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Tisoqu's AP PSYCH Review
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For Ms. Lin's AP PSYCH students to review old concepts from the Myer's psychology book
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What intelligence would Gardner say Picasso has?
Spatial
Interpersonal
Musical
Artistic
2
What is Anorexia?
A dinosaur disease
The excessive release of Insulin
Binge-eating followed by purging
Self-Starvation
3
Egocentrism is a characteristic of which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Sensorimotor
Formal Operational
4
Signal Detection Theory
The intensity at which we detect stimulus half the time
There is a single absolute threshold
How we detect faint stimulus amid nose
Not based on expectations and alertness
5
Sleep is an example of what biological rhythm?
Infradian
Ultradian
Circadian
Annual cycles
6
Which one of Freud’s psychosexual stages is about dormant sexual feelings?
Latency
Genital
Phallic
Anal
7
Bobby is 8 years old, but he has a mental age of 16. What is his IQ?
180
200
120
160
8
Children gain operation permanence after about ________.
13 years
2 months
9 months
1 year
9
Holiday lights blink on and off in quick succession, appears as if actually moving.
Beta Phenomenon
Phi Phenomenon
Vision Theory
Autokinetic Effect
10
“fake it ‘til you make it” is a solution to emotional distress by which cognitive theory?
James-Lange’s Peripheral Theory
Schachter Two-Factor Model
Richard Lazarus’s Cognitive Appraisal
11
When depolarization occurs in the axon, what ions are transported back out of the cell?
Sodium
Calcium
Magnesium
Potassium
12
Fred is drinking water. Bob drinks some when Fred is not looking. Fred's inability to notice is
Narcolepsy
Change blindness
Drive reduction theory
Cocktail party phenomenon
13
What’s the best research method to looking at someone’s traits?
Projective tests
Experimentation
Personality Inventories
Observation
14
Bob's teacher thinks that he didn’t do his hw because he’s a lazy person.What thinking is this?
Fundamental Attribution Error
Internal Attribution
Ultimate Attribution Error
Defensive Attribution
15
To predict how someone will do in their first year of college what type of test will be used?
Survey
Aptitude Test
Achievement test
IQ Test
16
School of psychology used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind?
Functionalism
Behaviorism
Structuralism
Empiricism
17
Which one of the following determines perceived loudness?
Amplitude
Frequency
Timbre
18
Which part of the brain transforms visual representations into an auditory code?
Wernicke's Area
Visual Cortex
Angular Gyrus
Broca's Area
19
According to Freud all the other defense mechanisms are underlied by which defense mechanism?
Reaction Formation
The id
Sublimation
Repression
20
Rosa Park refused to sit in the back of the bus is most likely because of
Conformity
A stereotype
Minority influence
Group polarization
21
Which technique is a humanistic therapist most likely to use on a patient?
REBT
Systematic desensitization
Unconditional positive regard
Free association
22
Which hormone when released in the stomach causes an increase in hunger?
Ghrelin
Insulin
Orexin
Glucose
23
The smallest unit of language with meaning is a ________.
Phoneme
Syllable
Morpheme
Syntax
24
If the lateral hypothalamus in a rat is removed what will happen to it?
It will lose lots of weight
It will die immediately
It will be unable to see
It will gain lots of weight
25
Sleep spindles are present in which stage of sleep?
REM sleep
2nd stage
1st stage
fMRI sleep
26
Which hormones are secreted by ovaries?
Estrogen
Androgens
Testosterone
27
Which psychologist disagrees with Freud’s thinking that women suffer from "penis envy"?
Mary Whiton Calkins
Karen Horney
Margaret Floy Washburn
Rosalie Rayner
28
Billy cried because he was hungry. What reason would Freud say to why Billy cried?
Superego
Ego
Drive Reduction
Id
29
Fred asked his parents for $20. Then he asked them for $100. What does this describe?
Face-in-the-door phenomenon
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Persuasion
Door-in-the-face technique
30
Which one of the big five factors is a trait where someone is organized and disciplined?
Agreeable
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism
Openness
31
On average it takes this long to go through the sleeping cycle
One night
35 minutes
6 hours
90 minutes
32
Adolescent mood swings are often misdiagnosed as
Bipolar disorder
Temper tantrums
ADHD
Depression
33
A proper aptitude test must be
Reliable, Standardized and Logical
Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Logical
Standardized, Reliable and Valid
Curved
34
Which one of these increase the action of a neurotransmitter?
Agonists
Antagonists
35
Which Freud's defense mechanism is about how someone may retreat to an infantile stage?
Rationalization
Reaction Formation
Regression
Displacement
36
What psychologist came up with 7 primary mental abilities?
Sternberg
Thurstone
Spearman
Gardner
37
A discriminative stimulus is _________.
A racist guy who happens to be named “Stimulus.”
The lady next door who you’re pretty sure is a KKK member.
An innate reinforcer which satisfies biological needs
A specific action which elicits the conditioned response
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Which technique is a behaviorist most likely to use to treat a phobia?
Interpretation
Aversive counterconditioning
Systematic Desensitization
Roger’s client-centered therapy
39
Which psychologist disagrees with Freud’s assumptions that women suffer penis envy?
Karen Horney
Margaret Floy Washburn
Mary Whiton Calkins
Rosalie Rayner
40
What emotional theory states we experience emotion and physiological arousal at the same time?
Facial-Feedback Hypothesis
James-Lange’s Peripheral Theory
Schachter Two-Factor Model
Cannon-Bard’s Central Theory
41
A person fainted in the middle of a street. People are most likely not going to care because of
Bystander effect
Don't feel guilty effect
Social Inhibition
Social Loafing
42
S's corp. callo. severed. Pic of cat is flashed in his right visual field and apple in his left
“I saw an apple.”
“I saw a cat.”
“I saw nothing.”
“I saw an apple with ears.”
43
Which system calms the body and conserves its energy?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Somatic Nervous System
Autonomic Nervous System
Sympathetic Nervous System
44
Rodger gives his daughter $20 every time she gets an A on a test. Form of operant conditioning
Positive Punishment
Spoiling his child
Electra complex
Positive Reinforcement
45
Which of the following is not an anxiety disorder?
Phobias
Bipolar Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
46
The following psychologist believes in a general intelligence
John Locke
Robert Sternberg
Charles Spearman
Louis Thurstone
47
Thinks he knows what he is saying but random words come out. Difficulty understanding language.
Neurogenesis
Wernicke’s Aphasia
Neural Plasticity
Broca’s Aphasia
48
The form of Operant Conditioning most resistant to extinction is
Variable-ratio
Dinosaurs
Fixed-interval reinforcement
Throwing these hands
49
This theory states that we hear different pitches at diff places along the basilar membrane.
Place Theory
Frequency Theory
50
Name of the philosopher who believed that knowledge was acquired through experience?
Socrates
Wundt
Plato
Aristotle
51
The hypothalamus secretes hormones responsible for the desire to ________?
Recall memories
Ride a hippopotamus
Fight or flight
Have sex, eat, run or fight and sleep
52
The incorporation of unknown things into already existing schema is _________.
Assimilation
Mixing
Cognitive dissonance
Accommodation
53
Binocular cue for perceiving depth is
Visual Cliff
Retinal Disparity
Relative height
Linear perspective
54
What type of test are the SATs and ACTs?
Achievement Test
Smarter balance test
Mastery Test
Standardized Test
55
Gary believed that he passed his math test because of fate.What perception does Gary have?
Negative attitude
Internal locus of control
Positive attitude
External locus of control
56
Which hormone is released by the adrenal gland?
Thyroxine
Melatonin
Glucagon
Cortisol
57
Kat got the same scores on the 2 SATS she took. What do her scores show?
Predictive validity
Reliability
Content validity
Intelligence
58
A ‘95% effective' condom appears more effective than one with ‘5% failure rate.'
Priming
Framing
Heuristic
Mental set
59
Sensory experiences without sensory stimulation are called
Habituation
Paranoid thoughts
Hallucinations
Delusions
60
Excessive release of this excitatory neurotransmitter causes excitotoxicity
Dopamine
GABA
Norepinephrine
Glutamate
61
Tells our brain the position of the head in space and about its movement. (sense of balance)
Somatic System
Vestibular System
Kinesthetic System
Psychophysics
62
Conductive hearing loss is a problem that happens in the
Middle Ear
Inner Ear
Outer Ear
63
Which of the following is
NOT
a positive symptom of Schizophrenia?
Inappropriate laughter
Delusions
Expressionless faces
Hallucinations
64
Joey smells a musty odor. After a while, he no longer notices it. What is this an example of?
Sensory Adaptation
Absolute Threshold
Weber’s Law
Difference Threshold
65
Sally tends to score more goals in soccer when people are watching. This exhibits
Social facilitation
Subordinate goals
Ingroup bias
Social loafing
66
Arthur has trouble falling and staying asleep. He most likely has
REM sleep behavior disorder
Narcolepsy
The Danielle "Catch me outside" Syndrome
Insomnia
67
Mary takes the same bus route everyday. One day she walks and has no trouble going to school
Observational Learning
Mental Imaging
Mental Imaging
Latent Learning
68
What is the best way to test whether intelligence is influenced by genetics?
Identical twins who live apart
Siblings who live apart
Friends who live together
Fraternal twins who live together
69
We believe there is a relationship between 2 things, though no relationship actually exists?
Partial Correlation
Illusory Correlation
Middle School Relationships
Zero Order Correlation
70
What’s the best research method to looking at psychodynamics of a person?
Personality Inventories
Projective tests
Observation
Experimentation
71
Red says that he is God and says he communicates with Jesus. What disorder does he suffer from?
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Post-Traumatic Disorder
Panic Disorder
Schizophrenia
72
To find the value of x in an equation Joey puts in values 1-100 one by one. This process is
Algorithms
Concept formation
Availability heuristic
Trial and error
73
The ability to perceive events or objects that are out of sight
Precognition
Telepathy
Clairvoyance
Psychokinesis
74
Neuroimaging technique picks up gamma rays from the sugar concentrated in active brain areas
Computed Tomography
Electroencephalogram
Positron Emission Tomography
Gamma Rays Imaging
75
Which type of neurons take information from the senses to the brain?
Efferent Neurons
Pyramidal Neurons
Afferent Neurons
Interneurons
76
form of selective attention when you fail to see visible objects when attention is elsewhere
Change blindness
Divided Attention
Cocktail Party effect
Inattentional blindness
77
According to the Yerkes-Dodson Law people operate best under what level of arousal?
Average
Moderate
Low
High
78
What is object permanence?
When an object is lost from sight it still exists
To hold an object for a sustained amount of time
The ability to curl an object’s hair
The ability to sustain one’s self
79
Which psychological disorder is the most universal?
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
Susto
Schizophrenia
80
Which ONE about heritability is wrong?
We can estimate heritability of trait using twin studies
variation among individuals that can be attributed to genes
Heritability tells us nothing about an individual
Personality 50% due to heredity and 50% due to environment
81
Ty love attention and knows he looks good,and it is overtaking his life. What disorder is this?
Full of himself personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
82
Older people tend to have more of which type of memory?
Long-term memory
Sensory memory
Crystallized memory
Recall memory
83
Perry has been really down and felt worthless lately. What disorder might he have?
Bipolar disorder
PTSD
ADHD
Major depressive disorder
84
Eddie stays away from his Aunt because she looks like a sasquatch and scares him. An example of
Avoidance learning
Escape learning
Common sense
Specific phobia
85
Which part of the hindbrain controls facial expressions?
Thalamus
Cerebellum
Medulla
Pons
86
John Watson believed that introspection was..
A valid method of research
Essential to studying behaviorism
Studying the human mind in use
Unscientific
87
Nate was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. What drug should a psychiatrist prescribe to him?
Xanax
Molly
Lithium
Zoloft
88
Paul wants to eat fries, but his friends want to eat pizza. Why would he most likely eat pizza?
Social Inhibition
Conformity
Groupthink
Obedience
89
Just like Carl Rogers, I believe that people choose to live more creative and meaningful lives.
Skinner
Maslow
Wertheimer
Washburn
90
Calling your boyfriend/girlfriend by your ex boyfriend/girlfriend’s name is an example of?
Anterograde Amnesia
Retroactive Interference
Being a jerk
Proactive Interference
91
Which part of the forebrain receives sensory signals coming up the spinal cord?
Thalamus
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Hypothalamus
92
Which of the following is
NOT
true about depression?
Most people with depression need professional help.
Women are about twice as vulnerable to depression than men.
Depression is affecting more people in newer generations.
Depression is widespread
93
In a positively skewed distribution, which one of these do not increase like the others?
Median
Standard Deviation
Mean
Mode
94
Who is the best AP Psychology teacher?
Ms. Lin
Mr. Rosales
Mr. Ishibashi
Ms. Hong
95
Which one is not true of the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan?
Shows brain structure
More detailed than the MRI
Sophisticated Xray
Uses X-ray cameras to get 3D picture
96
__are thin, unmyelinated neurons carry messages about long lasting aches and burning sensations
A-delta nerve fibers
C- fibers
B- fibers
97
Which gland helps regulate level of calcium in blood?
Thyroid
Parathyroids
Pancreas
Pituitary
98
A rare sleep disorder
Narcolepsy
Being too lit
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Schizophrenia
99
Psychologically what is the best parenting style from Diana Baumrind’s research?
Secure attachment
Authoritarian
Permissive
Authoritative
100
Which is the last stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages?
Formal operational
Genital
Phalic
Latency
101
Solomon is interested in thinking processes; He is a _____ psychologist.
Learning
Cognitive
Personality
Behavioral
102
Ted has a huge a fear of snakes. Which school of therapy would most likely treat Ted’s fear?
Behavioral therapy
Cognitive therapy
Talk to me therapy
Humanistic therapy
