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. A research approach that follows a group of people over time to determine change or stability in behavior.
Longitudinal Study
Need for achievement
Type A behavior
Functional fixedness
2. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.
Standard score
Social Psychology
self-actualization
Token economy
3. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.
observer bias
Albert Bandura
Projection
placebo
4. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume
Self
frontal lobes
Sublimation
Conservation
5. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.
Phobic disorders
Self-fulfilling prophecy
gustation
Socrates
6. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.
unconscious
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests
Actor-observer Effect
Rational-emotive therapy
7. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese
Stress
axon terminal
Dream
Konrad Lorenz
8. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.
declarative memory
Case study
genetic mapping
Specific phobia
9. The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves
parasympathetic nervous system
bulimia nervosa
Dissociative disorders
Gender Schema Theory
10. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Stressor
developmental psychologist
long-term memory
11. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.
Absolute threshold
Phineas Gage
Nonverbal Communication
gonads
12. 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
13. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success
Gibson & Walk
Need for achievement
Dichromats
sound localization
14. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.
cognitive psychology
Sex
Unconditioned Response
Saturation
15. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.
John Garcia
Kenneth Clark
Dissociative amnesia
Rationalization
16. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.
postconventional level of moral development
adaptation
Trait
Regression
17. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.
Ageism
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Concept
population
18. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.
Metal retardation
Personality disorders
hormone
Walter B. Cannon
19. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin
crystallized intelligence
Survey
convolutions
Opiates (AKA narcotics)
20. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.
Standard score
primacy effect
Object permanence
Oral Stage
21. The study of language - including speech sounds - meaning - and grammar.
Resilience
Preoperational stage
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Linguistics
22. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)
DNA
brainstem
Law of Effect
Wernicke's area
23. 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
amygdala
significant difference
Anna Freud
evolutionary psychology
24. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender
sensory adaptation
replication
ex post facto study
Rationalization
25. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.
Alfred Binet
psychobiology
Subgoal analysis
fraternal twins
26. Body sense of equilibrium and balance
pineal gland
Charles Darwin
Secondary Punisher
vestibular sense
27. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony
family studies
dominant genes
iris
Elizabeth Loftus
28. Retrieval cues that match original information work better
blind spot
significant difference
Darley & Latane
encoding specificity principle
29. Focuses on psychological factors in illness
replication
health psychologist
zone of proximal development
Phillip Zimbardo
30. Learning; systematic desensitization
Tolman
Wolpe
Carl Rogers
Bulimia Nervosa
31. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development
Abraham Maslow
Intimacy
Fixation
Color Blindness
32. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it
median
fluid intelligence
explicit memory
psychiatrist
33. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'
Approach-approach conflict
Descriptive Studies
sympathetic nervous system
Brainstorming
34. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.
Reactance
Symptom substitution
Lewis Terman
Transference
35. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making
ACTH (arenocorticotropic hormone)
authoritative parenting
Aristotle
memory span
36. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.
sympathetic nervous system
brainstem
Cross-sectional Studies
Personality
37. The process of dividing the world into 'in' groups and 'out' groups.
Defense Mechanism
Reasoning
eclectic
Social Categorization
38. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them
Consciousness
Robert Sternberg
Reaction Formation
Personal Fable
39. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing
Erik Erikson
Alfred Binet
selective attention
Archetypes
40. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.
habituation
Social Categorization
Robert Rosenthal
Prototype
41. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Rationalization
episodic memory
Self-efficacy
Defense Mechanism
42. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable
dependent variable
response bias
Personal Fable
René Descartes
43. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
Percentile score
Visual cortex
Fundamental Attribution Error
44. 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
school psychologist
Social Need
Anorexia Nervosa
long-term potentiation
45. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems
mutation
Skinner Box
interneurons
counseling psychologist
46. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior
Self-efficacy
mutation
dominant genes
Humanistic theory
47. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints
Phonology
elaborative rehearsal
frontal lobes
Decentration
48. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory
ESP
retrieval
Self-efficacy
Actor-observer Effect
49. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon
prenatal development
Drive theory (aka - drive-reduction theory)
pancreas
Gordon Allport
50. 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 -
Punishment
Brainstorming
Lucid Dream
Self-actualization