Practice Test #1 AP Psych Barron’s
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Neural transmission is often described as an electrochemical process. Which of the following is most directly involved in the electrical aspect?
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Myelin
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The \"c\" word in the word cat is best described as a..
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phoneme
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When first born, human's dominant sense is...
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hearing
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Ryan suffers from nearly constant, low-level arousal of the autonomic nervous system. Ryan is most likely to be classified as suffering from..
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GAD
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Which psychological perspective was most popular at the turn of the twentieth century in Western Europe?
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psychoanalytical
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Pascale is interested in the processing strategies children use to learn new information. Pascale would best be classified as what type of psychologist?
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Cognitive
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Cyan has come up with a test to identify people with the potential to be great civil rights lawyers. Such a test would be classified as a...
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Aptitude test
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The learning process described would best be labeled...
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classical conditioning
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The fact that the children now cringe when they hear any car door slam is an example of..
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generalization
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Your girlfriend dumps you. \"I knew you shouldn't have gone out with her,\" says your best friend, who has never uttered this sentiment before. Your friend's comment best illustrates...
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hindsight bias
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A low level of glucose in Sam's bloodstream is most likely to make him want to...
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eat a meal
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What kind of personality theorist would be most interested in the results of the MMPI?
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trait
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Light enters the eye through an opening in the...
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iris
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In people, rods, unlike cones..
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have a lower absolute threshold for light
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Which term describes the phenomenon of like-minded groups taking more extreme positions than the individuals that comprise the group?
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Group polarization
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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'
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circadian rhythms
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To treat Zoe's anorexia, her doctors put her on the 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 current problems. This approach would best be classified as...
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eclectic
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Counterconditioning lies at the heart of which therapeutic approach?
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Systematic desensitization
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Which personality theory is criticized for having an unrealistically optimistic view of human nature?
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Humanistic
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Which of the following is least likely to contribute to prejudice?
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Superordinate goals
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Which of the following is a key difference between the experimental method and naturalistic observation?
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Researchers can exercise greater control over experiments than naturalistic observation
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According to humanistic psychologists, psychological disorders are most likely caused by...
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unfulfilled needs
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A fetus with the genotype XXY will most likely..
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suffer from sterility as an adult
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Of the following, most children will develop which skill first?
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clap their hands
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Antonia has a cat. The first time she sees a rabbit, she calls it a cat. Her mistake is due to the process of...
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Assimilation
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Which of the following terms is most closely associated with creativity?
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divergent thinking
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The somatic nervous system is part of the
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peripheral nervous system
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Which part of the brain is the newest in an evolutionary sense?
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Cerebral cortex
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Which of the following disorders responds best to cognitive behavioral therapy?
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Major depressive disorder
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Which structure is found in the inner ear?
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Auditory canal
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What type of psychologist would assert that a key motivation for people is the desire to spread their genetic material?
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Evolutionary
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After Suzy decided to go to the prom with Dylan, Max was unconsciously furious. Max then channeled all his energies into artwork. Which defense mechanism is Max using?
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sublimation
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Which of the following graphs best represents the relationship between arousal and performance?
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Upside down U
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Which of the following statistics provides the most information about how to spread out a distribution of scores is?
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Variance
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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 the season. Coach peterson has used...
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omission training
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Some contemporary intelligence researchers like Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg complain that schools focus too much on..
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traditional subjects and methods
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Delusions of grandeur are most characteristic of..
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paranoid schizophrenia
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Faye believes that victims of natural disasters are foolish because they should have developed better advance detection and warning systems. Faye is manifesting the...
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just world bias
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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...
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egocentrism
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Jamie has trouble with her printer, but she has learned that if she turns it off for a minute and restarts her computer, it usually starts working again. Last Thursday, the printer ran out of paper. Jamie didn't notice and after turning the computer on and off a few times, became very frustrated. Jamie's printer problems on Thursday are most clearly a result of..
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mental set
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The brainstem is comprised of the
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hindbrain and midbrain
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The limbic system plays an important role in
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regulating emotion
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In a number of experiments, Elizabeth Loftus has shown that the wording of a question can affect participants' recall of an incident. These studies best illustrate...
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the reconstructive nature of memory
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Erikson's initiative versus guilt stage is most closely related to Freud's
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Phallic stage
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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...
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autism
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Approximately what percent of the population scores between 70 and 130 on the WISC?
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95
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The librarian is using
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a fixed ratio schedule
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The librarian is pleased to fine that students report reading more books over the summer than ever before. However, the number of books borrowed from the library decreases in the fall. Psychologists would likely explain these findings with..
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the over justification effect
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In order to prove a psychological theory,
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it is impossible to prove a theory
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Lupe has been dating Craig for a few months. She's attracted to him and has fun with him, but she can't stand his friends or his family. Lupe's conflict would best be classified as..
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an approach avoidance conflict
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Ani believes that her attitude and behavior play a central role in what happens to her. Such a belief is likely to be associated with..
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an internal locus of control.
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The fact that people's ears are located on opposite sides of their heads is most adaptive because it helps us
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identify the origin of a sound
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Young Tina had never seen the space shuttle until her parents pointed out a picture of it ready to launch. When she next saw a picture of it flying, she had difficulty recognizing it. Which concept best explains the problem?
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Size constancy
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Sal meets Petunia for the first time. She is outgoing and funny. He walks away with the opinion that petunia is a fun person, whereas in actuality Petunia is temporarily gleeful because she just won the lottery. Sal's opinion that petunia is funny is best explained by..
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the fundamental attribution error
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As part of her campaign for school President, Edy personally gives out cookies that say \"Vote for Edy\" on them. Which of the following is one reason that this approach might improve Edy's chances in the election?
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Mere exposure effect
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Alyssa presents one group of shoppers with an advertisement for milk that is 99% fat free and another group with an advertisement for milk that is 1% fat. What is alyssa most likely testing?
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Framing
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Eli is just beginning to sit up. Assuming he is developing at a typical pace, how old is Eli?
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6 months
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Harlow's monkey experiment illustrated
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the importance of physical contact to development.
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At what age is the onset of schizophrenia most typical?
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early 20s
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Jupiter pilots his newly created perfectionism scale on a high school psychology class. He returns one month later to administer the same test to the same students, and then correlates the two sets of results. What is jupiter probably doing?
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Measuring the tests reliability
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Albert Bandura's work evidenced that children who witnessed aggressive behavior on the part of adults would be likely to imitate the aggressive behavior later on. This phenomenon best illustrates...
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modeling
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Coach Perry is training Lana to be the kindergarten soccer team's goalie. Coach Perry starts by rolling the ball to Lana slowly so she can stop it; he gradually begins to roll the ball faster and to different parts of the goal, all the while praising her successful attempts. The technique Coach Perry is using is called..
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shaping
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What type of number will tell Matt whether or not there is a significant difference between how the boys and girls scored?
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Mean
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Matt's research would best be classified as an
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ex post facto study
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what was the population in Matt's study?
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students at Northeastern High School
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Which part of the brain was thought to play the most important role in the Cannon Bard theory of emotion?
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Thalamus
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One month before finals, Conrad makes a study schedule and begins to review his notes. Two weeks before finals, Conrad is studying for hours each day to prepare. Right after finals at the start of summer vacation, Conrad comes down with the flu. Which of the following theories best explains his chain of events?
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Selye's general adaptation syndrome
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Learned helplessness is most likely to be directly related to
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an external locus of control
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Which of the following are found in Jung's collective unconscious?
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archetypes
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What color are the shortest electromagnetic waves humans can see?
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violet
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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?
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Openness
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Due to brain damage, 10 year old Genna underwent surgery to remove nearly the entire right hemisphere of her brain. Which of the following observations the day after the operation best illustrates the brain's plasticity?
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Genna was unable to move her left hand.
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Which of the following is the strongest piece of evidence for the idea that animals are capable of developing and using a sophisticated language?
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Apes have been able to use the words they know to express novel concepts.
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Research has shown that people who read a job description written only with male pronouns are more likely to think of an employee as male than people who read a description that uses gender neutral language. This finding is most closely linked to
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the linguistic relativity hypothesis
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In the nature versus nurture debate, nature is most closely associated with
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temperament
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If the college board neglected to put any questions that had to do with neuroscience on the AP Psychology exam one year, the test would lack
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content validity
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Which best summarizes the results of Tolman's latent learning experiment
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the rats that never received reinforcement completed the maze the fastest
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Mr Maji gives a test to his class of 25 students. All but 3 students score between 82 and 94. The other three students score 47, 55 and 62. These scores are potential
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outliers
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What area of psychology focuses on the study of subjective well being, optimism and happiness?
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positive psychology
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After taking AP psych and doing well in the class and on the exam, Donald goes to college. If Donald is interested in psychology and his high achievement motivation, as a first year student, he is most likely to
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sign up for an upper level undergraduate course in which he will have to work hard to succeed and will learn new things
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Which of the following models of personality is the least deterministic?
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humanistic
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Vance's therapist believes Vance is psychotic. From which of the following medications would be most likely believe Vance would benefit?
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Neuroleptics
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Sperling's partial report technique was designed to test the
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capacity of sensory memory
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Which of the following has been linked to a deficit of dopamine?
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Parkinson's disease
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Runers in a park were found to pick up their face when another runner came into view; this finding illustrates the phenomenon of
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Social facilitation
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The Rosenhan study of mental institutions showed that
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confirmation bias may influence clinician's views and treatments of mental patients.
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An American teenager's prototype of a char is most likely to include
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four legs and a seat
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according to Kohlberg, in order to reason at the post conventional level, people must
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be able to take another person's perspective
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The incidence of schizophrenia in the population is closest to
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1 in 100
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Stephanie seems to suffer from histrionic personality disorder. On which of the axes of the DSM would this be noted?
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Axis II
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Tired after a long, hard day at school, Cyrus decides to take a nap. An hour later, his Dad wakes him to let him know it's time for dinner. Cyrus feels worse than when he went to bed and can hardly drag himself to the table. An EEG of Cyrus right before he was awoken would likely have shown a preponderance of
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delta waves
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En route to the brain, information front he two eyes' retinas crosses at the
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optic chiasm
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In studying for the AP Psychology exam, good advice would be to
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study from multiple sources
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A lesson from Janis's research on groupthink is that
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it is important for people to voice dissent
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Information from the optic nerve is initially processed in which part of the brain.
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thalamus
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Which theory of emotion are cognitive psychologists most likely to support?
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two factor theory
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Odette is nearing her 70th birthday. Over the last year, she suffered a loss of appetite and began to experience difficulty sleeping. She has lost interest in her favorite pastimes, gardening and bridge. Odette is most likely to be diagnosed as having
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major depressive disorder
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One cause of the deinstitutionalization of many psychiatric patients in the mid 1900s was
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the creation of new medications
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What part of Phineas Gage's brain was damaged by his accident while laying the railroad track>
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prefrontal cortex
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Approximately what percentage of participants in Milgram's obedience experiments thought they delivered the maximum amount of shock possible?
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60
