AP Psychology Final Quiz

When you respond to similar stimuli, it is called what?

Which of the following P-Values would show a strong statistical significance? (1)

The brain lobe that is responsible for receiving sensory input for touch and body position. (2)

The ill-fated idea that bumps on our skull could reveal mental abilities and traits? (2)

This type of defense mechanism is where the person would call their mom crying

underestimate situation, over estimate personality

What is psychotherapy used for mostly?

The idea that genes and hereditary factors influence who we are. (3)

physiological response to emotion-arousing stimuli

Permanent change in an original behavior

Blocking from conscious (methods)

The relatively slow brain waves. When a person is relaxed but awake. (7)

exposure therapy

The gland controlled by the hypothalamus and regulates growth and other endocrine glands. (2)

What is a heuristic?

What is psycho physiological illness

In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field (6)

Stereotype and discrimination are the same thing

Interpreting one's new experiences in terms of one's existing schemas. (4)

Which of the following is NOT one of the 5 psychological research methods? (1)

Which approach to psychology studies how society and cultures effect our behavior and thinking?

Type of intelligence when one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills increase with age (4)

Lymphocytes are...

The remembered story line of a dream. (7)

chameleon effect

Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes (5)

if the test has consistent results, it is...

Most "useful" type of encoding

The_______sends the messages from a neuron and the ______is what receives the messages. (2)

Which is an example of female secondary sex characteristics? (4)

Who was known for Psychoanalytic Perspective?

What are the 2 types of love?

the id is also compared to...

Type of learning where behavior can depend on if its followed by punishment or reinforcement

Which branch studies the roots of behavior and mental process through natural selection?

In the preoperational stage, a child's difficulty taking another's point of view. (4)

What is self actualization?

Which approach to psychology studies thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?

What increases hunger?

How many people are observed in a case study? (1)

What is sensory memory?

Memories that leave imprints on your brain

Which of the following is a chemical sense? (5)

The rules for putting words in a sentence

A diminished response is also called...

What is the third of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development? (4)

What 3 factors are apart of the Triarchic theory?

The illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off quickly. (6)

Brain scan that uses glucose to show visual images of brain activity performing a task (2)

General Adaption Syndrome

Which is NOT one of the five stages of grief? (4)

What is the mode of the following set of numbers? (1) 5 2 6 5 3 2 5

Failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere. (6)

What is a prototype?

1 emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological response and emtion

TAT tests are a type of this approach

Sleep order with uncontrollable sleep attacks, they may lapse directly into REM sleep. (7)

Known as "morphine within", it is the natural opiate like hormone linked to pain control (2)

What is the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups? (6)

The book that has categories of each disorder

Statistical procedure that identifies clusters

Which of the following is NOT a nurture influence? (3)

If you got a reward when you finished 5 questions every time, what type of schedule is it?

trouble sleeping

There is a real relationship between correlation and causation? (1)

Hyper activity

What is the unlearned, natural occurring response to the UCS

The concept that we perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather than discontinuous ones (6)

The type of psychoactive drug that excites neural activity and speeds up body functions. (7)

"3 D's"

What is the sense of body movement and position (Including balance)? (5)

Which of the following is a binocular cue? (Hint: There is more than one right answer) (6)

What is convergent thinking?

If you are motivated to do something because you want to, what is that known as?

What is the theory that the spinal chord can block pain signals or allow them to the brain? (5)

If someone were to use the scapegoat theory, what would they do?

Which of the following is NOT one of the bones in the middle ear? (Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup) (5)

What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye cones cluster? (5)

You are unable to see a problem from a new perspective. What is this called?

Increasing behavior by presenting positive stimuli is also called what?

Irrational fear

Which is an example of hindsight bias? (1)

The placebo effect gives positive results. (1)

Catharsis is...

Which of the following is NOT a sleep theory? (7)

Monocular cue when parallel lines appear to converge with distance. (6)

When a person seeks evidence that will only support their own belief and not their dispute. (1)

Who created the Hierarchy of Needs?

Newborn reflex when the sole of a babies foot is stroked and the babies toes fan out. (4)

If a person weighs very little and does not eat, what disorder do they most likely have?

The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through second month (4)

The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time (5)

Doing academic research as a defense mechanism

A nervous system that calms the body, conserving energy. (2)

Which research method is the only one to show cause and effect? (1)

Known as the "little brain" it processes sensory input and coordinates movement and balance (2)

The sound unit of words

An excess of this neurotransmitter can cause schizophrenia. (2)

The ego is the mediator

What experiment studied obedience