AP Psychology- Final Exam Review

Question 1

Which approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy?

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eclectic

Question 2

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

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Chunking

Question 3

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

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Feel-good, do-good Phenomenon

Question 4

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

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Late Adulthood (late 60s and up)

Question 5

False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders are...

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delusions

Question 6

Crediting primarily someone's disposition to explain their behavior is due to...

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Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 7

A robin is a ______ of bird.

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Prototype

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT a projective test?

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Question 9

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

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Modeling

Question 10

An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions is known as...

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Question 11

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

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Chromosomes

Question 12

Which of the following in NOT a "Big Five" personality trait?

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None of the Above

Question 13

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

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Sensorimotor

Question 14

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...

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Behavior and Mental Processes

Question 15

Which observation technique studies one person in depth in the hope of showing universal ideas?

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Case Study

Question 16

True or False: Aerobic exercise may alleviate depression and anxiety.

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True

Question 17

The model below depicts Freud's idea of...

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Mind Structure

Question 18

Which neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?

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Acetylcholine (ACh)

Question 19

Asch's experiments exhibit what psychological concept?

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Conformity

Question 20

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

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Barbiturates

Question 21

Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others is known as...

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Social Facilitation

Question 22

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

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Spontaneous Recovery

Question 23

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

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Linguistic Determinism

Question 24

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

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Morpheme

Question 25

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

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Cannon-Bard

Question 26

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

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Latency

Question 27

Client-centered therapy falls under which perspective?

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Humanistic

Question 28

What is known as the "Aha!" moment?

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Insight

Question 29

The diagram below depicts which theory of emotion?

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James-Lange

Question 30

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

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Collectivist

Question 31

What is the set of expected behaviors for males and for females?

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Gender Role

Question 32

Which perspective emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people?

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Humanistic

Question 33

What idea is concerned with all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves: 'Who am I?'

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Self-Concept

Question 34

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

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Misinformation Effect

Question 35

Which concept helps explain many of our superstitious beliefs?

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Illusory Correlation

Question 36

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

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Manifest Content and Latent Content

Question 37

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

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Hippocampus

Question 38

The picture below is an example of what concept?

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Proximity

Question 39

According to Kohlberg, one obeys either to avoid punishment or gain rewards during which stage?

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Preconventional

Question 40

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

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Both B and C

Question 41

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

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Top-down processing

Question 42

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

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False Consensus Effect

Question 43

Which of the following are structures of the limbic system?

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Amygdala/Hypothalamus

Question 44

What illusion does the phi phenomenon create?

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Movement

Question 45

True or False: Depression is usually unaffected by stressful life events.

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False

Question 46

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

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Dendrite

Question 47

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

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Repression

Question 48

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

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Alpha

Question 49

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

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Relative Deprivation

Question 50

Milgram's experiments had 'shocking' results of very high levels of...

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Obedience

Question 51

The perception that one controls one's own fate is know as...

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Internal Locus of Control

Question 52

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is known as...

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Personality

Question 53

What is the ability of produce novel and valuable ideas?

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Creativity

Question 54

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

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Red/Green, Yellow/Blue, White/Black

Question 55

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

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Type A

Question 56

Which part of the ear contains the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?

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Middle Ear

Question 57

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

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Zygote

Question 58

Which study compares people of different ages?

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Cross-Sectional Study

Question 59

The painting below purposely confuses figure and ground using what?

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Interposition

Question 60

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

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Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Question 61

A revoked driver's license is an example of what?

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Negative Punishment

Question 62

A person limited in mental ability but has an exceptional specific skill has...

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Savant Syndrome

Question 63

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

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Fovea

Question 64

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

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Circadian Rhythm

AP Psychology- Final Exam Review

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AP Psychology- Final Exam Review

Questions 79