AP Psych Final #3 2024

Mental short-cuts

The definition of insanity is trying the same repeatedly and expecting different results

Accidentally calling your current boyfriend by your ex's name

I would rather eat yogurt that is 98% fat free than 2% fat

Multiple-choice questions

Being able to tie your shoes

Creating stories to help improve your memory of a list of words

In an experiment, the rats learned how to escape maze but didn't demonstrate it until PR was offered

If a standardized test adequately measures how well high school students will do in college, it has

Jessi is 8-years-old with a mental age of 12. Her IQ score

Money can be used to buy food, shelter, and other basic needs

Research on the misinformation effect suggests

Why even study this? I'm going to fail anyways :(

You are able to drive home from school almost unconsciously because you (like those rats) have developed a

If a behavior is reinforced it is

Reverend Bowden's kids learn to love the University of Michigan by watching their dad cheer for the Wolverines

Reinforcers that satisfy biological needs

The best example of a category

If conditioning has an evolutionary purpose, it is more likely to be learned

Blinking when a puff of air is blown into your eyes. The blink is the

Remembering the first items from a list

Judging things by how well they match our prototypes

Little Albert learned to fear not just white rats, but all furry things

People like YOU never pass AP Psych (this increases your anxiety about the final)

Committing words to memory based on their meaning

Remembering where you live and other general knowledge

Adding an unpleasant stimulus in order to decrease the behavior in the future

I can't remember students from 2004 because I have 150 new students in 2024

Being good at word games means you have high levels of

Adding a pleasant stimulus in order to increase a behavior

When the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus

Becoming stuck because you think every object has only one purpose

According to the Flynn effect

Raising your hand and the teacher calls on you. Skinner thinks you are more likely to raise your hand in the future

Pavlov taught dogs to make a learned association between the sound of a bell and food

Memory that is unconsciously encoded and retrieved is part of

Instead of engaging with the class clown, Mr. Render removes him from the class, depriving him of attention. It works.

In Pavlov's experiment, the salivation after the bell was the

I spent $10,000 on travel soccer to further my 5-year-old's career. He now has to play soccer for the rest of his life

This final, cause it is based on what you know

I saw a movie about man-eating piranhas. I will never step in a lake again

Withdrawing a pleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior

I knew the Kansas City Chiefs were going to win the Super Bowl in 2024

Slot machines work on which schedule?

The biological explanation for observational learning is