stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
AP Psychology Exam Review Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
AP Psychology Exam Review
AP Psychology Exam Review
64 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
22 plays
Year in Review
Flashcards
64 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
64
Answers
1
Having a fear of flying due to the recent situations with Boeing airplanes is the result of
inattentional blindness
availability heuristic
perception
representativeness heuristic
2
This ad is utilizing (the) ___ to get you to buy their fast food.
central route to persuasion
algorithms
hueristics
peripheral route to persuasion
3
____ assumes gender identity is acquired by observing and imitating others
intuition
informational social influence
gender typing
social learning theory
4
Due to issues with developing a proper theory of mind, signs of Autism are often recognized during Piaget's
Sensorimotor Stage
Formal Operational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Preoperational Stage
5
Linguist Noam Chomsky proposed the idea of
universal grammar
aphasia
productive language
linguistic determinism
6
If a distribution of scores is skewed, which measure of central tendency is most representative
standard deviation
median
correlational coefficient
mean
7
There is a negative correlation between watching TV and grades. Which shows that?
not enough information to determine
low grades, low TV watching
high grades, high TV watching
high grades, low TV watching
8
Which branch of the nervous systems engages fight or flight?
parasympathetic nervous system
somatic nervous system
sympathetic nervous system
central nervous system
9
Peak performance on your exam will be dependent upon a moderate level of arousal. This is known as
Weber's Law
The McGurk Effect
Yerkes Dodson Law
General Adaptation Syndrom
10
The most common prescription for people suffering from depression is
EDMR
SSRIs
Beck's Cognitive Therapy
Anti-psychotics
11
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure is its
ghrelin
set point
basal metabolic rate
drive reduction
12
Clustered in the fovea, these color receptors send messages to bipolar cells
rods
ganglion cell
cones
optic nerve
13
According to Pavlov, the dogs reaction to this routine is demonstrating a
conditioned response
stimulus response
unconditioned stimulus
conditioned stimulus
14
Being empirically derived means that research is
observational in nature
based on science
crystalized
standardized
15
If you display no fear when encountering this image in real life, you may not have a fully functional
amygdala
thalamus
pituitary gland
hypothalamus
16
Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea, or nerve deafness
conduction deafness
tardive dyskenisia
sensorineural deafness
frequency theory
17
One of the best understood neurotransmitters that aids in learning and memory is
acetylcholine
serotonin
GABA
dopamine
18
The little boy punched a hole in the wall after being sent to his room by his mom. Name the defense mechanism
rationalization
sublimination
regression
displacement
19
Which of the following has disrupted your vestibular sense?
dizziness or loss of balance
loss of ability to taste
inability to detect pain
loss of color vision
20
Rewarding every 5th behavior is based on a
fixed ratio schedule
variable ratio schedule
variable interval schedule
fixed interval schedule
21
Explicit memories are recalled through
serial positioning
automatic processing
effortful processing
mnemonic devices
22
When sad, you are likely to remember other times you felt sad, sinking you deeper into your sadness. This is due to
Iconic Memory
State Dependent Memory
Latent Learning
Neuroplasticity
23
Distorted perceptions and evoking sensory images despite the lack of sensory input results from
Barbituates
Hallucinogens
Bi-Polar Disorder
Anti-Social Disorder
24
Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus is
sensation
top down processing
bottom up processing
selective attention
25
Which of the following parts of the brain's primary function is information processing?
hyphothalamus
medulla
corpus callosum
cerebral cortex
26
The Rorsach Inkblot Test and Thematic Apperception Test are examples of
Projective Tests
Achievement Tests
Intelligence Tests
Standardized Tests
27
When trying to remember new information, it is best to relate it to ones self or to tell a story. This is known as
iconic encoding
echonic encoding
encoding failure
semantic encoding
28
What type of psychology would be associated with understanding the following image?
Forensic
Gestalt
Functional
Humanistic
29
Structuralism is based on which of the following concepts
experimentation
empiricism
introspection
functionalism
30
Inability to sleep due to cessations in breathing is known as
narcolepsy
night terrors
REM rebound
sleep apnea
31
Who is responsible for this study of attachment?
Bandura
Ainsworth
Vygotsky
Harlow
32
Language activity is shown to be dominant in the
brain stem
left hemisphere
cerebellum
right hemisphere
33
Which of the following psychologists promoted the idea of g in regards to intelligence?
Spearman
Sternberg
Gardner
Terman
34
Which of the following parenting styles results in the most well-adjusted children?
Negligent
Authoritarian
Permissive
Authoritative
35
the awake but relaxed state will produce
delta waves
alpha waves
sleep spindles
REM
36
The Schachter Singer 2 Factor Theory says
there is physical reaction and cognitive label to emotion
emotions result from physical reactions
physiological reactions occur simultaneously with emotion
emotions happen without thinking
37
Facial muscles can trigger corresponding feelings of fear, anger, or happiness. This is part of
universal expression
phi phenomenon
biofeedback
general adaptation syndrome
38
The branch of psychology that focuses on helping people that aren't sick is
psychodynamic
cognitive
evolutionary
humanistic
39
According to thinking and concepts, this image is likely your _____ for high school.
mental set
cognitive map
phoneme
prototype
40
The fundamental attribution error blames ___ for their condition.
People
Cats
Situations
Religion
41
The ability to adjust sensory input, say to our visual field, is explained by
binocular cues
perceptual adaptation
facial feedback
color constancy
42
Examining measurement tools for things such as traits, intelligence, or attitudes is known as
psychometrics
human factors psychology
transduction
psychodynamics
43
Many psychology tests use this, a statistical procedure to identify related items
predictive validity
empirical evidence
factor analysis
transduction
44
Damage to the frontal lobe would impact
sensory and motor neural communication
thinking, planning, judgement, decision making
release of serotonin
hunger, thirst, and sex drives
45
While ethically unsound, obedience was best studied by
Darley & Latane
Solomon Asch
Stanley Milgram
Philip Zimbardo
46
The cyclical process of external influences impacting cognition and behaviors is known as
mood congruence
the person situation controversy
the biopsychosocial approach
reciprocal determinism
47
OCD is an example of a(n)
mood disorder
anxiety disorder
personality disorder
schizoid disorder
48
Which of the following is NOT a part of the limbic system?
thalamus
amygdala
hypothalamus
hippocampus
49
Between these two neurons is the
axon
myelin sheath
dendrite
synapse
50
In order to help someone overcome claustrophobia, your best treatment would be
Systematic Desensitization
Psychopharmacology
Client Centered Therapy
Aversive Conditioning
51
An external locus of control would blame all EXCEPT ____ for your performance on the AP exam
Yourself
Unfair questions on the test
Lack of sleep
Mrs. Peavy's inadequate preparation
52
The difference between experiencing delusions and dissociations is the difference between
PTSD & Schizophrenia
DID & Depression
Schizophrenia & DID
OCD & Conversion Disorder
53
Being unaware that you are wearing underwear after you put them on is a result of
subliminal messaging
sensory adaptation
Weber's Law
difference threshold
54
Epinephrine and norepinephrine increase energy and are released by the
pituitary gland
adrenal gland
hypothalamus
thyroid
55
Stressed people are more prone to all of the following EXCEPT
AIDS
illness
heart disease
slower healing times
56
Martin Luther King Jr displayed
preconventional morality
concrete morality
conventional morality
postconventional morality
57
a molecule that binds to a receptor and stimulates a response by mimicking a neurotransmitter
glutamate
agonist
antagonist
endorphins
58
If you wanted to examine the electrical activity in the brain, you should use a(n)
PET scan
MRI
fMRI
EEG
59
When a client projects their feelings onto their therapist, it is known as
sublimation
repression
transference
reaction formation
60
The SAT is a(n)
achievement test
aptitude test
IQ test
projective test
61
afterimages such as this, help explain color blindnesses, referred to as the
place theory
pitch theory
young-helmoltz theory
opponent process theory
62
If you are less startled by thunder with repeated exposure you are demonstrating
assimilation
habituation
rooting
accommodation
63
According to Ebbinghaus' research, we
we experience memory decay in the absence of rehearsal
algorithms take the longest to remember
iconic memories are most often converted to long term memory
we boost crystalized knowledge via echoic memory
64
How should a researcher most accurately describe how close your SAT score is to the average Westhill score?
establish the range
establish the correlational coefficient
calculate the mean
calculate the standard deviation