AP Psych Mid Term Review 18 19

Question 1

“The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

Accepted Answer

short-term

Question 2

A hypothesis is a(n):

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Testable prediction that gives direction to research

Question 3

Our adaptive behaviors are learned and maintained because they help us be more effective

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functionalism (Titchener/James)

Question 4

Piaget's theory is based on __________ development

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cognitive

Question 5

An individual with damage to the Wernicke’s area is most likely to have difficulty

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Comprehending a spoken request for information

Question 6

What was most influential in Loftus' memory construction studies about a car accident?

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wording of the question

Question 7

Hypothetical and deductive thinking are most characteristic of Piaget's

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Formal operational stage

Question 8

Erikson's young adulthood stage associated with finding a life partner to share everything with

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intimacy vs isolation

Question 9

The association area that controls language expression & speech muscle movements

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Broca's area

Question 10

Which measure of central tendency is used to calculate your grade point average?

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Mean

Question 11

What hormone seems to be most closely associated with aggressive behavior?

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Testosterone

Question 12

Guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association make sure research participants

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Are protected from physical and psychological harm

Question 13

Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention is known as

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automatic processing.

Question 14

This sac in the neuron contains the neurotransmitters

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vesicles

Question 15

Memories of well-learned skills such, as riding a bicycle, are classified as

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Procedural

Question 16

A substance that crosses the placenta and harms an unborn child is a(n)

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teratogen

Question 17

Self-defined ethical principals would be which stage of Kohlberg's Moral development?

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postconventional

Question 18

Memory is best defined as

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persistence of learning through storage and retrieval

Question 19

Temperament is

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a person's relatively stable emotional reactivity/intensity

Question 20

A gender role is

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a set of expected behaviors for males and females

Question 21

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of

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behavior and mental processes

Question 22

His monkey's preferred comfort to nourishment

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Harlow

Question 23

Dendrites do this

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receive information from other neurons

Question 24

Who suggested the mind was a blank slate upon which experience writes?

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John Locke

Question 25

An individual with damage to the Wernicke’s area is most likely to have difficulty

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Comprehending a spoken request for information

Question 26

Limbic system (amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, Hypothalamus) is most closely associated with

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Emotions

Question 27

The pituitary gland is controlled by the

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Hypothalamus

Question 28

This memory strategy would be best for remembering a phone number you need to call soon

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rehearsal

Question 29

The self-reflective observation of one’s own sensations and feelings is called:

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Introspection

Question 30

This diagram above depicts the human body’s

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Endocrine system

Question 31

The idea that the mind functions by combining objective sensations and subjective feelings

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structuralism (Wundt)

Question 32

Kohlberg's stage based on avoiding punishment and concrete rewards

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preconventional

Question 33

Which is not one of the three main concerns of developmental psychologists?

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psychosocial/humanistic

Question 34

Pruning occurs when

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the brain gets rid of unused neural connections

Question 35

This scatter plot shows

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A positive correlation

Question 36

If (____________?) then (__________?)

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independent variable: dependent variable

AP Psych Mid Term Review 18 19

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AP Psych Mid Term Review 18 19

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