AP Psych MP2 Quarterly Review

Question 1

What happens when a rat's ventromedial hypothalamus is damaged?

Accepted Answer

the rat becomes extremely overweight

Question 2

Janie does not hear her mom calling her, because she is focused on the TV. What concept?

Accepted Answer

selective attention

Question 3

This part of the eye is responsible for controlling the size of the pupil opening.

Accepted Answer

iris

Question 4

Which theory states that the retina contains three different color receptor cells?

Accepted Answer

Young-Helmholtz

Question 5

This is the sense of body position, movement and balance.

Accepted Answer

vestibular sense

Question 6

What is precognition?

Accepted Answer

the ability to perceive the outcome of future events

Question 7

What does "Gestalt" mean?

Accepted Answer

whole

Question 8

You tear your house apart looking for a screwdriver when you could have used a knife.

Accepted Answer

functional fixedness

Question 9

Remembering how to play the guitar after not playing for several years is what type of memory?

Accepted Answer

implicit

Question 10

Which appetite sends "I'm hungry" signals to the brain?

Accepted Answer

ghrelin

Question 11

Students do not realize that their teacher changed her scarf twice during class. Which concept?

Accepted Answer

change blindness

Question 12

What are feature detectors?

Accepted Answer

cells that respond to stimuli's shapes, angles, or movements

Question 13

Which level of encoding has the highest recognition rate for words?

Accepted Answer

semantic

Question 14

An FRQ on an AP Psychology exam tests your ________ thinking

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 15

What is the role of lymphocytes?

Accepted Answer

to fight infections and foreign substances

Question 16

You get a bad grade on a quiz. When somebody bumps into you in the hall, you snap at them.

Accepted Answer

spillover effect

Question 17

You think that Bruce Springsteen sang "Jack and Diane," when John Mellencamp is the real singer

Accepted Answer

source amnesia

Question 18

True or false: Cones are responsible for peripheral and twilight vision.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 19

Which theory is characterized by a physiological need creating an aroused state?

Accepted Answer

drive-reduction theory

Question 20

This eating disorder is characterized by obsession with weight loss and reduced calories intake

Accepted Answer

anorexia nervosa

Question 21

Tara always feels like she has to be the best. She's always punctual, impatient, and serious.

Accepted Answer

Type A personality

Question 22

A scientist ignores results that do not fit her hypothesis. What is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

confirmation bias

Question 23

Jenny sees a snake. Her heart rate increases, she screams, and she runs away. Which theory?

Accepted Answer

Cannon-Bard

Question 24

What part of the brain are the "hunger controls" located in?

Accepted Answer

hypothalamus

Question 25

What is an example of framing?

Accepted Answer

"90% success rate" vs. "10% failure rate"

Question 26

You are stressed about quarterlies and pull several all-nighters. You get a cold as a result.

Accepted Answer

general adaptation syndrome

Question 27

What is a critical period with regards to children developing language?

Accepted Answer

they must be exposed by ~age 7 or they won't learn it

Question 28

Mr. Smith did not hear the student's ringtone, because it was below his...

Accepted Answer

absolute threshold

Question 29

Mark is watching a scary movie when he hears something outside. He immediately thinks "burglar"

Accepted Answer

perceptual set

Question 30

What is the representativeness heuristic?

Accepted Answer

making judgments based off how well things fit a prototype

Question 31

True or false: The older-brother effect is only found in right-handed men

Accepted Answer

true

Question 32

The three steps of processing memories are...

Accepted Answer

encoding, storage, retrieval

Question 33

Multiple-choice tests involve testing our ___

Accepted Answer

recognition

Question 34

A robin is _______ of a bird, because it has feathers, wings, and can fly.

Accepted Answer

prototype

Question 35

Gianna is hungry and smells fresh, hot popcorn, which she eats. What is the popcorn's role?

Accepted Answer

incentive

Question 36

Which sense does NOT go through the thalamus?

Accepted Answer

smell

Question 37

This binocular depth cue involves comparing images from the retinas of both eyes.

Accepted Answer

retinal disparity

Question 38

Joel claims the he can read people's minds. Which concept is this?

Accepted Answer

telepathy

Question 39

Salmon return to their birthplace to reproduce. What is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

instinct

Question 40

More people chose to drive than fly after 9/11, because of what they heard on the news.

Accepted Answer

availability heuristic

Question 41

What did sour and bitter tastes used to be associated with?

Accepted Answer

poison

Question 42

What happens to fat cells when a person loses weight?

Accepted Answer

they shrink in size, but do not go away

Question 43

You can only remember the last three items on a grocery list. What is this concept?

Accepted Answer

recency effect

Question 44

Which theory involves arousal first and the emotion second?

Accepted Answer

James-Lange

Question 45

How many pieces of information can our short-term memory hold?

Accepted Answer

~7

Question 46

Which type of processing involves using higher-level mental processes?

Accepted Answer

top-down processing

Question 47

What is long-term potentiation?

Accepted Answer

an increase in synapses' firing potential after stimulation

Question 48

What are nociceptors responsible for?

Accepted Answer

pain

Question 49

What is the function of the sympathetic nervous system?

Accepted Answer

fight or flight

Question 50

Olivia's dog looks lighter in the sun than indoors. The dog did not change color. What concept?

Accepted Answer

color constancy

Question 51

You are thrilled to get into Rutgers, until you learn that your friend got into Princeton.

Accepted Answer

relative deprivation

Question 52

This type of processing involves attention and conscious effort

Accepted Answer

effortful processing

Question 53

This type of hearing loss involves damage to the ear's mechanical system.

Accepted Answer

conductive hearing loss

Question 54

Danny is interested in extreme sports and wants to go sky-diving on his birthday. Which theory?

Accepted Answer

optimum arousal theory

Question 55

What is overgeneralization?

Accepted Answer

children adding -ed to irregular verbs

Question 56

Which parts of the brain make up the limbic system?

Accepted Answer

hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala

Question 57

You keep dialing your friend's old phone number even though she changed it two weeks ago.

Accepted Answer

proactive interference

Question 58

Which need is immediately above physiological needs on Maslow's hierarchy?

Accepted Answer

safety needs

Question 59

What is the smallest unit that has meaning?

Accepted Answer

morpheme

Question 60

Which theory states that pitch is linked to where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated?

Accepted Answer

place theory

AP Psych MP2 Quarterly Review

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AP Psych MP2 Quarterly Review

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