SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
AP Psychology
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
psychology
,
ap
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.
Depressants (AKA sedative-hypnotics)
standard deviation
Babinski reflex
Panic Attack
2. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.
Collective Unconscious
Kenneth Clark
Anna O.
engineering psychologist
3. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
aversive conditioning
endocrine system
Harry Stack Sullivan
Rooting reflex
4. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons
efferent neuron nerve
phenotype
hindbrain
Functional fixedness
5. Perception below the threshold of awareness.
monocular cues
Attachment
Subliminal perception
Attitudes
6. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits
Dissociative identity disorder
engineering psychologist
polygenic inheritance
Placebo effect
7. Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying - 'Know thyself.'
preconscious
Concrete operational stage
Socrates
Shaping
8. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.
Concept
Syntax
Self-actualization
Aaron Beck
9. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning
Classical Conditioning
neuroscience
median
(cerebral) cortex
10. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.
opponent-process theory of emotion
Latent Content
Edward Bradford Titchener
acetylcholine (ACh)
11. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
bulimia nervosa
genetic mapping
forebrain
Assimilation
12. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.
polarization
Placebo effect
Homeostasis
Photoreceptors
13. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial
axon terminal
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Thanatology
Elaboration Likelihood Model
14. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.
Family therapy
Agoraphobia
action potential
Egocentrism
15. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.
maintenance rehearsal
pineal gland
Unconscious
B.F. Skinner
16. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat
Edward Thorndike
menopause
Interpersonal Attraction
John B Watson
17. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution
Tolerance
range
Concept
Conflict
18. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.
cognitive psychology
Mary Ainsworth
David Rosenhan
Trichromats
19. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
psychiatrist
Sociobiology
introspection
20. Neo-Freudian - psychodynamic; criticized Freud - stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses - rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts - neurotic trends; concept of 'basic anxiety'
working memory
Karen Horney
Psychophysics
Learned Helplessness
21. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Subgoal analysis
Daniel Goleman
operational definition
Psychodynamically
22. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.
Brightness
fovea
Genital Stage
Darley & Latane
23. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp
acetylcholine (ACh)
EEG (electroencephalogram)
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
24. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses
Conflict
Consciousness
decay
Vulnerability
25. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes
unconscious
heritability
Grasping reflex
Systematic desensitization
26. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat
Anorexia Nervosa
Fixed-ratio Schedule
pons
sports psychologist
27. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance
chunks
random sample
dendrites
Developmental Psychology
28. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
pons
Metal retardation
habituation
Gestalt psychology
29. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
set point
Zajonc & Markus
Harry Stack Sullivan
dopamine
30. Process by which a conditioned response becomes associated with a stimulus that is similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus
Residual type of schizophrenia
Stanley Milgram
empiricism
Stimulus Generalization
31. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility
school psychologist
natural selection
monism
Darley & Latane
32. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.
Stimulant
Conformity
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
educational psychologist
33. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.
Gazzaniga or Sperry
Fixation
Syntax
Stimulant
34. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
Means-ends analysis
Denial
double-blind procedure
cognitive-appraisal theory of emotion
35. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion
Self
Ekman & Friesen
forebrain
pitch
36. A basic unit of meaning in a language.
Von Restorff effect
behavior
Withdrawal Symptoms
Morpheme
37. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes
scientific method
demand characteristics
Metal retardation
Convergent thinking
38. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors
evolutionary psychology
postconventional level of moral development
Operant Conditioning
Stressor
39. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions
Health psychology
Coping
David Weschler
Schema
40. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants
Abnormal psychology
pitch
crystallized intelligence
Self-fulfilling prophecy
41. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia
Conditioned Response
Social Psychology
monocular cues
dopamine
42. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score
Sucking reflex
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
frequency distribution
Egocentrism
43. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
Manifest Content
EEG (electroencephalogram)
adrenal glands
44. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.
Stimulant
Personality
postconventional level of moral development
Reactance
45. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual
population
Visual cortex
Stress
Aversive counterconditioning
46. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain
Stress
Cognitive Psychology
implicit memory
convolutions
47. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion
Social Interest
debriefing
Robert Sternberg
Approach-avoidance conflict
48. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
sympathetic nervous system
Gender stereotype
Teratogen
Dissociative amnesia
49. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).
Demand characteristics
action potential
Genital Stage
all-or-none principle
50. Personality disorder characterized by egocentricity - and behavior that is irresponsible and that violates the rights of other people - a lack of guilt feelings - an inability to understand other people and a lack of fear of punishment.
psychometrician
limbic system
Antisocial personality disorder
Behavior therapy