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. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
2. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Trichromatic theory
shaping
Moro reflex
3. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes
school psychologist
Working through
genetic mapping
Reflex
4. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane
action potential
Psychoactive Drug
gene
Clark Hull
5. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.
Dependence
Wolpe
Learned helplessness
prenatal development
6. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment
Learning
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
Carl Jung
retroactive interference
7. An explanation of behavior that emphasizes the entirety of life rather than individual components of behavior and focuses on human dignity - individual choice - and self-worth
antagonist
Humanistic theory
Normal curve
Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
8. Small area of retina where image is focused
Visual cortex
fovea
Vasocongestion
preconventional level of moral development
9. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill
Alfred Binet
Conformity
Mary Ainsworth
zone of proximal development
10. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Anna O.
Stimulus Discrimination
Harry Stack Sullivan
structuralism
11. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)
psychoanalyst
parietal lobes
William Sheldon
mean
12. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
chunks
ethics
cones
Counterconditioning
13. Perspective that emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual and the idea that humans have free will
thyroxine
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
agonist
humanistic psychology
14. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.
Major depressive disorder
Psychophysics
William James
Francis Galton
15. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
natural selection
hypnosis
industrial/organizational psychologist
Gender
16. Fixed - overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.
Psychotherapy
Shaping
Morality
Stereotypes
17. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature
medulla (also medulla oblongata)
Archetypes
Positive Reinforcement
Secondary Reinforcer
18. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.
Reasoning
motor neurons
humanistic psychology
motive
19. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students
Light
Morality
Robert Rosenthal
Grasping reflex
20. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').
Sex
set point
Conditioned Stimulus
Aristotle
21. Individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system; it has three functions: receive information - process it - send to rest of body
sensory memory
neuron
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Reaction Formation
22. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Abnormal psychology
memory span
Personality disorders
explicit memory
23. Intelligence; found that specific mental talents were highly correlated - concluded that all cognitive abilities showed a common core which he labeled 'g' (general ability)
retrograde amnesia
Cognitive Psychology
Extrinsic motivation
Charles Spearman
24. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer
association areas
Superego
Cognitive theories
aversive conditioning
25. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Stanley Milgram
pitch
Decentration
26. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
Conditioning
natural selection
industrial/organizational psychologist
Negative Reinforcement
27. The principle that those characteristics and behaviors that help organisms adapt - be fit - and survive will be passed on to successive generations - because flexible - fit individuals have a greater chance of reproduction
Self-efficacy
Adolescence
self-fulfilling prophecy
natural selection
28. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.
family studies
adaptation
polarization
Social Loafing
29. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad
Karl Wernicke
Ex Post Facto Design
Morality
Oedipus Complex
30. 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
Major depressive disorder
pons
Orgasm phase
Humanistic theory
31. 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
Assessment
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
Elaboration Likelihood Model
opponent-process theory of emotion
32. Division that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body; includes all sensory and motor neurons; divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
terminal buttons (axon terminals)
thyroid gland
peripheral nervous system
axon terminal
33. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
Carol Gilligan
Self-actualization
median
frequency distribution
34. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment
long-term memory
control group
Anal Stage
Validity
35. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware
psychoanalytic
hindbrain
Health psychology
procedural memory
36. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs
Walter B. Cannon
Konrad Lorenz
Learned Helplessness
Karl Wernicke
37. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects
Dissociative disorders
Secondary Sex Characteristics
William James
Approach-avoidance conflict
38. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire
cones
Conditioned Stimulus
excitatory neurotransmitter
Consciousness
39. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.
Group Polarization
Anxiety
unconscious
Heuristics
40. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons
psychometrician
Equity Theory
Social Cognition
dendrites
41. The repetition of an experiment to test the validity of its conclusion
Elizabeth Loftus
Equity Theory
replication
reticular formation (RF) (RES)
42. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
psychobiology
Experimental design
encoding specificity principle
Carol Gilligan
43. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Factor analysis
Longitudinal Study
instinct
Transference
44. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.
motivated forgetting
Phallic Stage
cohort effect
Standardization
45. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall
Regression
Anna O.
schema
Signal Detection Theory
46. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample
Stimulant
John B Watson
standard deviation
Absolute threshold
47. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state
relative refractory period
nature-nurture controversy
Oedipus Complex
Cross-sectional study
48. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks
Schema
procedural memory
Conservation
Convergent thinking
49. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli
Bulimia Nervosa
Raymond Cattell
self-actualization
Stimulus Discrimination
50. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior
sociocultural psychology
primacy effect
Mediation
Mainstreaming