AP Psychology Review

Which defense mechanism allows you to come up with a beneficial result from something bad?

How variables are measured or quantified is the...

____________ is when your performance improves with people around.

Which defense mechanism allows you to redirect your feelings toward another?

What is the smallest amount of stimulus we can perceive 50% of the time?

T/F: According to APA Guidelines, you do not need to debrief your participants for a study.

A choice when one decision has attractive and unattractive features...

Which is not an example of an extrinsic motivation?

Which dream theory contains manifest content (plot) vs. latent content (underlying meaning)?

Which psychological professional is allowed to prescribe medicine to patients?

What is the period where most kids acquire language during the first few years of life?

What concept did Whorf theorize that language we use might control and limit our thinking?

A preference for members of one's own group is...

Which stage of sleep do sleep spindles occur in?

What is a problem solving rule of thumb?

What controls hunger, thirst, body temperature, and sexual arousal?

What occurs when you are unable to see new use for an object?

The most important concept illustrated in the visual cliff study is...

This connects the two brain hemispheres; when cut can help contain epileptic seizures.

Which choice is the best definition for encoding memory?

Which of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Reasoning is based on a reward/punishment?

Which brain lobe controls touch and taste?

T/F: A correlational study can measure cause and effect.

Which interference is when new information blocks out old information?

"Body wants to maintain a certain body weight and to avoid huge fluctuations in weight change."

Who is most associated with the behaviorist perspective of psychology?

Which drug is used to treat unipolar depression?

What says that our body prioritizes high priority pain messages over lower ones?

What type of drug is marijuana an example of?

Who is your favorite AP Psychology teacher?

_____ is the order of words in language (part of grammar).

What tells us how our body is oriented?

Which study used roles that lead to deindividualization?

Which of Piaget's stages of development is when the child has developed object permanence?

When you emphasize dispositional (character) factors over situational factors is...

What type of learning involves modeling, where people watch and mimic the behavior of others?

What percentage falls within one standard deviation above and below the mean on a bell curve?

Which psychological perspective stresses individual choice and free will?

What is the 25 hour cycle that our body is on and can be disrupted by jet lag?

What is the method of breaking information into smaller parts to remember?

Which type of personality is hard driving, competitive, and impatient?

This parenting style rules/punishes consistently and explains the rationale behind the rules.

What type of amnesia results in a person who can't remember parts since the accident?

What type of memory are facts and figures?

Based on Harlow's attachment study, the monkeys preferred the _____ mother.

Which of the following is NOT one of the laws of attraction?

Which anxiety disorder is when a person has obsessions that drive compulsions?

Which anxiety disorder is when a person has low level anxiety and experiences panic attacks?

Which treatment uses an electric current and causes a brief seizure?

Which order of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is correct?

_____ Intelligence declines with age and is associated with problem solving and creativity.

Which type of study measures the ralationship between two variables?

Which brain hemisphere specializes in language/speech?

What is the central part of the visual field that allows people to see clearly and distinctly?

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of schizophrenia?

This brain test measures brain activity by monitoring glucose.

Which behavior therapy involves 3 steps to gradually replace anxiety with relaxation?

What type of learning involves shaping - reinforing steps for each desired behavior?

Who is most associated with classical conditioning?

Which type of study measures responses among different ages/types of people?

Which of Freud's Psychodynamic Theory of Personality follows the reality principle/negotiates?

Which part of the eye works like a camera shutter to let in light?

Oversupply of this is linked to schizophrenia and undersupply of this is linked to Parkinson's.

__________ is the energy needed to fire a neuron (electrical spike).

Which drug treats bipolar depression?

Which drug treats schizophrenia?

Which personality disorder is when a person has little empathy and views the world as hostile?

Which psychological perspective is based on the unconscious part of mind?

What is the place on the retina where the optic nerve leaves and there are no rods or cones?

"Each person has equal chance of being in the experiment or control group" is...

What concept is this bell curve most related to?

Which type of test measures acumulated learning, such as an AP test?

When people act crazy in large crowds because they aren't individually accountable is...

Not being able to distinguish between similar stimuli is... (ex. Little Albert)

What is "thinking about thinking?"