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. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility
Drug
hypnosis
Anorexia Nervosa
Raymond Cattell
2. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.
Fulfillment
Creativity
Psychodynamically
Attachment
3. Depth cues that are based on two eyes
Konrad Lorenz
parathormone
binocular cues
Brainstorming
4. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
insulin
autonomic nervous system
Conditioned Stimulus
Motivation
5. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell
autonomic nervous system
midbrain
temporal lobes
identical twins
6. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur
functionalism
Positive Reinforcement
Concept
kinesthesis
7. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.
Punishment
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
neurotransmitters
Group Polarization
8. Sharpness of vision
Groupthink
visual acuity
working memory
instinct
9. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
ethnocentrism
Bulimia Nervosa
Stimulus Generalization
Gender Schema Theory
10. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place
Psychoneuroimmunology
Means-ends analysis
aptitude test
working memory
11. Applies psychological principles to the workplace to improve productivity and the quality of work life
Decision making
industrial/organizational psychologist
Heuristics
Aversive counterconditioning
12. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.
Psychotherapy
Repression
Resilience
dependent variable
13. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series
Attachment
Lucid Dream
recency effect
Adolescence
14. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain
Latency Stage
Blood-Brain Barrier
Delusions
brain
15. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior
clinical psychologist
Brainstorming
Phineas Gage
counseling psychologist
16. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phoneme
Phonology
Zajonc & Markus
Orgasm phase
17. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals
prenatal development
Obedience
Self
Type B behavior
18. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties
Withdrawal Symptoms
Lawrence Kohlberg
strain studies
humanistic psychology
19. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.
independent variable
Trichromatic theory
ethics
Naturalistic observation
20. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Factor analysis
psychiatrist
Anxiety
Oedipus Complex
21. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.
Anna Freud
Hue
procedural memory
split brain patients
22. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher
polygenic inheritance
humanistic psychology
Bipolar disorder
significant difference
23. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion
Albert Bandura
schema
Formal operational stage
24. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities
Kurt Lewin
Sociobiology
Reinforcer
Psychoanalysis
25. Period of development from conception until birth
strain studies
prenatal development
Self-actualization
hypothalamus
26. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
Phillip Zimbardo
Learned Helplessness
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
René Descartes
27. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.
psychobiology
somatic nervous system
John Locke
Functional fixedness
28. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Konrad Lorenz
Social phobia
Stress
Decision making
29. Problems in going to sleep or maintaining sleep
encoding specificity principle
ethnocentrism
Anxiety
Insomnia
30. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.
Actor-observer Effect
monocular cues
Linguistics
Puberty
31. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.
John Locke
evolutionary psychology
Demand characteristics
Psychodynamically
32. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.
Ideal Self
Social Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Vasocongestion
33. In psychoanalysis - the repetitive cycle of interpretation - resistance to interpretation - and transference.
science
Superstitious Behavior
Motive
Working through
34. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.
pituitary gland
mean
neural impulse
Denial
35. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation
Martin Seligman
Alfred Adler
Carl Jung
recessive gene
36. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Raymond Cattell
inferential statistics
Konrad Lorenz
37. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit
Dissociative identity disorder
semantic memory
Token economy
Denial
38. In Adler's theory - a feeling of openness with all humanity.
Charles Darwin
Latent Content
Social Interest
Health psychology
39. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response
Shaping
forensic psychologist
working memory
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
40. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed
Norms
rods
independent variable
Premack principle
41. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes
Resilience
cerebellum
afferent neuron nerve
Social Influence
42. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.
Prejudice
Problem Solving
Morality
Substance Abuser
43. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again
state-dependent learning
Carol Gilligan
Antisocial personality disorder
recency effect
44. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.
Monochromats
Psychosurgery
Backward search
motor projection areas
45. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits
Harry Stack Sullivan
response bias
mean
DNA
46. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data
Coping
Albert Ellis
mode
Double-blind techniques
47. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization
inhibitory neurotransmitter
polarization
motivated forgetting
Intelligence
48. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Broca's area
hypothalamus
psychology
functionalism
49. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.
Optic chiasm
maintenance rehearsal
(cerebral) cortex
crystallized intelligence
50. 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
Stimulus Discrimination
Withdrawal Symptoms
myelin sheath
Concrete operational stage