AP Psychology First Semester Final Review

Ethical principles developed by the APA help ensure humans in psychological research

Evolutionary psychologists would say humans desire social interaction,affiliation,etc. due to

In adult humans which of the following is true of REM sleep?

Damage to which brain part would cause a coma that someone would be unlikely to wake from?

According to Wilhelm Wundt, the focus of scientific psychology should be the study of

In memory experiments on free recall, the recency effect refers specifically to

Freudian constructs which is believed to protect from anxiety by making memories inaccessible

Immediately after firing, a neuron in incapable of responding to stimulation, this is the

Gestalt principle where an individual's tendency to perceive an incomplete figure as whole

Which of the following is generally associated with the use of hallucinogens?

In classical conditioning, stimulus generalization occurs when an organism responds

Which of the following is an example of discrimination learning?

If experimenting on the effects of hunger on aggression, aggression would be the

Which of the following most accurately describes the role of the hypothalamus in hunger?

People who have difficulty remembering recently learned material because of similar information

A polygraph machine does not detect lies, it responds to changes in

A tumor that destroys the ventromedial hypothalamus is likely to produce which of the following

Which of the following best describes the placebo effect?

The feeling that you know someone's name, but cannot quite recall it is an example of

What hormone seems to be most closely associated with aggressive behavior?

Cognitive psychologists are most likely to study

Which of the following increases the chance that you will remember a phone number quickly

Which of the following is true about the blind spot in the eye?

The pitch of sound is analogous to which of the following features of light?

If someone uses a paperclip to gain access to a locked house their problem solving avoids using

What is a median?

Learning that is not demonstrated at the time it occurs is called

A particular group of brain cells seems to provide basis for observational learning, they are

According to social learning theory, aggression is the result of the following?

Which of the following correctly lists Maslow's hierarchy of needs from bottom to top?

Information is relayed to the spinal cord or the brain by

In right handed people which of the following abilities is predominantly a right brain function

Pam works hard in school because her parents give her money for A's, this is an example of

Caffeine and nicotine are in the same class as which of the following drugs?

If an individual has lost the ability to feel pain in the left arm, there is most likely damage

Which of the following would most likely result from an injury to the medulla?

The depletion of which of the following neurotransmitters is most closely linked to Alzheimer's

According to psychoanalytic theory-Tom's constant shoplifting suggests he has an underdeveloped

The function of dendrites is to

A person with damage to the Broca's area would most likely demonstrate the following symptoms?

Money most often modifies people's behavior because it is a powerful

Standard deviation is a measure of how much

Which of the following explains pitch perception?

Which of the following is an explanation of why travelers suffer from jet lag?

A person displays a new behavior after watching someone else perform it is

Of the following, which is essential for operant conditioning to occur?

Receptors for olfaction are located

Behavioral psychologists are most likely to study which of the following

B.F. Skinner's claim that environment determines an individual's behavior was criticized for

Which behavior shows how introspection was practiced by early structuralists