8, Tricia ate 6, & Tahli ate 1. The mean is