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Final AP Psychology Review
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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
According to Piaget, during what stage does one develop object permanence?
Sensorimotor
Formal Operational
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
2
True or False: High reliability ensures a test's validity.
True
False
3
Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?
Cannon-Bard
Two-Factor
Schachter-Singer
James-Lange
4
What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?
Speed
Distance
Movement
Texture Gradience
5
What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?
Rods/Cones
Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black
Red/Green/Blue
Red/Yellow, Green/Bue, Black/White
6
What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?
Optic Nerve
Pupil
Ganglion Cell
Fovea
7
Who famously argued that the mind at birth is a blank slate- a "white paper?"
Wilhelm Wundt
John Locke
Socrates
Plato
8
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...
Observable Behavior
Behavior and Mental Processes
The Human Mind
Emotions
9
Which of the following in NOT a "Big Five" personality trait?
Openness
Agreeableness
None of the Above
Extraversion
10
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders are...
schizophrenia
delusions
hallucinations
belief perseverance
11
Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?
Top-down processing
Perception
Bottom-up processing
Critical Thinking
12
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as...
psychotherapy
resistance
repression
transference
13
People from which type of culture may act shy in new groups and are more easily embarrassed?
Western
Collectivist
Northern
Individualistic
14
Which study compares people of different ages?
Experiment
Case Study
Cross-Sectional Study
Longitudinal Study
15
Which kind of drugs depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but impairing memory?
Stimulants
amphetamines
Hallucinogens
Barbiturates
16
Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?
Cause and Effect
Illusory Correlation
Overconfidence
Pattern Seeking
17
The diagram below is an example of what idea?
Homeostasis
Incentive Theory
Drive-Reduction Theory
Hierarchy of Needs
18
A robin is a ______ of bird.
Heuristic
categorization
Algorithm
Prototype
19
A correlation coefficient of +.95 signifies...
No Correlation
A weak, positive correlation
A strong, positive correlation
No Relationship
20
What is the ability of produce novel and valuable ideas?
Intelligence
Divergent Thinking
Confidence
Creativity
21
What is the complete genetic instructions for making an organism?
DNA
Genome
Neurons
Genes
22
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...
PTSD
None of the Above
Phobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
23
Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...
Obedience
Normative Social Influence
All of the Above
Conformity
24
The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Real-Life Psychology
Workforce Psychology
Flow
25
A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...
Specific Intelligence
Savant Syndrome
None of the Above
General Intelligence
26
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...
Declarative Memory
Implicit Memory
Both Explicit and Declarative
Explicit Memory
27
What is the fertilized egg that enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division?
Embryo
Uterus
Zygote
Fetus
28
What is the body's speedy, electrochemical communication network?
Endocrine System
Nervous System
Digestive System
Limbic System
29
What are the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state?
Hallucinations
Delta
Alpha
Beta
30
Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others is known as...
Deindividuation
Social Facilitation
Group Polarization
Social Loafing
31
The diagram below depicts which theory of emotion?
Two-Factor
Cannon-Bard
James-Lange
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
32
A revoked driver's license is an example of what?
Negative Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Negative Punishment
Operant Conditioning
33
According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?
Toddlerhood (1-2 years)
Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)
Infancy (to 1 year)
Middle Adulthood ( 40s-60s)
34
What determines the hue of light?
Wavelength
hight
Intensity
Amplitude
35
Which perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
Psychodynamic
Evolutionary
Social-Cultural
Cognitive
36
What are the threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes?
Genomes
DNA
Genes
Chromosomes
37
Which of the following are structures of the limbic system?
Cerebellum
Medulla/Pons
Amygdala/Hypothalamus
Thalamus
38
What is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself?
Relative Deprivation
Hindsight Bias
Envy Theory
Adaptation-Level Phenomenon
39
Which structure of the brain helps process explicit memories for storage?
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Thalamus
Amygdala
40
Which of the following is NOT a projective test?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Themantic Apperception Test (TAT)
None of the Above
Rorscharch Inkblot Test
41
Client-centered therapy falls under which perspective?
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Active Listening
Behavioral
42
Which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?
None of the Above
Aptitude Test
Standardized Test
Achievement Test
43
What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?
Imagination
Memory Construction
Misinformation Effect
Amnesia
44
Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose?
MRI
EEG
fMRI
PET
45
True or False: Aerobic exercise may alleviate depression and anxiety.
False
True
46
According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and underlying meaning of a dream?
Latent Content and Matent Content
Manifest Content and Latent Content
Sleep Apnea and Night Terrors
REM and Hypnosis
47
Systematic desensitization is what kind of therapy?
Counterconditioning
Exposure
humanistic
Active Listening
48
Getting a hug (after a response) is an example of what?
Negative Reinforcement
Shaping
Positive Reinforcement
Conditioning
49
According to Kohlberg, one obeys either to avoid punishment or gain rewards during which stage?
Conventional
Initiative vs. Guilt
Preconventional
Postconventional
50
The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?
Texture Gradient
convergence
Interposition
Relative Size
51
Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?
Cognitive
Behavioral
Humanistic
Psychoanalytic
52
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?
Extinction
Generalization
Acquisition
Spontaneous Recovery
53
In Pavlov's experiments, what is the conditioned stimulus?
Food
None of the Above
Sound of Bell
Salivation
54
The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is...
Modeling
Mirroring
Observing
Learning
55
Which observation technique studies one person in depth in the hope of showing universal ideas?
Experiment
Longitudinal Study
Survey
Case Study
56
Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Cochlea
Outer Ear
57
What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?
Biological Rhythms
Social Clock
REM Sleep
Circadian Rhythm
58
What is a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity that they are born with?
Temperament
Attitude
Rooting Reflex
Personality
59
What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?
Gender Schema Theory
Gender-Typing
Gender Role
Gender Identity
60
Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
Serotonin
Norepinephrine
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Dopamine
61
The word 'but' has how many phonemes?
4
2
3
1
62
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is...
Sematics
Phoneme
Syntax
Morpheme
63
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...
Chunking
Spacing
Encoding
Processing
64
The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...
Internal Locus of Control
External Locus of Control
Learned Hopefulness
Personal Control
65
Who concluded that the mind is separable from the body, and that knowledge is innate?
William James
Aristotle
Wilhelm Wundt
Socrates
66
Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?
interpretation
eclectic
transference
functionalism
67
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is known as...
Self-Esteem
Intelligence
Character
Personality
68
Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?
Axon
Cell Body
Myelin Sheath
Dendrite
69
The picture below is an example of what concept?
Connectedness
Continuity
Proximity
None of the Above
70
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...
Psychology of Hunger
Set Point
Basal Metabolic Rate
Basal Heart Rate
71
What is the tendency of people to be helpful when already in a good mood?
Catharsis
Intrinsic Motivation
Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon
Happiness Effect
72
Asch's experiments exhibit what psychological concept?
Conformity
Overconfidence
Cognitive Dissonance
Hindsight Bias
73
What is known as the "Aha!" moment?
Confirmation Bias
Heuristics
Insight
Divergent Thinking
74
Which of the following is NOT one of Garner's eight intelligences?
Naturalist
Linguistic
Interpersonal
Practical
75
What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?
Operational Defintion
Basic Definition
Classical Definition
Hypothesis
76
Which stage of Freud's psychosexual stages is characterized by dormant sexual feelings?
Dormant
Oral
Latency
Phallic
77
The picture below portrays what idea?
Grouping Principles
Visual Cliff
Binocular Cues
Depth Perception
78
Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?
Heart Accelerates
Digestion Inhibits
Pupils Contract
Salivation Decreases
