AP Psych Final Review 2025

If you stare at a red spot for 1 minute & then look at white paper, you are likely to experience an afterimage that is:

Which of the following best characterizes individuals diagnosed as having personality disorders?

Which of the following types of test is designed to measure an individual's knowledge of a subject?

A person with sight in only one eye lacks which of the following visual cues for seeing in depth?

Which schedule of reinforcement produces behavior that is extinguished with the fewest trials?

Which is as a characteristic of autistic children?

Which of the following is most likely to occur in the third stage of the general adaptation syndrome?

The goal of rational-emotive therapy is to help clients

Which of the following statements is true of behaviorism?

Grass seen through sunglasses appears equally as green as it does without glasses. This best illustrates

Which of the following memory systems would be most affected by damage to the cerebellum?

Which of the following concepts is depicted in the graph?

This psychologist mainly studied latent learning and cognitive maps:

Which psychologist is associated with the concept of a collective unconscious (ancestral memories common to all people)?

Persistent repetitive thoughts that cannot be controlled are known as

Which of the following is true of the reticular activating system?

Which of the following demonstrates semantic memory?

The defense mechanism of reaction formation is best exemplified in which of the following situations?

The change in the curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances is called

Which of the following describes a perception process that the Gestalt psychologists would have been interested in?

Which psychologist conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment and had to call off the study in only six days?

For most people, which of the following is an activity based in the right hemisphere of the brain?

According to evolutionary psychologists, what drives our need for social interaction?

You are more likely to remember happy memories when you are presently happy than when you are sad due to 

What is meant by the term 'reliability' for a test?

Which of the following statements is best supported by research on human intelligence?

Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome is mainly concerned with:

Which is not true about the blind spot?

Which of the following is a characteristic common to all individuals with a narcissistic personality disorder?

Which is not an example of crystallized intelligence?

Which of the following phrases accurately describes top-down processing? 

Bipolar disorders are most effectively treated with a combination of tricyclic antidepressants and

Which psychologist would attribute a child's prejudicial attitudes to the attitudes demonstrated by the child's parent?

Mr. Turner gives you an exam. If the exam scores were normally distributed what % would fall at or below the mean score?

Which of the following is an example of metacognition?

A student records the height of all their classmates and calculates standard deviation. What would cause SD to go up?

What does evolutionary psychology suggest is a main factor in men being sexually attracted to a potential mate?

Which strategy maximizes your chances of successfully retrieving the information he will need for an exam? 

What is meant by the term 'validity' for a test?

The intelligence quotient (IQ) has traditionally been based on the relationship between an individual's mental age and:

Which of the following is a researcher most likely to do in determining the reliability of an intelligence test?

Which of the following best describes results from experiments on conformity?

A word/ part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that can't be broken into smaller meaningful units is called a

Which of the following circumstances would most likely lead to a person experiencing an increased feeling of love?

The graph depicts which of the following phenomena?

Sigmund Freud's primary contribution to psychology is

A couple w/ 4 daughters believe they are more likely to have a son than a daughter when they have another child. This is

Which theory of color vision helps explain seeing a negative afterimage?

Someone who is able to remember their past but cannot form new semantic memories most likely has: