2022 (Unit 1-7) AP Psychology Psychology Exam Review

Question 1

Which method of coping attempts to alleviate stress directly?

Accepted Answer

Problem-Focused Coping

Question 2

What is the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster?

Accepted Answer

Fovea

Question 3

What are the opposing retinal processes of the opponent-process theory?

Accepted Answer

Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black

Question 4

Which study compares people of different ages at the same time?

Accepted Answer

Cross-Sectional Study

Question 5

What is a desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people, or ideas?

Accepted Answer

Achievement Motivation

Question 6

The picture below portrays what idea?

Accepted Answer

Visual Cliff

Question 7

What are the threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes?

Accepted Answer

Chromosomes

Question 8

What is the complete genetic instructions for making an organism?

Accepted Answer

Genome

Question 9

True or False: High reliability ensures a test's validity.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

Which theory of emotion states that arousal and emotion occur simultaneously?

Accepted Answer

Cannon-Bard

Question 11

What is the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself?

Accepted Answer

Relative Deprivation

Question 12

Which technique depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose?

Accepted Answer

PET

Question 13

Which form of processing depends on our past experiences and expectations?

Accepted Answer

Top-down processing

Question 14

The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?

Accepted Answer

Interposition

Question 15

The word 'but' has how many phonemes?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 16

In Pavlov's experiments, what is the conditioned stimulus?

Accepted Answer

Sound of Bell

Question 17

Which kind of drugs depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but impairing memory?

Accepted Answer

Barbiturates

Question 18

What is the name for the regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?

Accepted Answer

Circadian Rhythm

Question 19

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...

Accepted Answer

Behavior and Mental Processes

Question 20

What is known as the "Aha!" moment?

Accepted Answer

Insight

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT one of Garner's eight intelligences?

Accepted Answer

Practical

Question 22

Republicans often watch conservative media because it supports their views and avoids liberal views-- an example of....

Accepted Answer

Confirmation bias

Question 23

The diagram below is an example of what idea?

Accepted Answer

Drive-Reduction Theory

Question 24

Which stage of Freud's psychosexual stages is characterized by dormant sexual feelings?

Accepted Answer

Latency

Question 25

The application of psychological ideas and methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces is

Accepted Answer

Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Question 26

Which of the following tests is designed to predict a person's future performance?

Accepted Answer

Aptitude Test

Question 27

What is the fertilized egg that enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division?

Accepted Answer

Zygote

Question 28

What is the tendency of people to be helpful when already in a good mood?

Accepted Answer

Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon

Question 29

What is the ability of produce novel and valuable ideas?

Accepted Answer

Creativity

Question 30

Which structure of the brain helps process explicit memories for storage?

Accepted Answer

Hippocampus

Question 31

The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is...

Accepted Answer

Basal Metabolic Rate

Question 32

Which personality type is competitive, impatient, verbally-aggressive, and anger-prone?

Accepted Answer

Type A

Question 33

Most people would eat a burger that is 75% lean rather than 25% fat. This is an example of.....

Accepted Answer

Framing

Question 34

What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?

Accepted Answer

Movement

Question 35

According to Erikson, the issue of integrity vs. despair occurs at what time in one's life?

Accepted Answer

Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)

Question 36

You meet a new student; he's 6 1/2 ft (2 m.) tall and athletic. You assume he is a basketball player. You are using a(n)

Accepted Answer

Representativeness heuristic

Question 37

The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is...

Accepted Answer

Modeling

Question 38

Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?

Accepted Answer

Humanistic

Question 39

What is the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response?

Accepted Answer

Spontaneous Recovery

Question 40

Joe believes Earth is flat. When shown a globe, he says, "Fake News" and continues to be a "Flat-Earther". This is...

Accepted Answer

Belief Perseverence

Question 41

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare" is called...

Accepted Answer

Both B and C

Question 42

What are the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state?

Accepted Answer

Alpha

Question 43

What is a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity?

Accepted Answer

Temperament

Question 44

What is the body's speedy, electrochemical communication network?

Accepted Answer

Nervous System

Question 45

People from which type of culture may act shy in new groups and are more easily embarrassed?

Accepted Answer

Collectivist

Question 46

Who concluded that the mind is separable from the body, and that knowledge is innate?

Accepted Answer

Socrates

Question 47

Which of the following is NOT a projective test?

Accepted Answer

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Question 48

The diagram below depicts which theory of emotion?

Accepted Answer

James-Lange

Question 49

Which of the following is NOT a sympathetic division response?

Accepted Answer

Pupils Contract

Question 50

What is the incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event?

Accepted Answer

Misinformation Effect

Question 51

Which part of the neuron receives messages and conducts impulses toward the cell body?

Accepted Answer

Dendrite

Question 52

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is...

Accepted Answer

Morpheme

Question 53

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units is called...

Accepted Answer

Chunking

Question 54

According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline and underlying meaning of a dream? ___ ___

Accepted Answer

Manifest Content and Latent Content

Question 55

The basic defense mechanism that ejects anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories is...

Accepted Answer

Repression

Question 56

Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?

Accepted Answer

Acetylcholine (ACh)

Question 57

You see a tragic story on Twitter about a scary kidnapping. You overestimate the chances of this happening due to the

Accepted Answer

availability heuristic

Question 58

Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?

Accepted Answer

Illusory Correlation

Question 59

A correlation coefficient of +.95 signifies...

Accepted Answer

A strong, positive correlation

Question 60

According to Piaget, during what stage does one develop object permanence?

Accepted Answer

Sensorimotor

Question 61

What is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behavior?

Accepted Answer

False Consensus Effect

Question 62

Which perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?

Accepted Answer

Cognitive

Question 63

Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think is known as...

Accepted Answer

Linguistic Determinism

Question 64

When trying to solve a problem, Bret uses a, logical step-by step formula called a(n)

Accepted Answer

Algorithm

2022 (Unit 1-7) AP Psychology Psychology Exam Review

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2022 (Unit 1-7) AP Psychology Psychology Exam Review

Questions 82