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