AP psychology Fall Final – Flashcards

The failure of bystanders to give victims of automobile accidents needed assistance is sometimes explained as an instance of __________.

Which of the following is most characteristic of individuals with chronic schizophrenia?

Activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system results in ______.

A teenager would most probably draw on which of the following to recall her tenth birthday party?

Hunger and eating are primarily regulated by which of the following?

Leadership, job satisfaction, and employee motivation are all studied in which of the following psychological disciplines?

According to the ethical guidelines set by the American Psychological Association (APA), , which of the following is true of psychological research in which animals are the subjects?

Eleanor Gibson and her colleagues have used the visual cliff to measure an infant's ability to perceive _____.

Which of the following approaches to psychology emphasizes observable responses over inner experiences when accounting for behavior?

The release of those with mental disorders from mental hospitals for the purpose of treating them in their home communities is called ___________.

Which of the following best characterizes individuals diagnosed as having personality disorders?

The mean will be higher than the median in any distribution that ______.

Which of the following is typically cited as a characteristic of Autistic children?

The goal of rational-‐emotive behavioral therapy is to help clients _____.

A person is asked to listen to a series of tones presented in pairs, and asked to say whether the tones in each pair are the same or different in pitch. In this situation the experimenter is most likely measuring the individual's _______.

A somatoform disorder is best described as an illness that _______.

Which of the following is most useful in understanding an employer's interpretation of an employee's poor performance?

The tendency of most people to identify a three-‐sided figure as a triangle, even when one of its sides is incomplete, is the result of a perceptual process known as _________.

The place in the retina where the optic nerve exits to the brain is called the ______.

In an experiment, which of the following variables refers to the outcome that is measured by the experimenter?

When a list of words is learned in order, the words most likely to be forgotten are those that are _______.

According to research on attraction, people are most likely to be attracted to others who are ________.

Intense artificial light is most successfully used as therapy for _______.

Which of the following research methods is being used if the same subjects are tested at two, four, and six years of age?

The most distinctive characteristic of the experimental method is that it ______.

although Paul seems bright and capable to his parents and friends, he has been failing in school. Paul agrees to speck with a psychologist, who suggest his problems stem from internal processes such as unrealistic expectations and negative thinking. the psychologist's view is typical of which of the following models of behavior.

When participants in dichotic listening experiments are repeating aloud a message presented in one ear, they are most likely to notice information on the unattended channel if that channel _______.

Contemporary definitions of abnormal behavior typically characterize such behavior as all of the following EXCEPT

Behavior therapists emphasize which of the following in their treatment of clients?

Which of the following areas of the body has the largest number of sensory neurons?

When a pair of lights flashing in quick succession seems to an observer to be one light moving from place to place, the effect is referred to as _______.

The first area of psychology to be studied as a science is known as ________.

The change in curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances is called ______.

Which of the following behavior-‐therapy techniques is typically used to reduce fear of heights?

Painkilling substances produced by the brain are known as ______.

Receptors that are especially important for helping a person maintain balance are located in the _______.

if a man is a heavy smoker is given an electric shock every time he takes a puff on a cigarette, which of the following behavior-‐modification techniques is being used?

Distrust of others is symptomatic of _________.

Which of the following allows the examination of living brain tissue visually without performing surgery?