Per 6 AP Psych Exam Review

which of the following statistics provides most information about how spread out a data set is

Which one of the following is an example of Charles Spearman's general intelligence?

Intelligence researchers like Gardner and Sternberg argue that schools focus too much on

Waiting for an important email

An owl hunting for mice in a forest

After a natural disaster Faye says, "Serves them right for not having better warning systems."

learned helplessness is most likely to be directly related to

An example of explicit memory is...

Trying to complete a telephone call when the line is busy

What percent of people score between 70 and 130 on the WISC (M: 100, SD:15)

the limbic system plays an important role in

According to Kohlberg, in order to reason at the postconventional level, people must

The fact that our ears are located on opposite sides of our head best helps us with

An EEG of Cyrus after he has been asleep for about an hour would show primarily

Stanford-Binet intelligence scale measures

What is an example of belief perseverance?

In Kohlberg's Preconventional Stage of Moral Development, what guides our behavior

Slot machines are based on this schedule

Which best summarizes the results of Tolman's latent learning experiment

When running for class president, Edy puts pictures of herself everywhere. Why might this help

Which of the following models of personality is the least deterministic

What number will tell Matt whether his research is statistically significant

Delusions and hallucinations are most characteristic of

Which theory would assert that a key motivation for people is spreading their genetic material

Best example of Sternberg's practical intelligence...

which disorder would respond best to cognitive behavioral therapy

Waiting for clothes to come out of washing machine that takes 32 minutes

Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve shows that forgetting occurs most often

What area of psychology focuses on subjective well-being, optimism, self-esteem, and happiness

patients who are described as "split brain" have had what structure removed

Bandura's Bobo doll experiment evidenced the importance of __________ in social learning

10 YO Genna underwent a right hemispherectomy. What action best shows her neuroplasticity

Selling cookies door to door

Harlow's rhesus monkey experiment illustrated

When Susie went to prom with Dan, Max channeled his feelings of frustration into artwork

if the College Board left out questions about neuroscience on the AP exam, the test would lack

Ani believes she is capable of succeeding in nursing school. Her mindset is associated with

which structure is part of the inner ear

A rat is rewarded for the first correct response after every 30 seconds

4YO Kate sits right in front of all the other kids to watch a magician. According to Piaget,

_ A fisherman turning over rocks looking for worms

A musician who signs a recording contract stops playing for fun. This is best explained by

example of retroactive interference

Reading a job description written with masculine pronouns, people think of the employee as male

What theory of emotion are cognitive psychologists likely to support

People who are easily hypnotizable are likely to score highly on which Big 5 trait

When Jake is late to basketball practice his coach makes him run laps. Jake is not late again

A writer is paid for every article completed

What is an example of why it is important to have predictive validity/ criterion validity?

Which of the following has been linked to a deficit of dopamine

Priming (example)

Dan is a toddler who avoids eye contact and resists to changes to routine. He shows symptoms of

Representative Heuristics has been linked to

Kohlberg’s theory of moral development was criticized by Gilligan as being

One group receives an ad for 99% fat free milk; the other for 1% fat milk. What being tested

A librarian gives a prize for every five books students read. Her schedule of reinforcement is

Elizabeth Loftus' research on wording and misinformation effects on memory best demonstrate

Erikson's initiative vs. guilt stage is most closely related to Freud's

A sales clerk at a bakery waiting for the next customer to arrive

Lana learns how to be goalie as her coach gradually rolls the ball faster at parts the goal

An example of functional fixedness is what?

Which statement best represents the relationship between performance and arousal

Which of the following is found in Jung's model of the collective unconscious

Frequent flyer program in which one gets a free flight after a specific number of miles are flown

A dolphin is given a fish after it jumps through a hoop six times

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences include Bodily-kinesthetic intelligences. Examples of this behavior would include:

An example of an illusory correlation

Lewis Terman equated giftedness with __________?

Restarting your printer over and over but failing to notice it is out of paper demonstrates

In a class of 25 students, all but 2 score between 82 and 94. The 2 scores of 47 and 55 are 

For every ten words spelled correctly a child gets a star by their name on a bulletin board

en route to the visual cortex, information from the eyes' retinas crosses at the

A child is rewarded if they are sitting correctly after every two minutes goes by

Vance's psychiatrist diagnoses him with bipolar disorder. Which medication would he prescribe

After studying for weeks and taking an AP exam, Conrad gets the flu. What theory explains this

Runners in a park increase their speed when another runner comes into view. This illustrates

Pat is laughing because she just won the lottery. Sal thinks she is a fun person. Sal's opinion

An example of Face Validity is

in the nature vs. nurture debate, nature is most closely associated with

An American's prototype of a chair is most likely to include

Waiting for an elevator to arrive

Which part of the brain is "newest" in an evolutionary sense

Checking your mailbox for mail which comes daily at 3 PM

At what age is the onset of schizophrenia most typical

Lara is attracted to Craig but can't stand his friends and family. Her conflict is classified

What kind of personality theorist would be most interested in the results of the MMPI