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AP PSY FINAL REVIEW
CRAM ALL THIS IN FOR AP PSYCH EXAM!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| is a fatty tissue that surrounds the axons of some neurons and helps speed the movement of the action potential (an electric charge) down the neuron. | Myelin |
| The "c" in the word cat is best described as a _____. ______ are the smallest units of sound in a language. | Phoneme |
| When first born, humans' dominant sense is ________. | Hearing |
| ____ involves a nearly constant low-level arousal of the autonomic nervous system. | GAD |
| The ______ _____ was popular at the turn of the twentieth century in Western Europe. | Psychoanalytic |
| Pascale would be best be classified as a ____ _____ due to his interest in children's processing strategies. | Cognitive Psychologist |
| ____________ _________ focus on the role of various societal factors in shaping people. | Sociocultural Psychologists |
| __________ _____________ treat clients or research psychological disorders or therapies | Clinical psychologists |
| ___________ ______________would reject the importance of mentalistic concepts like "processing" strategies. Personality psychologists focus on questions concerning the development of people's personalities. | Behaviorists |
| ______ is a test intended to show a person's potential to be a good civil rights attorney | Aptitude test |
| ______ is a test made of many items and is meant to demonstrate how quickly a person can answer questions | Speed test |
| _____ is a test that measures people's knowledge of a given area. | Achievement test |
| ____is a test that measures emotional intelligence | EQ |
| ___is a test that measures intelligence | IQ |
| Marva's children have come to associate the sound of a cary door slamming and their mother's screaming as __________ | Classical conditioning |
| The fact that the children now cringe when they hear any door slam is an example of | Generalization |
| your gf dumps you. "I knew you shouldn't have gone out with her," says ur best friend, who has never uttered this sentiment b4. ur friend's comment best illustrates | Hindsight bias |
| A low level of glucose in Sam's bloodstream is most likely to make him want to | Eat a meal. |
| What kind of personality theorist would be most interested in the results of the MMPI | Trait |
| Light enters the eye through an opening in the | Iris |
| In people, rods, unlike cones, | Have a lower absolute threshold for light. |
| What describes the phenomenon of like-minded groups taking more extreme positions than the individuals that comprise the group? | Group polarization |
| Julie is more alert in the morning and her brother Jack is more alert in the afternoon. this difference stems from a difference in the siblings' | Circadian rhythms |
| To treat Zoe's anorexia nervosa, her docots put her on an intravenous feeding tubes, tried to change her irrational belief that she was too fat, and discussed how her early family relationships may have contributed to her problems. this is example of.. | Eclectic |
| Counterconditioning lies at the heart of which therapeutic approach | Systematic desensitization |
| Which personality theory is criticized for having an unrealistically optimistic view of human nature? | Humanistic |
| Which of the following is least likely to contribute to prejudice | Superordinate goals |
| Which of the following is a key difference between the experimental method and naturalistic observation | Researchers can exercise greater control over experiments than in naturalistic observation. |
| According to humanistic psychologists, psychological disorder are most likely caused by | Unfulfilled needs |
| A fetus with the genotype XXY will most likely | Suffer from sterility as an adult. |
| Of the following, most children will develop which skill first? | Clap their hands |
| Antonia has a cat. The first time she sees a rabbit, she calls it a cat. Her mistake is due to the process of | Assimilation |
| Which of the following terms is most closely associated with creativity? | Divergent thinking |
| The somatic nervous system is part of the | Peripheral nervous system |
| Which part of the brain is the newest in an evolutionary sense | Cerebral cortex |
| Which of the following disorders responds best to cognitive behavioral therapy? | Major depressive disorder |
| Which structure is found in the inner ear | Basilar membrane |
| What type of psychologist would assert that a key motivation for people is the desire to spread their genetic material? | Evolutionary |
| After Suzy decided to go to the prom with Dylan, Max was unconsciously furious. Max then channeled all his energies into his artwork. Which defense mechanism is Max using? | Sublimation |
| Which of the following graphs best represents the relationship b/wn arousal and performance? | The graph with an upside down "U" ; or a hill. |
| Which of the following statistics provides the most information about how spread out a distribution of scores is | Variance |
| Because Jake, the team's starting, star center, is late to basketball practice, Coach Peterson sits him out for the first quarter of the next game. Jake is on time for the rest of season. Coach Peterson has used | Omission training. |
| Some contemporary intelligence researchers like Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg complain that schools focus too much on | Traditional subjects and methods. |
| Delusions of grandeur are most characteristic of | Paranoid Schizophrenia |
| Faye believes that victims of natural disasters are foolish because they should have developed better advance detection and warning systems. Faye is manifesting the | Just-world bias |
| Four-year-old Kate positions herself squarely in front of all the other kids to watch a magician. Piaget would attribute this to Kate's | Egocentrism |
| When a person's mind learns how to fix a problem, and it doesn't work, but doesn't know they forgot one part was missing is | Mental set |
| The brainstem is comprised | Hindbrain and midbrain |
| the limbic system plays an important role in | Regulating emotion |
| Whose work demonstrated that people often mistremember events due to misinformation and leading questions? | Elizabeth Loftus |
| Erikson's intiative versus guilt stage is most closely related to Freud's | Latency period |
| Daniel is a toddler who lags behind his peers in terms of speech development. He avoids eye contact with people and resists alterations to routine. Daniel is most likely to be diagnosed with | Autism |
| Approx. what percent of the population scores b/wn 70 and 130 on the WISC? | 95 |
| Librarian sets up a system where students get a prize for every five books they read over the summer, she is using | A fixed ratio schedule |
| The librarian is pleased that the # of books read has increased, but decreases in the fall. Psychologists would likely explain these findings with | The Overjustification effect |
| In order to prove a psychological theory, | it is impossible to prove a theory. |
| A girl likes a boy, but doesn't like his friends or his family. Her conflict would best be classified as | An approach-avoidance conflict |
| Ani believes that her attitudes and behavior play a central role in what happens to her. Such a belief is likely to be associated with | An internal locus of control |
| The fact that people's ears are located on opposite sides of their heads is most adaptive because it helps us | Identify the origin of a sound |
| Young Tina had never seen the space shuttle until her parents pointed out a pic of it ready to launch. When she next saw a pic of it flying, she had difficulty recognizing it. Which concept best explains this problem | Shape constancy |
| Petunia is HAPPY. she is OUTGOING AND FUNNY. Sal walks away with the opinion that she is a fun person, but she is just temporarily gleeful b/c she won the lottery. His opinion of her is best explained by | The fundamental attribution error |
| Edy personally gives our cookies that say "vote for Edy" on them as part of her campaign for school president. What reason is this approach that it might improve Edy's chances in the election? | Mere-exposure effect |
| Alyssa gives one group of ppl 99% fat free milk and the other 1% percent fat. What is she most likely testing? | Framing |
| Eli is just beginning to sit up. Assuming he is developing at a typical pace, how old is Eli? | 6 months |
| Harlow's monkey experiment illustrated | The danger of separating babies from their natural parents. |
| At what age is onset of schizophrenia most typical? | early 20s |
| Teacher decides to create a newly perfectionism scale on a HS psych class. Comes one month later to give the same thing to the same students, and correlates the two sets of results. What is he probably doing? | Measuring the test's reliability |
| Which psychologist is known is for his pioneering work on modeling and the relationship between violent television and aggression? | Albert Bandura |
| Teaching someone step by step to do something, and increasing that skill to different areas is | shaping |
| What type of # will tell Matt whether or not there is a significant difference between how the boys and girls scored? | P value |
| Matt's research design could best be classifed (random sampling) as a(n) | Ex post facto study |
| What was the pop..in Matt's study? (100 students from a certain HS in a state). | Students at that same High school |
| Which part of the brain was thought to play the most important role int eh Cannon-Bard theory of emotion? | Thalamus |
| One month before finals, person makes schedule and begins to review his notes. 2 weeks b4 exam, they study for hours each day to prepare. After the finals, he comes down with flu. What theories best explains this chain of events? | Selye's general adaptation syndrome |
| Learned helplessness is most likely to be directly related to | An external locus of control |
| Which of the following are found in Jung's collective unconscious? | Archetypes |
| What color are the shortest electromagnetic waves humans can wee | Violet |
| People who are able to be hypnotized easily are likely to score high on which of the following dimensions of the big five personality traits? | Openness |
| Due to the brain dmg, 10yr girl goes thru surugery to remove nearly the entire RIGHT hemisphere of her brain.. Which of the observation the day after the operation best illustrates the brain's plasticity? | Genna was able to speak. |
| which of the following is the strongest piece of evidence for the idea the animals are capable of developing and using a sophisticated language | Apes have been able to use the words they know to express novel concepts |
| Research shown that people reading job dscription w/ male pronouns (he his) is more likely to think person as a male than ppl reading genderneutral lang (he or she) this finding is most closely linked to | The linguistic relativity hypothesis. |
| In the nature vs. nurture debate, nature is most closely associated w/ | Temperament |
| If the College Board neglected to put any questions that had to do w/ neuroscience on the AP psych exam one year, the test would lack | Content Validity |
| Which best summarizes the results of Tolman's latent learning experiment | The rats that never received reinforcement completed the maze fastest. |
| Teacher gives test to class of 25 students. All but three score bw/n 82 and 94. The other 3 make 47, 55, and 62. These scores are potential | Outliers |
| What area of psychology focuses on the study of subjective well-being, optimism, and happiness? | Positive psychology |
| person doing good in a class and the exam goes to college, what will they most likely do | Sign up for an upper-level undergraduate course in which he will have to work hard succeed and will learn new things. |
| Which of the following models of personality is the least deterministic? | Humanistic |
| Vance's therapist believes Vance is psychotic. From which the following medications would he most likely believe Vance would benefit | Neuroleptics |
| Sperling's partial report technique was designed to test the | Capacity of sensory memory. |
| Which of the following has been linked to a deficit dopamine | Parkinson's disease. |
| Runners picking up their pace when another runner came into view, this finding illustrates the phenomenon of | Social facilitation |
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