ap psych final exam (first semester) pt 2

Which of the following statements in correct regarding why eyewitness testimony is not always accurate?

Recognition is to recall as:

If a researcher is trying to establish a causal relationship between eating breakfast and work performance, should use:

The idea that dreams represent wish fulfillment comes from which theory of dream interpretation?

Which of the following brain structures plays an important role in memory storage, from STM to LTM?

Dream theory that suggests our dreams reflect the same thoughts, fears, & concerns present when we are awake is called:

Approximately how long is each cycle of sleep during a full night's slecp?

The adaptive sleep theory suggests:

Hallucinogens are best defined as:

A person experiences blind panic, screaming, and thrashing around while sleeping. This episode is called:

Which of the following exemplifies retrograde interference?

The hormone most closely related to one's sleep patterns is:

Jordan tests effects of sugar consumption 4 aggression levels in children. Hypothesis: sugar levels do play a role. use:

Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?

Based on Herman Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve research using nonsense syllables, unfamiliar information is:

Cold sweats, vomiting, convulsions, and hallucinations are all symptoms of what drug?

Clients who work with their therapists to explore past to discover source of illness is what therapy?

ability to transfer information abt words, facts, and events from STM to LTM depends on activity in what brain part?

Taking a math placement exam, Spencer got stuck on a problem. With 5 min left, suddenly arrived at the answer. ex of:

Retrograde amnesia can best be defined as:

Experimenters showed that a person deprived of the __ stage of sleep will become anxious, hungry, and cant concentrate.

__ psychoactive drugs that depress central stimulate central nervous nervous system, __ stimulate central nervous system

Jack realized he remembered exactly where piece of information appeared on a page in txtbk eventho didnt try to remember

In using hypnosis for pain reduction, patients highly susceptible to hypnosis were:

Which of the following is not a practical application of hypnosis?

Which age group of people is most susceptible to hypnosis?

In order for a person to be hypnotized, the hypnotist must do which of the following?

Approximately how many cycles of sleep does an adult enter' during a full night's sleep?

Mental state that encompasses the thoughts, feelings, & perceptions that occur when we are reasonably alert is called:

Which of the following psychologists wrote The Principles of Prychology?

What are the four major areas of impact of psychoactive drugs?

Which of the following drugs are physically addictive?

Recognition involves which of the following?

An infant sleeps approximately 17 hours a day. Of those hours, how many are spent in REM?

Maya currently enrolled in Italian class at her local college. Went to Italy on break. Speaks Spanish instead of Italian

Corey sits at his kitchen table to think about what he needs to buy at the grocery store. He is using his ability to:

Drug induces # of physiological/psychological effects: dry mouth, time distortion, euphoric feelings, sense of relaxatin

Before entering sleep, you briefly pass through a relaxed and drowsy state. This is marked by which characteristic?

Which of the following psychologists believed that intelligence was a collection of mental abilities?

After his car accident, Paul cannot make any new memories. Mus write everything down to remember. Known as:

Which of the following is not considered to be an altered state of consciousness?

relatively rare condition involving irresistible attacks of sleepiness, brief periods of REM, & muscle paralysis called:

Which statement best defines dependency?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of REM sleep?

Which of the following statements best describes opiates?

A random sample can best be defined as:

Teenage boy once described using this drug as "life without anxiety, it makes you feel good," but found dark side of it

absorbed in reading a novel and a friend asks you a ?. ask what they said but know what they said. why can u remember?

Repeated periods during sleep when a person stops breathing for 10 seconds or longer is known as:

Sydney is going to investigate how alcohol affects aggression. The number of alcoholic drinks the subject has is called:

A developmental psychologist focuses mainly on:

Alteration in consciousness that occurs seemingly without effort, typically when we want to momentarily escape reality:

The sleep stage that is a transition from wakefulness to sleep and lasting 1-7 minutes is:

What is the correct name of the memory files that contain related information about a specific topic or category?

Ernest Hilgard's hidden observer theory, abt if hypnotized & told to get in cold water, will respond to “do u feel pain”

In the 1700s a force called "animal magnetism," later known as hypnosis, was introduced by:

brain waves have a fast frequency and low amplitude and look very similar to beta waves. state of sleep:

Which part of the brain is important in keeping the forebrain alert and producing a state of wakefulness?

The majority of our dreams occur in which stage of sleep?

Talking to yourself over and over again, repeating information silently or out loud, is called:

1 of earliest psychologists 2 study memory & forgetting: Herman Ebbinghaus.used himself 2 test syllables. forgetingcurve

The reduction in the body's response to a drug, which may accompany continual drug use, is called:

Subjects in experiment learned sequence of letters (PSQ). then #s. then asked to recall letters. couldn’t remember. =:

Psychodynamic psychology focuses mainly on which of the following?

When an intelligence test measures what it is supposed to, the test is considered to be:

Which stage of sleep is characterized by delta waves (very high amplitude and very low frequency)?

Which of the following drugs does not fall under the category of a stimulant?

w several attempts at escape w/o success, electrically shocked dogs gives up. When gate opens dog doesnt leave: concept:

Kimberly knows she did something embarrassing at her friend's bday yrs before but can’t remember. ex of:

which research methods does not permit researchers to draw conclusions regarding cause-and-effect relationships?

Eighty percent of our sleep takes place in which cycle of sleep?

Phenomenology is best defined as:

Observation in a classroom that the higher the room temperature, the lower student performance would be an example of:

The center of the activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming is based on the belief that:

Driving a car along a familiar route while listening to the radio or thinking of something else is an example of:

idea that psychology isnt based on scientific fact/human shortcomings but focus on human experience. bias of:

Jayden consciously pushes due date for term project out of mind. On day it is due, takes an incomplete. Ex of:

Marc got survey data abt #hrs college student studies 4 finals+grade. data shows those who study more do better meaning:

All of the following are terms related to hypnosis except.

Mental age can best be defined as:

According to the information-processing model, which is the correct order of inputting information?

A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in falling asleep or remaining asleep is called:

Jill wants to study the process of thinking. Which field of psychology should she choose?

Beta waves are characteristic of a person who is:

Which of the following coefficients of a correlation indicate the weakest relationship between two variables?

Which of the following drugs block reuptake, leading to increased neural stimulation?

Sleepwalking and sleep talking are characteristics of which stage of sleep?

A case study is:

REM sleep is also known as paradoxical sleep because:

The forgetting curve measures which of the following?

Which of the following psychoactive drugs is not a depressant?

___ refers to an increased percentage of time spent in REM sleep when deprived from REM sleep on the previous night.

The Hawthorne effect is best defined as:

After making a mess of the playroom, Mason visualizes where each toy should be placed in the room. He is using:

Bisell: experiment 2 see if hunger = faster mice thru maze. 25 mice for control/experiment grp. NOT confounding variabl?

Which of the following statements is not true?

Believe people choose 2 live meaningful lives. Share similar beliefs as Carl Rogers. believe in self actualization. im..

The term biological psychology is concerned with:

When researchers removed all time cues, such as light, length of the day expanded from 24 to abt 25 hours. phenomenon:

The method of loci includes which of the following three steps?