End of Year AP Exam Review Quiz

What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: Who am I?

Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?

What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called.....

Which kind of drugs depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but impairing memory?

Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur at the same time?

An anxiety disorder characterized by repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...

Asch's experiment demonstrate what psychological concept?

Gardner, Sternberg and Wechsler are all linked to this topic in psychology.

The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is.....

In Pavlov's experiments, what is the conditioned stimulus?

Crediting primarily someone's disposition to explain their behavior is due to.....

What is the reappearance after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?

Which of the following is NOT a projective test?

Which structure of the brain helps process explicit memories for storage?

What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?

Which perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store and retrieve information?

False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders are....

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is.....

A robin is a _________ of bird.

Which of the following is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?

What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?

Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain areas consumption of glucose?

According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and the underlying meaning of a dream?

What is the tendency to overestimate the extent which others share our beliefs and behaviors?

Chomsky, Loftus, Kohler and Ebbinghaus are all associated with this psychological perspective.

Who argued that the mind at birth is a blank slate?

What is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself?

Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?

Which one does not belong?

What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?

Which of the following is associated with the study of consciousness?

The perception that one controls one's own fate is known as....

Milgram's experiments had "shocking" results of very high levels of....

What is a person'scharacteristic emotional reactivity and intensity?

Which one does not belong?

Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?

The behavior measured in Bandura's Bobo Doll study was

Which stage of Freud's psychosexual stages is characterized by dormant sexual feelings?

Which personality type is competitive, impatient, verbally-aggressive, and anger prone?

Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others is known as....

Which observation technique studies one person in depth in the hope of showing universal ideas?

which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?

Which person is associated with ideas related to classical conditioning?

What illusion does the phi phenomenon cretae?

Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as....

What is the fertilized egg that enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division?

A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...

What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?

Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?

Client-centered therapy falls under which perspective?

Which pair of researchers discovered feature detectors?

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as....

Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?

Which of the following conducted an experiment related to the brain?