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AP Psychology Review #3
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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 tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?
Achievement Test
Standardized Test
Aptitude Test
None of the Above
2
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...
Set Point
Basal Metabolic Rate
Psychology of Hunger
Basal Heart Rate
3
Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?
Myelin Sheath
Cell Body
Dendrite
Axon
4
What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?
Basic Definition
Operational Defintion
Hypothesis
Classical Definition
5
Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?
Digestion Inhibits
Heart Accelerates
Salivation Decreases
Pupils Contract
6
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is known as...
Self-Esteem
Intelligence
Personality
Character
7
The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Workforce Psychology
Flow
Real-Life Psychology
8
Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...
Conformity
Normative Social Influence
All of the Above
Obedience
9
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes are classified as...
Major Personality Disorders
Mood Disorders
Bipolar Disorders
Mania Disorders
10
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is known as...
psychotherapy
transference
repression
resistance
11
The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?
Relative Size
convergence
Interposition
Texture Gradient
12
Systematic desensitization is what kind of therapy?
Cognitive
Exposure
Active Listening
Counterconditioning
13
What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?
Distance
Speed
Texture Gradience
Movement
14
What is a desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people, or ideas?
Incentive
Extrinsic Motivation
Satisfaction Motivation
Achievement Motivation
15
Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?
Cause and Effect
Pattern Seeking
Illusory Correlation
Overconfidence
16
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?
Acquisition
Generalization
Spontaneous Recovery
Extinction
17
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...
None of the Above
Phobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
PTSD
18
Which method of coping attempts to alleviate stress directly?
Problem-Focused Coping
None of the Above
Coping
Emotiong-Focused Coping
19
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...
Explicit Memory
Non-Declarative Memory
Implicit Memory
Procedural
20
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as...
Perception of Language`
Hindsight Bias
Linguistic Determinism
Language Construction
21
The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...
Learned Hopefulness
Personal Control
External Locus of Control
Internal Locus of Control
22
What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: 'Who am I?'
Role
Egocentrism
Identity
Self-Concept
23
What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?
Social Clock
Circadian Rhythm
REM Sleep
Biological Rhythms
24
Who famously argued that the mind at birth is a blank slate- a "white paper?"
John Locke
Wilhelm Wundt
Socrates
Plato
25
What is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behavior?
Hindsight Bias
Illusory Correlation
False Consensus Effect
Overconfidence
26
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...
Processing
Chunking
Encoding
Spacing
27
Which study compares people of different ages?
Experiment
Case Study
Cross-Sectional Study
Longitudinal Study
28
Getting a hug (after a response) is an example of what?
Positive Reinforcement
Conditioning
Negative Reinforcement
Shaping
29
A revoked driver's license is an example of what?
Positive Punishment
Negative Punishment
Negative Reinforcement
Operant Conditioning
30
A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...
Specific Intelligence
Savant Syndrome
None of the Above
General Intelligence
31
A robin is a ______ of bird.
Prototype
Algorithm
Heuristic
categorization
32
Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose?
MRI
EEG
PET
fMRI
33
What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?
Optic Nerve
Ganglion Cell
Fovea
Pupil
34
A correlation coefficient of +.95 signifies...
A weak, positive correlation
No Correlation
No Relationship
A strong, positive correlation
35
Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?
Bottom-up processing
Top-down processing
Perception
Critical Thinking
36
What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?
Misinformation Effect
Memory Construction
Imagination
Amnesia
37
Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?
Cannon-Bard
Schachter-Singer
James-Lange
Two-Factor
38
What are the threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes?
Genomes
Chromosomes
DNA
Genes
39
What is known as the "Aha!" moment?
Divergent Thinking
Heuristics
Insight
Confirmation Bias
40
Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Middle Ear
Outer Ear
Cochlea
Inner Ear
41
According to Piaget, during what stage does one develop object permanence?
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational
Preoperational
Sensorimotor
42
Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?
Psychoanalytic
Cognitive
Behavioral
Humanistic
43
Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?
eclectic
transference
interpretation
functionalism
44
What is the fertilized egg that enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division?
Embryo
Uterus
Fetus
Zygote
45
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...
Behavior and Mental Processes
The Human Mind
Emotions
Observable Behavior
46
What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?
Gender Role
Gender-Typing
Gender Identity
Gender Schema Theory
47
Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
Dopamine
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Serotonin
Norepinephrine
48
According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?
Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)
Infancy (to 1 year)
Middle Adulthood ( 40s-60s)
Toddlerhood (1-2 years)
