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. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond






2. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence






3. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative






4. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent






5. Shows brain activity at higher reolution than PET scan when changes in oxygen concentration in neurons alters its magnetic qualities






6. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)






7. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message






8. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.






9. Nerve cell that transmits messages between sensory and motor neurons






10. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact






11. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.






12. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe






13. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.






14. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger






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






16. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.






17. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses






18. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it






19. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster






20. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event






21. 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






22. Released by thyroid; hormone that regulates the body's metabolism; OVERACTIVE-over-excitability - insomnia - reduced attention span - fatigue - snap decisions - reduced concentration (hyperthyroidism); UNDERACTIVE-desire to sleep - constantly tired -






23. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -






24. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life






25. Pioneer in Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - focuses on altering client's patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive behavior and emotions






26. The fourth phase of the sexual response cycle - following orgasm - during which the body returns to its resting - or normal state






27. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable






28. The first of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development (covering roughly the first 2 years of life) - during which the child develops some motoer coordination skills and a memory for past events






29. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research






30. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.






31. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.






32. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.






33. Inability to understand or use language






34. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain






35. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory






36. 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


37. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory






38. 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






39. Activation of the central nervous system - the autonomic nervous system - and the muscles and glands






40. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits






41. Piaget's thrid stage of cognitive development (lasting from approximately age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12) - during which the child develops the ability to understand constant factors in the environment - rules - and higher-order symbolic systems






42. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study






43. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits






44. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s






45. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness






46. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea






47. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.






48. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.






49. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear






50. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success