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a #psychology quiz to study for #apexam -10th grade AP Exam
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Looking for yogurt so you check every single aisle in the grocery mart
Heuristic
Algorithm
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The Process of Classical Conditioning (more than 1)
Restoration
Spontaneous Recovery
Extinction
Acquisition
3
Louis can remember his past but cant form new long term memories since brain infection 4 yrs ag
Retrograde Amnesisa
Anterograde Amnesia
4
hippocampus
arousal
memory
heart rate and breathing
coordination and balance
5
The difference between autonomic and somatic is that somatic _____.
arousal
voluntary
uncontrollable
is anger
6
Semicircular canals and vestibular sacs contain fluid to accommodate your sense of ____.
Balance
Hearing
Motion
Awareness
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Who established the first psychological lab?
John Locke
Ivan Pavlov
Wilhelm Wundt
Rene Descartes
8
___is most affected by extreme scores
mean
median
range
mode
9
pons
neural system with emotions and drives
sensory control except for smell
coordinated movement; above medulla
emotion; aggression and fear
10
Pitch place theory
links pitch with where the cochlea is stimulated
Neural cells alternate firing
rate of neural impulses matches pitch
11
Which strange situation paradigms are correctly matched?
AMBIVALENT: avoids mom but freaks out when leaves
SECURE: upset when mom leaves, easily calmed when returns
AVOIDANT: avoids mom but freaks out when leaves
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Lateral Hypothalamus
when stimulated you feel full
when stimulated you feel hungry
when damaged you never stop eating
when damaged you never feel hungry again
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Personality Disorders
Antisocial- disregard for others, manipulative, break laws
Borderline- instable relationship & self, i h8 u but dont go
Histroinic- excessive emotion& attention seeking "slut dis"
Narcissism - self obsessed and lack of epathy
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the prototype of a bird would most likely be...
dodo bird
owl
ostrich
robin
15
amygdala
neural system with emotions and drives
coordinated movement; above medulla
emotion; aggression and fear
sensory control except for smell
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thalamus
sensory control except for smell
coordinated movement; above medulla
neural system with emotions and drives
emotion; aggression and fear
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Dissociative Identity
Legitimacy is often doubted
NOT SCHIZOPHRENIA
usually caused by childhood abuse
several personalities who normally are not aware of others
18
Habituation is..
responding to stimuli habitually
organism associates stimuli
organism's decreasing response due to exposure
creating habits
19
What fluid-filled tube in inner ear triggers nerve impulses?
Cochlea
Hammer
Stirrup
Anvil
20
Parapsychology
telepathy
hypnosis
precognition
clairvoyance
21
The unconditioned stimuli
is operant conditioning
triggers no response
triggers taught response
triggers natural response
22
Who invented the medical model?
Dorothea Dix
Karen Horney
23
Pitch Frequency theory
Neural cells alternate firing
links pitch with where the cochlea is stimulated
rate of neural impulses matches pitch
24
An example of intrinsic motivation would be...
to avoid grounding
an upcoming deadline
curiosity
GPA
25
Classical conditioning is..
when an organism associates a stimuli
removing adversive stimulus
relationship between new and old info
tendency to recall info at end
26
Erikson's principle of____is when one feels safe in the world
Basic Trust
Integrity
Identity
Autonomy
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What would a counselor most likely
not
do?
helps people develop skills to cope
works with families going through a death
work with children whose parents are divorcing
help people make good decisions towards physical well being
28
Convergent Thinking
creativity
expands number of solutions
lack of creativity
narrows down to best solution
29
Phrenology
study of brain activity
study of skulls shape to associate with functions
study of learning potential
study of behaviors to associate with personality
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Which perspective would focus on encoding, storing and retrieval of information affects us?
Behavioral
Sociocultural
Cognitive
Humanistic
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Type B
laid back
non stressed
calm
at risk for heart disease
32
Who proposed that nerves allow for reflexes?
John Locke
Rene Descartes
Ivan Pavlov
Wilhelm Wundt
33
Law Of Effect: behaviors with good consequences increase in frequency (and decreases with bad)
Thorndike
Bandura
Pavlov
Watson
34
Which is a negative correlation?
As studying hours go down, so do test scores
Students' shoe size is not related to grades
People who spend more hours studying, use more paper in math
people who run more, weigh less
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medulla
arousal
memory
heart rate and breathing
coordination and balance
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Experiences influence our interpretation of data
Top down processing
Bottom up processing
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Albert Bandura
Bobo doll experiment
studied concept of modeling
aggression is purely genetic
aggression is learned
38
Visual Organization
Grouping
Gestalt
Figure-Ground
Schemas
39
limbic system
coordinated movement; above medulla
emotion; aggression and fear
sensory control except for smell
neural system with emotions and drives
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After the student council election, Bill tells you he knew all along who was going to win.
Hindsight bias
Overconfidence
Self serving bias
Intelligence
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In normal distibution, ___ falls within 1 standard deviation on either side of mean?
83
54
34
68
42
____is a measure of variation
mode
mean
median
range
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agonists are ____ while antagonists are ____.
stimulating; blocking
slowing down rate; increasing rate
blocking; stimulating
increasing rate; slowing down rate
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TRUE OR FALSE: emotion weakens memory
true
false
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Generalization is____while discrimination is____.
incorporating mislead info; sim stimuli = same response
ability to distinguish; incorporate misleading info
sim stimuli elicits same response; ability to distinguish
ability to distinguish; sim stimuli elicits same response
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Somatoform Disorders; Def and/or Examples
psychological disorders with no apparent cause
disorders with weak causes
Hypochondriacs
Conversion Disorder
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Dopamine
parkinsons, schizophrenia
depression, autism
pleasure
memory
48
Which are 3 of the 5 stages of Denial?
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Repression
49
opposing retinal processes; red-green, yellow-blue, white-black; enable color vision
opponent-process theory
young-helmholts theory
50
You jump into an ice cold pool but five minutes later, you tell your friend,"it's not that bad.
Habituation
Sensory Adaptation
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endorphins
block out pain
arousal
pleasure
memory
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Which is a variable ratio?
every five days= clothes
every 5 button pushes = food
winning lottery once and never playing again
gambling
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broca's area is to ___ as wernicke's area is to ____.
understanding; speaking
plasticity; personality
speaking; understanding
personality; plasticity
54
Who studied taste aversion and in what animals was this study conducted?
Garcia; rats
Bandura; wolves
Garcia; wolves
Bandura; rats
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You're in a parking lot ad 2 am when a thief jumps you with a knife. What would arouse you?
Parasympathetic
Somatic
Sympathetic
Autonomic
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Elephants appear to remember large scale spaces over long period of time? what is this ability?
flashbulb memory
cognitive map
kinetic spatial awareness
insight
57
Kinesthesia is ___ while Vestibular Sense is____.
The Same Thing
Both sense of body, motion and position but V.S = balance 2
system of balance and motion; sensing position
system for sensing position; sense of balance and motion
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Sensation vs Perception
analysis that begins with receptors and works up
process by our receptors; process of organization
focusing on conscious-unconscious stimuli
process of organization; process by receptors
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Cones
concentrated near center; fine details and color
central focal point in retina
carries neural impulse from eye to brain
detect black, white, grey; twilight and peripheral vision
60
cerebellum
memory
arousal
coordination and balance
heart rate and breathing
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human-factors study interaction of people and machines OR application of concepts in work?
Application of concept in workplace
Interaction of people and machines
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Divergent Thinking
creativity
narrows down to best solution
lack of creativity
expands number of solutions
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Theory X Management vs Theory Y Management
manager gives employees responsibility; manger controls
manager controls; manger gives employees responsilty
good for higher level jobs; good for lower level jobs
good for lower level jobs; good for higher level jobs
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what is better for long term memory?
Semantic
Echoic
Deep
Shallow
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You lack the connection between your right and left hemispheres? What were you born without?
Cerebral cortex
medulla
broca's area
corpus collosum
66
transduction
conversion of one form on energy into another
type of neuron
intensity of neural impluse
using energy to move limbs
67
Why was the baby experiment for depth perception being innate or not, not fully accurate?
babies were too scared to move
babies lives were long enough to already learn depth
movement was limited to test at younger ages
babies would not cooperate
68
a researcher finds that 5% chance her results are due to chance?
minimum result; considered statistically significant
chance is not related to statistical significance
well beyond range of statistical significance
not statistically significant
69
Adrenal
stomach; glucose
brain; growth
neck; metabolism
stomach; fight/flight
70
Type A
at risk for heart disease
laid back
easily frustrated
stressful
71
teens today are....
desensitized to violence
afraid of violence
72
Mental Predisposition to perceive one way and not another
Perceptual Set
Bias
Framing
Parapsychologists
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Who questioned personal freedom, saying that "one's actions are controlled by external forces"?
Thorndike
Pavlov
Gardner
Skinner
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Carol Gilligan said moral thinking and moral behavior are______.
2 Different Things; you don't always do what you should do
The same thing; you believe something so you do it
75
Ivan Pavlov
little Albert experiment
psychoanalist
trained dog to salivate at sound of tone, = food
behaviorist
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Explicit memory is mostly associated with what two areas?
amygdala
hypothalamus
hippocampus
frontal lobes
77
Behaviorism is..
view that behaviors are not important to understanding
view that mental process is most important aspect
view that psychology is based on self-thoughts
view that psychology should be objective
78
Kolhberg's Morality Development: Post-Conventional
follow rules because they know they exist and to keep order
follow rules they agree with and go against rules when dont
follow rules to avoid punishment
79
Truths about Pain
chronic pain can not be treated
women are less pain sensitive than men
feelings can be diminished by distractions or endorphins
80
Which sense takes the longest to develop?
Vision
Taste
Smell
81
Weber's Law
signals you cant detect 50% of the time
principle that to be perceived, differ by constant minimum %
minimum stimulation 50%
diminished sensitivity as consequence of repetition
82
Ventromedial Hypothalamus
when damaged you never stop eating
when stimulated you feel hungry
when damaged you never feel hungry again
when stimulated you feel full
83
Occipital and temporal are which functions, respectfully?
speaking; sensory complex
visual cortex; auditory cortex
sensory complex; speaking
auditory cortex; visual cortex
84
reticular formation
coordination and balance
heart rate and breathing
memory
arousal
85
Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that______.
are more commonly hired
are licensed to prescribe medication
are not licensed to prescribe medication
are paid more
86
What did Harry Harlow discover?
contact comfort doesn't matter as much as physiological need
Comfort is more important than physiological needs
comfort and physio. both must be given 4 child 2 attach
Comfort and physiological don't impact attachment
87
determined by peak one light/sound wave to the peak of the next
Wavelength
Intensity
Brightness
Frequency
88
Erikson's Crisis that occurs in adolescence.
Intimacy VS Isolation
Integrity vs Despair
Identity Vs Role Confusion
Initiative vs Guilt
89
Which of the following is mot important when conducting survey research?
Choosing large sample
choosing sample whose answers will support hypothesis
Having every member of the population
having representative sample
90
Rods
detect black, white, grey; twilight and peripheral vision
central focal point in retina
carries neural impulse from eye to brain
concentrated near center; fine details and color
91
Mood Disorders
Seasonal Affective Disorder; depressed in darkish winterish
Major Depression ; dysthymia=milder depression & lasts years
PTSD and OCD
Bipolard Disoder; depression to mania to depression (cycle)
92
The sympathetic is ____ while the parasympathetic is___.
flight; fight
arousing; calming
calming; arousing
fight; flight
93
Pancreas
brain; growth
neck; metabolism
stomach; fight/flight
stomach; glucose
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Fovea
central focal point in retina
concentrated near center; fine details and color
carries neural impulse from eye to brain
detect black, white, grey; twilight and peripheral vision
95
Learning is...
process of aquiring new info
being intelligent
potential to retain new information
organisism's decreasing response to stimulus with exposure
96
Brain is to central nervous system as the limbs are to ____nervous system.
Somatic
Peripheral
Parasympathtic
Autonomic
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serotonin
epileptic seizures
depression and autism
arousal and moods
arousal and memory
98
If you endured a stroke; causing paralysis in your right leg. What was damaged?
right motor cortex
right parietal lobe
left motor cortex
left parietal lobe
99
John B. Watson
Little Albert experiment
behaviorist
humanistic
bobo doll experiment
100
why is an operation definition necessary when researching?
provides more context and better examples
easier to translate for global studies
it is not necessary, just looks more "scientific"
Allows others to replicate
101
An example of extrinsic motivation is...
curiosity
feeling smart
praise
interesting content
102
the cerebral cortex is to processing information as the hypothalamus is to_____.
auditory
visual cortex
sensory input
maintenance; control pituatary
103
Kolhberg's Morality Development: Conventional
follow rules to avoid punishment
follow rules they agree with and go against rules when dont
follow rules because they know they exist and to keep order
104
Long sound waves=_____ and ______
high frequency
high pitch
low frequency
low pitch
105
A researcher observes a class playing with toys to compare gender typing. What kind of study?
Case Study
Longitudinal
Cross-Sectional
Naturalistic Observation
106
Pituitary
neck; metabolism
stomach; glucose
brain; growth
stomach; fight/flight
107
which ABILITY is a good predictor of good grades, adjustment and social success?
extrinsic motivation
self-control
insight
self-esteem
108
You can't recall your new cell # and you keep writing down your old #.
Retrograde Amnesia
Anterograde Amnesia
Proactive Interference
Retroactive Interference
109
3 receptors; red, green, blue; when stimulated in blend = other colors
young-helmholts theory
opponent-process theory
110
Atkinson-Shiffrin Model: three stages
Repressed Memory
Sensory memory
Short Term Memory
Long term Memory
111
Pitch Volley Principle
links pitch with where the cochlea is stimulated
Neural cells alternate firing
rate of neural impulses matches pitch
112
parietal and frontal are which functions, respectfully?
sensory complex; speaking
speaking; sensory complex
visual cortex; auditory cortex
auditory cortex; visual cortex
113
Operant Conditioning
impulses drive our responses
behaviors are strengthened by rewards
behaviors are diminished by consequences
based on biological dispositions
114
Noah Chomsky is to _____ as Benjamin Lee Whorf is to______.
linguistic determinsim; biological dispositions
Mental set; heuristics
biological dispositions ;linguistic determinism
heuristics; mental set
115
Eat a starburst without smelling = lemon flavor; release nose and smell =correctly guess orange
Anosmia
Sensory Interaction
Perceptual Set
Embodied Cognition
116
Which is a fixed ratio?
while pressing a button, you receive food every 5 times
winning the lottery after one try but never play again
while gambling, you win after 1, then 2, then 6 tries
every five days you receive new clothes
117
TRUE OR FALSE
: Vygotsky's Theory: cognitive process is a social process built with interaction
FALSE
TRUE
118
ACH
alzheimers, muscle spasms
memory
muscle contraction
pleasure
119
Optic Nerve
central focal point in retina
concentrated near center; fine details and color
carries neural impulse from eye to brain
detect black, white, grey; twilight and peripheral vision
120
Thyroid
neck; metabolism
stomach; glucose
stomach; fight/flight
brain; growth
121
What part of your brain continues developing until you are around 25?
Frontal Lobes
Parietal Lobe
Motor Cortex
Hippocampus
122
TRUE OR FALSE: community psychology is interaction of people & their soc, eco, pol environment
TRUE
FALSE
123
Who coined the term "tabula rasa"?
Wilhelm Wundt
Rene Descartes
Ivan Pavlov
John Locke
124
Melatonin
memory
arousal
sleep
metabolism
125
Kolhberg's Morality Development: Pre-Conventional
follow rules because they know they exist and to keep order
follow rules they agree with and go against rules when dont
follow rules to avoid punishment
