AP Psych Practice Questions: Final and Practice Tests – Flashcards

Learned taste aversions generally result from _______.

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured." This belief is best explained by _______.

Infants teach their parents to hold them a lot by crying whenever they are put down. When they are picked up, the babies stop crying. The parents are learning to pick up their babies via _______.

The occipital lobes contain _______.

The Big Five model suggests that people can be rated along the dimensions of consciousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and extraversion. This theory is associated with which of the following?

On individual intelligence tests such as the Stanford Binet and Wechsler scales, an IQ of 10 indicates that the test taker _______.

The over justification effect has led some psychologists to question the value of _______.

Which part of the brain is most important in regulating an animal's sex drive?

The human brain differs from the brains of other animals by the relative amount of brain mass devoted to which of the following?

Which of the following is the best example of basic research?

Paul stared out the window as the train he was on raced through the countryside. He noticed that the telephone poles near the tracks seemed to fly by while the houses in the distance seemed to move slowly. This apparent different in speed of movement in known as _______.

Which of the following best describes the graph above?

According to Alder, firstborn children are more likely than subsequent children in a family to be _______.

Dan read a list of 30 vocabulary words only once. If he is typical and shows the serial position effect, we would expect that the words he remembers two days later are _______.

Species-specific behaviors that cannot be explained as a result of social learning or conditioning, such as Monarch butterflies flying to Mexico to mate, are called _______.

A famous character in a Shakespearean play keeps washing her hands to get the clean of blood that is no longer on them. The repeated washing of her hands is _______.

During cooperative learning, all of the students in Group A were initially opposed to the death penalty, whereas two of the students in Group B were in favor of the penalty and two were opposed. According to research, after an intense discussion within each group about capital punishment, we would expect _______.

A classically conditioned response can best be eliminated by the presentation of _______.

Functionally, receptors in the retina of the eye differ most from receptors in the cochlea of the ear in the _______.

According to Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, _______.

A severely overweight rate would most likely result from the lesioning of the _______.

The heritability for traits of a cloned population is _______.

Research revels that the most critical factor in Type A behavior associated with heart disease is _______.

Cognitivists claim that classical conditioning results from _______.

Loss of the ability to understand language results from loss of tissue in which of the following lobes?

When a 17-year-old student is failing at school, which society would most likely hold the parents accountable?

Receptors that response to gravity and keep you informed of your body's location in space are located primarily in the _______.

Dr. Ramchandran found that his patients who brush their teeth after lunch has 1/20 the number of cavities in their teeth as those who didn't After interviewing the dentist, a local news writer reports that brushing teeth after lunch prevents cavities. Based on the dentist's research, which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following endocrine glands is NOT paired with a hormone that it produces? a. pineal--melatonin b. hypothalamus--thyroid-stimulating hormone c. thyroid--thyroxine d. adrenals--cortisol e. pancreas--glucagon

A special diet can prevent the expression of the trait for _______.

Emily scored at the 65th percentile on a standardized achievement test. This indicated which of the following? Her score was _______.

As a result of an accident, Abdul lost sight in his right eye. To judge the distance of vehicles when he is driving, Abdul is able to rely on cues of I. accommodation II. relative size III. retinal disparity

Today Susan took a pill for her allergy that raised her blood pressure, caused her heart to beat faster, and raised her body temperature. Now caught in traffic, she feels angry. Yesterday, when she took the pill, she was with her husband and felt amorous. This description exemplifies _______.

Which of the following reinforcement schedules results in maintained of behavior that is LEAST resistant to extinction?

Alpha waves are most clearly associated with _______.

The primary reason why we cannot taste sand or smell platinum is that _______.

An important difference between humanistic and psychoanalytic approaches is that humanistic psychologists believe in the importance of _______.

Wilhem Wundt and the structuralists studied questions still asked today primarily by _______.

What type of graph is the following?

A quasi-experiment cannot be considered a controlled experiment because _______.

Of the following, the strongest positive correlation would most likely be shown between

Of the following, which can establish a cause and effect relationship? I. controlled experiment II. quasi-experiment III. correlational research

A neuron without terminal buttons would be unable to _______.

The simplest behaviors _______.

Mr. Jenkins suffered a "stroke" as a result of a brain injury. Although he can still move the fingers on his right hand, he has lost sensation in these parts. Of the following, the site of damage to his brain is mostly likely in the _______.

Gunshot wounds, tumors, and strokes all result in _______.

Which of the following must be males?

The part of the brain most closely associated with maintaining balance and the coordination of complex sequences of movements is the _______.

Loss of ability of the brain to produce adequate levels of dopamine often leads to _______.

Which task is primarily a right cerebral hemisphere function in most people?

On its way to the cons and rods of the eye, light passes through the _______.

Neural impulses go directly to the cortez without passing through the thalamus from receptors in the _______.

Receptors for kinesthesis are located in the _______.

Conventional hearing aids may restore hearing by _______.

Your tendency to see the words "went" and "ties," rather than the word "twenties" when you look at T WENT TIES is best explained by the organizing principle of _______.

A landscape painting shows boasts on a lake in the foreground and mountains father away. Which cue would not contribute to your perception that the mountains are farther away than the boat?

When a fortune teller claims to have the ability to see what the person you will look like, the person is professing to possess the ability of _______.

During paradoxical sleep, muscles seem paralyzed and _______.

Monitoring by the hidden observer during hypnosis provides evidence for _______.

Of the following, which pair of psychoactive drugs shares the most similar effects on the brain?

John loves to fish. He puts his line in the water and leaves it there until he feels a tug. On what reinforcement schedule is he rewarded?

If the trainer conditions the pigeon to peck at a red circle and then only gives him a reward if he pecks at the green circle when both the green and red are present, the pigeon is demonstrating _______.

Latent learning is best described as _______.

Rats were more likely to learn an aversion to bright lights and noise with water if they were associated with electric shocks rather than with flavors or poisoned food. This illustrates _______.

Which of the following responses is to learned through operant conditioning?

Doug wrote a grocery list of 10 items, but leaves it at home. The list included in order: peas, corn, squash, onions, apples, pears, bananas, flour, milk, and eggs. If the law of primacy holds, which of the following is Doug most likely to remember when he gets to the store?

In the preceding example, which of the items would be recalled in Doug's short term memory immediately after writing the list?

According to the levels of processing theory of memory _______.

Dai was drunk, so his girlfriend convinced him to get out of his care, and she drove him home. Dani could only remember were his car was after drinking again the next morning. This phenomenon best illustrates _______.

Which of the following is holophrase one-year-old Amanda likely to say?

Imprinting is _______.

Which of the following topics would a social biologist be most interested in studying?

According to the Yerkes-Dodson model, when facing a very difficult challenge, which level of arousal would probably lead to the best outcome?

Which of the following factors stimulate us to eat?

Terrence's parents were excited by his recent interest in reading science fiction novels. They bought him toy science fiction characters and praised him for reading the books. When they stopped rewarding him, he quit reading. This behavior best illustrates _______.

Which of the following most accurately reflects our current understanding of basic facial expressions?

Follicide stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormones are most closely associated with which of the following motivated behaviors?

What is the response pattern of securely attacked children in the Strange Situation when their mothers return?

The rooting reflect is a neonate's tendency to _______.

According to social learning theory, gender identity is I. a process that occurs when young children unconsciously identify with the same-sex parent II. a result of begin positively reinforced for acting in ways that conform to male and females roles III. learned through observing and imitating role models like their parents

Which of the following is a good example of a Jungian archetype?

Nomothetic studies cannot provide information about _______.

Bertha is tall, thin, and frail. She enjoys studying and reading science fiction, and she prefers to be alone rather than in a large group. According to Sheldon's somatotype theory of personality, she is _______.

Mother Teresa's altruism showed in everything she did. According to Allport's trait there, her altruism was

Alder would not have agreed with the importance of which of the following ideas?

A standardization sample for developing a test _______.

If Mrs. Debevec compared the scores of students on the odd numbered questions on the test with their scores for the even numbered questions, she would be attempting to determine if the test had _______.

According to Sternberg, which of the following types of intelligence in his tribrachic theory are measured by a standard IQ? I. analytic II. practical III. creative

A comparison of the scores of blacks and whites rereleased what?

Hani was unable to tell the difference between right and wrong. Which of the following definitions of abnormal behavior is described in this example?

Which of the following is classified as an anxiety disorder in DSM-5?

Jenna is telling her therapist about the dream she had last night, and her therapist begins to interpret it for her. Which approach to psychotherapy does Jenna's therapist probably represent?

All of the following are potential benefits of group therapy except _______.

Drew's depression seems an outgrowth of his belief that everyone should like him. If his therapist were the utilize REBT, how might he proceed in treating Drew's depression?

Andre suffers from mood swings, alternatively from wild episodes of euphoria and spending sprees to motionless staring and hopelessness. A drug to treat his condition is _______.

Mr. Moffatt overheard another teacher describe one of his students as lazy and unmotivated. After hearing this, he began to see exactly what that teacher had noted. What might account for this phenomenon?

The effect of one confederate selecting a different line from the others in the Asch conformity test was _______.

In a jigsaw classroom, _______.

Donald believes himself to be a patriotic citizen, but he also does not believe in attacking countries that are technologically no match for the U.S. If drafted, distance theory predicts that Donald would _______.

A charity sends you some cards, and you feel that you should send them a small contribution. This feeling comes from the persuasion technique called

Although a man watched in horror as his wife and children were killed by a speeding truck, he has no memory of the event and gets upset when people tell him he must remember. The man is most likely suffering from _______.

The part of the neuron that directs synthesis of neurotransmitters and proteins is the _______.

Carlos could consistently differentiate the not middle C on the violin from the middle C on the piano because of the difference in _______.

Lucille suffered a stroke last week and cannot recognize her children by looking at them. Of the following structures, her brain lesion is most likely in the _______.

In general, the best presentation time between the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus to produce classical conditioning is _______.

Which of the following is generally considered a disadvantage of longitudinal developmental research? I. It is extremely costly II. Members of the original study may drop out III. The cohort effect

Which best represents the path of an impulse over a reflex arc?

Mr. Gordon suffered damage to the back of his right frontal lobe. As a result, he is unable to

In time-out, a disruptive child who wants to stay with his or her class is removed from the classroom. This exemplifies _______.

According to activation-synthesis theory, _______.

According to the opponent-process theory of emotions, _______.

Abnormal behavior can be defined as maladaptive behavior according to _______.

The positions on the basilar membrane at which waves reach their peak depends on the frequency of a tone, according to which theory?

The left cerebral hemisphere is specialized for which of the following functions?

The contingency model explains classical conditioning from which of the following perspectives?

All people have essentially the same set of traits, differing only in term of the extent to which they show each trait, according to which of the following personality theories?

After Tamika complained to her mother about how little she has, they went to volunteer at a soup kitchen. Afterwards, Tamika told her mother how happy she is that they can afford to buy food. Her increased perception that she is happy is best explained by applying which of the following theories?

Standardized tests are _______.

The most common somatic nervous system neurotransmitter to cause muscle contraction is _______.

Nearsightedness results from _______.

All of the following are characteristic of physiological arousal except _______.

Mechanical energy is transduced to electrochemical energy by _______.

Although many studies regarding the effects of a particular herb on memory have been conducted, results of any one study have been non conclusive. An overall conclusion might be reached by performing _______.

EEGs that consist primarily of alpha and beta waves are characteristic of _______.

Which of the following drugs is classified as a stimulant?