AP Psych 3rd Quarter Review

Question 1

An individual's durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations is her

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personality.

Question 2

Who emphasized that slips of the tongue often reveal the personality dynamics?

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Freud

Question 3

Cognitive development is to Jean Piaget as moral development is to ____

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Lawrence Kohlberg

Question 4

Boys first begin producing sperm during

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puberty

Question 5

The term used for biological growth processes that are relatively uninfluenced by experience is

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maturation

Question 6

What personality type is relaxed and laid back?

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Type B

Question 7

Projective tests are most closely associated with the ________ perspective.

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psychoanalytic

Question 8

A response involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience

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Emotion

Question 9

Walter Mischel emphasized the importance of _______________ in determining behavior.

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situations

Question 10

Our body's biological clock, regulates sleeping and waking

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Circadian Rhythm

Question 11

This inverted U-model demonstrates the

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

Question 12

Emotional instability is most closely related to the Big Five trait dimension of

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neuroticism.

Question 13

What did Ekman's research on facial expressions show?

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Innate emotions are expressed & understood around the world

Question 14

According to Kohlberg, morality based on the avoidance of punishment is

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preconventional

Question 15

Theory that physiological arousal causes us to feel emotions

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James-Lange Theory

Question 16

What test is often used by psychologists to determine a subject's need for achievement?

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Thematic Apperception Test

Question 17

Which of the following is a self-report inventory designed for diagnosis of disorders?

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MMPI

Question 18

Securely attached people exhibit less

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fear of failure.

Question 19

Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development focused on children working on reaching and expanding their

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zone of proximate development (ZPD)

Question 20

Habituation refers to the

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decreasing response to stimulus which one repeatedly exposed

Question 21

Infant monkeys raised with a nourishing wire mother and a nonnourishing cloth mother

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preferred the nonnourishing cloth mother.

Question 22

Physiological need creates aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy a need

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Drive-reduction theory

Question 23

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs states that this is the most basic level of motivation

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Physiological Needs

Question 24

Early sign of Alzheimer's disease would most likely be

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forgetting newly learned info after a brief period.

Question 25

Which of the following correctly states what happens in the exhaustion phase of the GAS?

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Susceptible to illness

Question 26

Japanese culture emphasizes the suppression of negative emotions in public. This is an example of a

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display rule

Question 27

A polygraph works by

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monitoring physiological indicies of autonomic arousal

Question 28

Which psychoanalytic theorist emphasized feelings of inferiority?

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Alfred Adler

Question 29

A teratogen is a(n)

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toxin which harms an unborn child

Question 30

A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species

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Instinct

Question 31

Puberty is most closely related to the onset of

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menarche.

Question 32

Person who is helpful and trusting most clearly ranks high on the Big Five trait known as

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agreeableness.

Question 33

Darlene smoked heavily during the entire 9 months of her pregnancy. Her newborn baby will most likely be

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underweight

Question 34

A person who is careless & disorganized probably ranks low on the Big Five trait dimension of

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conscientiousness.

Question 35

Tendency of facial states to trigger corresponding feelings, such as fear, anger, or happiness

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Facial Feedback Effect

Question 36

Stress is a consistent predictor of shorter telomere length. Shortened telomeres

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set the aging process in motion

Question 37

Which of the following might differ between cultures?

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Hand gestures

Question 38

What is a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior?

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Incentive

Question 39

The speed of neurotransmission in the frontal lobe increases during adolescence because of the growth of

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myelin.

Question 40

Boredom is best explained by which theory of motivation?

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Arousal

Question 41

Expression of feelings that are the opposite of unconscious feelings?

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reaction formation

Question 42

According to Maslow, the desire to fulfill one's potential is the motivation for

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self-actualization.

Question 43

According to Bandura, reciprocal determinism involves multidirectional influences among

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behaviors, cognition, and environment.

Question 44

Prenatal development includes these stages in order:

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germinal, embryonic, fetal

Question 45

What characteristics of Type A personalities make them more vulnerable to heart disease?

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Becoming irritated over daily hassels

Question 46

Carl Jung emphasized the importance of ________ in personality functioning.

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the collective unconscious

Question 47

What is a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal?

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Motivation

Question 48

What region of the brain is responsible for detecting emotional responses, especially fear?

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Amygdala

Question 49

According to Eysenck, personality traits could be broken into these dimensions

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extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism

Question 50

Providing children with a safe haven in times of stress contributes most directly to

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secure attachment.

Question 51

According to Erikson, isolation is to intimacy as role confusion is to

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identity

Question 52

According to Carl Rogers, people nurture our growth by showing

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unconditional positive regard.

Question 53

A clear memory of an emotionally significant event

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Flashbulb memory

Question 54

A young child deprived of parental care & attention is likely at risk for developing

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insecure attachments.

Question 55

A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage is

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fixation.

Question 56

Gender differences are group differences that indicate

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little about individuals.

Question 57

Mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects defines

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conservation

Question 58

The two-factor theory of emotion involves physiological arousal and which of the following?

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Cognition

Question 59

This test would be characterized as a _____ test.

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Projective

Question 60

The sympathetic nervous system activates arousal, while your parasympathetic nervous does what?

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Calms you down

Question 61

Marcia expanded on Erikson's __________ stage.

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identity-role confusion

Question 62

Which of the following represents the correct order of Piaget's stage

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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, formal

Question 63

Bernie cares about young people as a teacher. Erikson proposes Bernie experiences a sense of

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generativity

Question 64

Freud's part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong (conscience) is the

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superego.

AP Psych 3rd Quarter Review

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AP Psych 3rd Quarter Review

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