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UNIT 1-7 REVIEW AP PSYCH
UNIT 1-7 REVIEW AP PSYCH
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UNIT 1-7 REVIEW
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1
Early school of thought that explored how mental and behavioral processes function.
Functionalism
Experimental Psychology
Structuralism
Behaviorism
2
Which drug or drug group inhibits arousal centers?
Barbituates
Cocaine
Ecstasy
Hallucinogens
3
Neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord
Motor Neurons
Sensory Neurons
Afferent Neurons
Interneurons
4
Blinking in response to a disturbance to the eye is an example of what?
Unconditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Response
Unconditioned Reponse
5
What form of research determines a definitive cause and effect?
Survey
Naturalistic Observation
Case Study
Experimentation
6
Who established the first psychology laboratory?
William James
John Locke
G. Stanley Hall
Wilhelm Wundt
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At what point in the eye is there no detection of light because there aren't any receptor cells
Blind Spot
Optic Nerve
Lens
Fovea
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What is the layer of tissue that encases and protects the neuron's axon?
Dendrite
Myelin Sheath
Neurotransmitter
Synapse
9
What psychologist argued behaviors with favorable consequences were more likely and vice versa?
John B. Watson
Ivan Pavlov
Edward Thorndike
B. F. Skinner
10
Descriptive statistics are numerical data allowing one to generalize the probability of truth.
TRUE
FALSE
11
What is long-term potentiation (LTP)?
Decrease in potential memory storage with advanced age.
Decrease in cell's firing potential after rapid stimulation.
Increase in cell's firing potential after rapid stimulation.
Increase in potential memory storage with advanced age.
12
Which of the following is NOT a type of method used to test hypotheses?
Correlational
Experimental
Observational
Descriptive
13
The study of relationships between the physical and psychological characteristics of stimuli.
Transduction
Priming
Sensation/Perception Studies
Psychophysics
14
Which of the following is a primary benefit of sleeping well?
Limits mutation potential
Fosters creative thinking
Inhibits intelligence
Recuperation
15
The initial linking of a neutral and unconditioned stimulus so the neutral one causes response.
Extinction
Classical Conditioning
Generalization
Acquisition
16
Learning French after already learning Spanish may be difficult do to which of the following?
Generalization
Proactive Interference
Decay
Retroactive Interference
17
If I can pick up a smell faster than you, which is most likely lower for me?
Absolute Threshold
Difference Threshold
Tolerance Level
Adaptation Level
18
Which of the following creates doesn't hallucinatory imagery or experiences?
Dreams
Narcolepsy
Night Terrors
Nightmares
19
Which structure provides a major link between the nervous and endocrine systems?
Hypothalamus
Reticular Formation
Amygdala
Cerebellum
20
Which of the following is not a measure of retention?
Recall
Recognition
Relearning
Remembrance