stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
AP Psych Review Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
AP Psych Review
AP Psych Review
90 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
27 plays
A quiz to review for the AP Psych exam
Flashcards
90 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
90
Answers
1
What is the absolute threshold?
Someone's ability to sense muscle movement and posture
Just noticeable difference
Minimal amount of energy required to produce any sensation
What you walk over to enter a door
2
Which gland is in the endocrine system?
Adrenal
Both
Pituitary
Neither
3
Which experimental factor is manipulated?
Independent variable
Dependent variable
Brenda
Confounding variable
4
The study of the methods and techniques used to gain psychological knowledge is called
This study has no formal name
Psychological studies
AP Pyschology
Psychometrics
5
A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance is...
The mean
A bit rude
Statistical significance
Debriefing
6
What is positive punishment?
When you're immediately rewarded for a behavior
Positively reinforcing close behaviors to a desired behavior
Adding something decreasing likelihood of behavior occurring
Removing something so behavior won't reoccur
7
What is a control group?
The people in charge of an experiment
The group that does not receive the IV
The group that receives the DV
A committee that designs experiments
8
Which phenomenon is involved with perceiving objects as constant shapes, size, and lightness?
Perceptual consistancy
Color constancy
Perceptual adaptation
Phi phenomenon
9
A testable prediction
Independent variable
Replication
Hypothesis
Theory
10
Priming is an example of...
An Edward Hering color vision theory
Subliminal perception
Transduction
Sensory adaptation
11
Scatterplots are for...
Showing dependent variables on their own
Showing dots that represent the values of 2 variables
Scattering seeds in plots of land
Scattering evidence to make a data scavenger hunt
12
The correlation coefficient...
Has nothing to do with correlation
Is an index of two things' relationship (-1 to +1)
Is a government conspiracy
Always goes before a or d in the correlation equation
13
The placebo effect...
We don't talk about the placebo effect.
Is when one takes sugar pills to increase energy levels
Takes place in Bo
Is when experimental results are caused by expectations
14
An explanation using an integrated set of principles
Operational definition
Hypothesis
Correlation
Theory
15
What is sleep apnea?
A type of night terror
When people are susceptible to posthypnotic suggestions
A depressant that inhibits neural arousal centers
When a person repeatedly stops breathing while sleeping
16
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes is...
Behavioral psychology
Psycho-socialism
Psychology
The cognitive-behavioral perspective
17
Which of the following is the level of stimulation needed to trigger a neural impulse?
Action potential
Neurotransmitters
Threshold
Neuron
18
Freud was most involved in...
Psychometrics
Structuralism
Psychodynamic psychology
Social structure in ant colonies
19
What do surveys ascertain?
Scientific facts determined in a lab experiment
Surgical procedures
Service information
Self-reported attitudes or behaviors
20
This approach involved careful observations and scientifically based research
Purely scientific discovery
Introspection
Functionalism
Empirical approach
21
A double-blind procedure...
Is inclusive to those with disabilities
Doesn't let participants or researchers know who has the IV
Features excessively covered windows
Includes a placebo
22
A standard deviation is...
Mean
Nerd stuff
Wrong because deviation from the norm is bad
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean
23
Clinical psychology emphasizes...
Mental health and mental illness
Behavior in doctors' offices
Mental health and classical conditioning
Latent dream content
24
What are delta waves?
Waves that keep you awake during narcolepsy
Waves that cause REM Rebound
Deep sleep waves in stages 3 and 4
Waves that keep you awake during insomnia
25
What is size constancy?
Perception of an object as same size regardless of distance
A vision problem caused by sensorineural hearing loss
It's explained by the Young-Helmholtz theory
The number of complete wavelengths in a given time
26
What is the range? (choose the best possible answer)
The difference between the highest and lowest values
A line of mountains
Not this one
Where a cowboy lives
27
Seeking the causes of behavior in genes, the brain, and the nervous and endocrine systems is...
Biomedical sociology
The hormonal approach
Clinical psychology
Biological psychology
28
Which of these psychologists has to do with naturalistic observation?
Jane Goodall
Maybe the naturalistic observation was inside you all along
Naturalistic observation doesn't actually exist
Albert Bandura
29
Correlation...
Is a Greek vegetarian dish made from small pebbles and moss
Has 3 R's in it
Definitely equals causation
Is a measure of the extent to which 2 factors vary together
30
What is humanism?
A viewpoint emphasizing human potential and free will
The belief that humans do not exist
A viewpoint emphasizing lack of free will
The belief that humans exist
31
Natural selection is a part of...
Humanistic psychology
The Purge
Evolutionary psychology
Behavioral psychology
32
Psychologists who apply knowledge from experiments to practical problems
Problem-application psychologists
Experimental psychologists
Sigmund Freud
Applied research psychologists
33
What is a perceptual set?
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing, not another
Accomodation
Extrasensory perception
A set of things to perceive
34
When do alpha waves occur?
Stage 2
Stage 1
Stage 3
While awake and relaxed
35
Experimental psychologists regularly...
Use experimental knowledge to solve practical problems
Participate in science fairs
Apply experimental methods to the study of behavior
Take part in wiccan rituals
36
Plasticity is...
Only applicable to the corpus callosum
The growth of the Broca's or Wernicke's areas
The brain's ability to change by reorganizing after damage
A form of aphasia
37
Is it ethical to not debrief someone?
Debriefing is rude and can be hurtful and humiliating
No, you must always debrief every person
Yeah, if they weren't in the experiment
Yes, debriefing is actually illegal in most countries
38
What are endorphins?
Peripheral nervous system
Central nervous system
Neurotransmitters that control pain and pleasure
Sensory/afferent neurons
39
The mean is...
The average
A bully
Not the answer
A supervillain
40
The perception of a relationship where none exists is...
Correlation
Embarrassing, I thought you wanted to be more than friends
Illusory correlation
Hindsight bias
41
Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance is...
Irresponsible
A double-blind procedure
Random assignment
A random sample
42
What is spontaneous recovery?
Sudden learned helplessness
Sudden reversal of extinction
A result of operant conditioning
A neutral stimulus
43
Confounding variables are...
Factors other than the IV that could impact results
Variables you found
The variables you were looking for all along
Variables you find
44
Which schedule of reinforcement gets the best results?
Variable-interval
Fixed-interval
Variable-ratio
Fixed-ratio
45
Human factors psychologists...
Factor humans in to experiments done on rodents
Believe in the Schachter Two-Factor Theory
Apply information about human behavior to design
Study human-related trivia
46
Dual processing has to do with...
Genes and heritability
Chromosomes
DNA
Conscious and unconscious brain activity
47
What is latent learning?
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Making a cognitive map
Learning that occurs but is not apparent
Learning that is solely based on mirror neurons
48
What is the law of effect?
Negative reinforcement has bad effects
If a behavior has a good consequence, it'll be repeated
Positive reinforcement has good effects
Primary reinforcers are different from secondary reinforcers
49
Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner studied...
Learning
Behaviorism
Conditioning
Little Albert
50
Should I have a question for every vocab word, or have I been sacrificing quality for quantity?
Stop you're being so annoying you're not funny
It'll end up 1000 questions but you have to suffer for art
Aww thanks for giving us a free right answer
Idc do what you wnat
51
What is an electroencephalogram?
A lesion
Basically the same thing as a computed tomography scan
A positron emission tomography with electricity
Recording of electrical activity on the brain's surface
52
Processing that starts with basic sensory information is...
Bottom-up
Based on hue
An example of signal detection theory
Top-down
53
Industrial-organizational psychologists...
Organization of factories
Study how to increase productivity in workplaces
Large organizations
Social impacts of industrialization
54
The variable that changes as the result of the IV is...
Hopefully nothing
The dependent variable
The confounding variable
Not yet
55
Counseling psychologists...
Counsel those suffering from severe mental illnesses
Advise experimenters
Work on councils
Help people make/adjust to life changes
56
Pseudo-psychology is...
Erroneous assertions set forth as scientific psychology
The psychological perspective of Nemo Pseudo
Psychiatry
The one true religion
57
Jean Piaget was a _______ psychologist who studied ___________.
Cognitive, cognitive development of children
Psychodynamic, id development
Cognitive, learning in primates
Humanist, children's potential
58
What is introspection?
Looking in a high-power mirror
Introversion
Looking inside a patient with a small camera
A method of self-observation
59
The most frequently occurring score in a distribution is the...
Maximum
Average
Mode
Mean
60
What is conduction hearing loss caused by?
Nothing, it doesn't exist
Electrical currents
Abnormal brain waves
Damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves
61
Structuralism was pioneered by...
Wilhelm Wundt
Martin Seligman
Aristotle
William James
62
Functionalism was most closely associated with...
William James
Vassily Kuragin
Formal functions
Pseudo-psychology
63
This occurs when increasingly larger doses are needed for the same effect to occur.
Opiate use
Tolerance
You keep taking more until the world supply is exhausted
Psychoactive drug use
64
Parallel processing is...
The opposite of pitch
Sensation of several aspect of a problem simultaneously
A sensation that is linear and never intersects
Processing of several aspects of a problem simultaneously
65
The "I knew it all along" phenomenon is...
This is not a real phenomenon
Hindsight bias
Critical thinking
Common mental state in early stages of cognitive development
66
What is a case study?
A survey given to over 200 people
When one person is studied to reveal universal principles
A study to improve luggage efficiency
A study on rats that takes place inside a small box
67
Not blindly accepting arguments and conclusions is called...
Hypothesizing
Critical thinking
Theorizing
Bias
68
What is classical conditioning?
Learning that takes place when 2 or more stimuli are paired
Conditioned stimuli and responses
An unconditioned response
An unconditioned stimulus
69
On January 27th, a man died after the strong magnetic force of ______ trapped him.
A computed tomography scanner
Glial cells
A magnetic resonance imaging machine
Love
70
Amphetamines are...
Ancient Scottish rites involving potato sacrifice
Hallucinogens
Depressants
Stimulants
71
What is the controversy over genes' and experiences' impacts on development
Nature vs untrue
Nature vs nurture
There is no such controversy
Mature vs nurture
72
This research method involves an IV manipulated by an investigator
Case study
Survey
Experiment
Random assignment
73
Wavelength is...
Distance from the peak of one light/sound wave to another
The difference between high and low tide
Intensely perceived
The length between waves in a body of water
74
An operational definition is...
The process by which one defines operations
The name of an operation
The definition of a research variable
An in-depth explanation of a hypothesis
75
What do behaviorists believe?
Psychology should study how mental processes cause behaviors
Behaviors are caused by the id
Psychology is the study of behavior, not mental processes
Behavior is not related to conventional psychology
76
Samples should be...
Chosen to reflect what the experimenter wants
Random
Not included in experiments
No more than 3 people
77
Which of the following is used to see if findings of a study extend to other circumstances?
Replication
Surveys
Random samples
Case studies
78
What is informed consent?
People are told enough to decide if they want to participate
A good education
Knowing the mean
Debriefing
79
What is a normal curve?
(1/√(2πσ2))e((x-μ)^2)/(2σ^2)
A standard deviation
A shape that shows the distribution of many types of data
Abnormal, but somewhat curvaceous
80
Which nervous system makes you nervous?
Sympathetic
Endocrine
Parasympathetic
The scary one
81
How long is a circadian rhythm?
24 hours
1.5 hours
Cicadas are not rhythmic
1 hour
82
Select a hearing theory.
Place theory
Gate-control theory
Weber's law
Frequency theory
83
What are efferent neurons also called?
Somatic nervous system
Afferent neurons
Autonomic nervous system
Motor neurons
84
What is memory?
Memes
Storage and retrieval of information
Dreams
Encoding
85
A functional MRI can reveal...
Only somatosensory cortext activity
Blood flow
The limbic system
Only motor cortex activity
86
What is a discriminative stimulus?
Behind the times
Stimulating
Bigoted
Elicits a response after association with reinforcement
87
The branch of medicine that involves medical treatments for psychological problems is called...
Psychiatry
The physical perspective
Psychometrics
Psychodynamics
88
What is the median?
The middle score in a distribution
What isn't the median?
The minimum
A strip of land between lanes
89
The actual events in a dream are called...
Latent content
Dreams don't actually exist
Manifest content
Inception
90
What is a population?
Idk, but definitely don't draw samples from it
In the US it's approximately 326 million
The group that receives the independent variable
All the cases in a group being studied
