Test your basic knowledge |

AP Psychology

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. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area






2. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)






3. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues






4. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results






5. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships






6. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






7. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.






8. Emotional intelligence






9. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival






10. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.






11. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved






12. Carries impulses from the eye to the brain






13. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


14. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur






15. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






16. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again






17. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register






18. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism






19. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation






20. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.






21. Depth cues that are based on one eye






22. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups






23. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.






24. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






25. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary






26. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life






27. Test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area






28. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages






29. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.






30. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)






31. 17th century English philosopher. Wrote that the mind was a 'blank slate' or 'tabula rasa'; that is - people are born without innate ideas. We are completely shaped by our environment .






32. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait






33. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes






34. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.






35. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age






36. The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.






37. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met






38. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.






39. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -






40. Dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while it is happening






41. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






42. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.






43. Sharpness of vision






44. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world






45. 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.






46. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.






47. Level of consciousness that is outside awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought into conscious awareness






48. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need






49. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.






50. Any stimulus or event that is naturally painful or unpleasant to an organism