AP Psych Exam 150 Q

A personality measure that asks you to respond freely to an ambiguous stimulus (ex. inkblot) is

The superego is Freud's term for...

A father suggests that his son's low marks are due to the child's laziness. He has made...

The area of psychology referring to mental processes or thinking is known as...

In Pavlov's experiment, the unconditioned stimulus was the...

The gambler's fallacy reflects the influence of the...

At which stage do people use a personal code of ethics to guide their moral reasoning?

A person who loses memories of events that occur following a head injury is experiencing...

You see a female VP being pushy/aggressive, and then assume all female VPs are this way, which

In relation to age, which of the following does not belong with the others?

The neurotransmitter associated with schizophrenia is...

What appears to be responsible for regulating circadian rhythm?

Multiple-choice tests use what measure of memory?

If the occipital lobe is stimulated, the person would be most likely to report...

Putting group goals ahead of personal goals & defining one's identity in terms of the group is

The ability to generate ideas that are original, novel, and useful defines...

Reliability refers to the _______ of a measuring device, such as a test. 

Homeostasis is a state of...

Sleep spindles are characteristic of which stage of the sleep cycle?

According to Freud, nail-biting may be evidence of fixation at the _____ stage of development.

A rat learns to press a bar to turn off an electric shock. This is an example of...

If Jane used an external attribution to explain why her son got into a fight, she would say...

Severing the reticular formation in cats caused them to

The hypothalamus communicates with the endocrine system by way of the..

Which statistical method is used to determine the reliability of a test?

Yielding to real or imagined social pressure defines...

Cohort effects are most closely associated with which research design?

The assumption of a preoperational child that a car is moving because she is in it demonstrates

Destroying part of the brain tissue to observe its effect on behavior is referred to as...

A person who perceives stimuli that aren't there is said to have...

Which of the following statements is the best example of telegraphic speech?

The decrease in individual effort exerted by group members when working together on a task is..

Depression is an example of a _____ mood disorder.

The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that...

In which level of processing is an emphasis placed on the sounds of words?

The largely unconscious reactions used to protect us from guilt and anxiety are known as...

The chemicals that are secreted from the terminal buttons into the synapse are...

Prejudice is to discrimination as...

A drug that depresses central nervous system activity is referred to as...

The last are of the brain to fully mature in late adolescence or early adulthood is the...

Cultural norms that determine which facial expressions are appropriate for what occasions are..

If you were awakened during REM sleep, you would probably report that you had...

Failure to actively seek out contrary evidence may lead to...

The EEG pattern associated with normal, waking, alert states is...

We often perceive a series of dots as a "solid" line because of the Gestalt principle of...

If you suffer from depression, which type of psychologists would be of the most help to you?

Hadley uses ____ to relieve the symptoms of her glaucoma and relax her. 

An electroencephalograph is used in sleep research to measure brain-wave activity in the...

Free association and dream analysis were held to be major methods to discover the makeup of...

The gradual disappearance of an operant response that is no longer being reinforced is called..

After having his first ice cream cone yesterday, Dave keeps asking for ice cream, demonstrating

Rehearsal is most beneficial for maintaining information in _______ memory.

The sensory receptors for smell are referred to as...

PTSD is an example of what kind of disorder?

The most optimistic view of human nature is found in the ________ approach. 

The wavelength of light mainly affects our perception of...

Which type of data collection is the best for studying attitudes?

Which of the following disorders/issues would be least likely to be treated by a psychiatrist?

If two sounds vary in frequency they are perceived as differing in...

During the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, a child experiences the world through..

The amygdala plays a role in the modulation of which emotion?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of antisocial personality disorder?

What is not a characteristic of groupthink?

If a teacher gives an exam with questions that were not covered in class, the test lacks..

Learning that is not apparent from behavior when it first occurs is known as...

Classical conditioning could account for how a child learns to...

The fundamental attribution error leads observers to attribute crime in poor neighborhoods to..

Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events defines...

When people overestimate the frequency of violent crimes because these events are on TV, they..

The minimum stimulus intensity of any sensory input that an organism can detect is called the..

Substances such as viruses and drugs that can harm a developing fetus are known as...

Which of the following does not belong with the other three?

Although Sheri falls asleep easily, she has difficulty remaining asleep. Sheri suffers from..

A valid test is one that...

The hypothalamus influences or regulates all of the following except...

The idea that we should pay back in kind what we receive from others is known as the..

The process of selectively reinforcing responses that are closer to the desired response is..

The awareness of self, your thoughts, internal sensations and external stimuli is defined as...

The structure that controls the size of the pupil is the...

What kind of validity do the ACT and SAT strive for?

If a psychological test intends to tell you how you score relative to others, they must develop

The minimum length of time between action potentials is determined by...

If a dog salivates to a blue light but not a yellow light, the dog is demonstrating...

What is somnambulism?

Common side effects of ____ include mood swings, aggression, and impaired mental functioning.

A stimulus evokes a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus in...

Negative reinforcement involves...

The characteristic mood, activity level, and emotional reactivity of an infant is their...

Watson defined psychology as the scientific study of...

Which of the following is a mood disorder?

Learning to crawl is an example of which motor development sequence?

The deepest level of processing which involves emphasizing the meaning of words is known as...

Inferences that people draw about the causes of their and other's behavior are known as..

Which brain structure is most closely related to regulating emotions?

Unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events are called...

According to the James-Lange theory, one's conscious experience of emotion occurs..

In Milgram's study of obedience, subjects...

The process of pushing distressing thoughts into the unconscious and keeping them there is...

The registration of sensory input without conscious awareness refers to

Which of the following is not a common effect of hypnosis?

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon can best be described as an instance of...

The ability to rapidly process words in reading depends most on...

Dave washes his hands 50 times a day, even when they're not dirty. This is an example of..

An antagonist...

Aggression is often a behavioral response to stressors involving...

Freud concluded that psychological disturbances are largely caused by...

The Binet-Simon scale of intelligence expressed a child's score in terms of...

The gate-control theory suggests that incoming pain sensations may be blocked at the...

Most explanations for the Flynn effect revolve around...

Which type of intelligence involves the ability to apply acquired knowledge in problem solving?

A worker who is paid every Friday for completing his 40-hour work week is being paid on a...

In the Little Albert experiment, the conditioned stimulus was the...

According to the notion of semantic networks, which word pair should be linked most closely?

Which technique would be most useful for locating specific neurotransmitters in the brain?

The structure of the ear that transduces sound vibrations into nerve impulses is the...

Widely held beliefs about groups of people based on their group membership defines...

In order for a memory to be stored, it must first be..

When Bob hits his thumb with a hammer, the sensation will be transmitted to the CNS by...

People who have hormonal imbalances have problems with their...

What is cognitive dissonance?

The structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain is called the...

Conditioned taste aversions represent an unusual or atypical example of...

The production of speech is controlled by which area of the frontal lobe?

Five-year-old Bob washes his bike after seeing his father was his car, demonstrating...

Tension reduction is the goal of which motivational theory?

When a choice must be made between two unattractive goals, you are experiencing...

A student's organized set of expectations on how a professor should act is an example of a..

The sickly child who becomes a forceful, physically active adult demonstrates what Adler called

Mary Ainsworth's strategy for studying infant attachment is known as the __________ procedure.

According to the five-factor model, people who score _____ tend to be trusting and cooperative.

According to the medical model...

Alice has a dog phobia, and is being told to completely relax and imagine a dog. This is...

Anhedonia is when a person...

Expectations about what is appropriate behavior for each sex most accurately describes...

The test you are currently taking is an example of what kind of test?

Voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences in what type of learning?

A perceptual set implies that...

In experiments, subjects that receive special treatment are known as...

Slot machines increase gambling behavior through the use of...

Framing refers to...

Potty training is a key challenge in which of Erikson's stages of development?

The function of sensory memory is to...

The school of psychology associated with understanding the purpose of behavior is...

The idea that dreams are the cortex's attempt to make sense of general firing of the brain is..

Diffusion of responsibility refers to the...

Jay used to say "mikk", but now says "milk" properly, meaning he has made gains in the use of..

____ measure general mental ability while ___ measure various aspects of people (values, etc). 

Which of the following is not one of the intelligence types described by Gardner?

Your GPA is an example of which measure of central tendency?

Who is responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline?