AP Practice Exam
2018t
1. A Random Assignment reduces harmful variables
Research methods
2. C
Facil = easy
Social Psy
3. A Overjustification
Too much extrinsic motivation leads to less enjoyment.
Motivation and Emotion
4. A cognitive behavioral
Cognitive = thoughts interpersonal skills = behavior
Treatment
5. D experiment
An experiment has an IV, DV and a control group.
Research methods
6. A Freud
History
7. C
Abnormal
8. B. Discrimination – reacting to pepperoni but not plain pizza
Can you tell the difference? Then you can discriminate.
learning
9. A Opposites do NOT attract
Social Psy
Notice the direction of the arrows
Light hits the rods and cones first, then the bipolar cells, then the ganglionic cells, then the auditory nerve!
10. The answer is C
Sens Perc
11. According to the graph, people who were in a sad mood remembered the sad words better. People who were in a happy mood remembered the happy words better.
That’s either mood congruence or state dependent memory.
The answer is B
Motivation emotion
12. B. Brain plasticity
biology
13. A. For the mode, you simply need to count or look at the highest point on the curve
Research methods
14. C hindsight bias
I knew it all along!!!
Cogn and Mem
15. D Projection (accusing other people of being like you are)
personality
16. D algorithm (step by step, logical method)
Cogn and Mem
17. A. Random assignment is something different
B. Yes! In order to replicate, all operational definitions must be precise. For example, does weight loss lead to happiness? Define happy. Define weight loss
C. No
D. Correlational research still needs operational definitions, not just experiments
E. impossible!
Research methods
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18. C independent
The independent variable is what is different for the various groups.
Research methods
19. C syntax �(order of words)
Cogn and Mem
20. B The only answer that mentions light (photoreceptors)
States of consciousness
21. C aversive conditioning (aversion therapy)
Treatment
22. D. the only amnesia as a choice
Dissociative amnesia is NOT caused by brain damage (like retrograde amnesia). It is caused by psychological trauma.
Abnormal
23. D understanding language
Biology
24. The concept of “g” is general intelligence
The evidence against is are individuals that don’t have “g” but are only good in one specific thing, like autistic savants.
The answer is D
Intelligence (testing)
25. Diathesis stress model of mental illness
Diathesis = predisposition (genetics) stress = environment
The theory says that even if you have the genetic predisposition for schizophrenia (or other disease), you won’t get the disease unless your environment triggers it. (example, physical abuse, trauma)
The answer is E.
Abnormal
26. B facial feedback hypothesis
Motivation and Emotion
27. Which answer doesn’t belong? Do you want a positive or negative answer?
The answer is C.
Authoritative parenting is the ideal mix between having high expectations but showing love and caring.
Development
28. A (2 students)
intelligence
29. C specific phobia
Abnormal
30. C
Sight of Cat
Sight of Cat
Door slamming
Door slamming
Fear of cat
Fear of door slam
Fear of door slam
learning
31. E flooding
Treatment
32. D self efficacy
It’s your belief that you can make a difference.
Self esteem is about how you value yourself as a person.
Self efficacy is how you feel about your ability to make positive changes in your world.
personality
33. A. Gardner’s kinesthetic intelligence
B. Mathematical and linguistic intelligence
C. yes!
D. Creative intelligence
E. Not intelligence
Intelligence (testing)
34. Learning can be defined as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, or observational learning.
learning
35. A transduction
Sens Perc
36. B reciprocal determinism
personality
37. B. interpersonal – knowing others
D. Intrapersonal – knowing yourself
Intelligence (testing)
38. B linguistic (words and language) and heuristics (shortcuts)
Intelligence (testing)
39. B Habituation
learning
40. B People accept vague descriptions of themselves and ignore the inaccuracies
personality
41. B semicircular canals
Sens Perc
42. C �ossicles
Sens Perc
43. A self serving bias
Social Psy
44. A Carl Rogers
Treatment
45. E
Her efforts on behalf of the mentally ill and prisoners helped create dozens of new institutions across the United States and in Europe and changed people’s perceptions of these populations. Charged during the American Civil War with the administration of military hospitals, Dix also established a reputation as an advocate for the work of female nurses
History or Treatment
46. E
biology
47. C
Abnormal
48. C negative punishment
“take away” = negative
“behavior is reduced” punishment
learning
49. C Normative social influence (conformity)
Social psych
50. A
Biology
51. A
10/12 x 100 = 120 IQ
Intelligence (testing)
52. D
Antipsychotic medication affects dopamine levels.
Biology
53. E
Hypothalamus controls
the endocrine system (glands)
Biology
54. B 55. B 56. C
Research methods
57. C
Abnormal psych
58. B Multiple sclerosis = damaged myelin
Biology
59. C somatosensory cortex
Biology
60. D Incentive motivation
Motivation and Emotion
61. A cerebellum
Biology
62. C systematic desensitization
Treatment
63. D evolutionary
Terms like “adaptive” and “survival of the fittest” mean evolutionary
History
64. C
“identity” = “defining herself”
Which answer describes a 13 year old?
Development
65. D mere exposure
Social Psy
66. A
learning
67.
67. D
Abnormal
68. C
Is the reward predictable or variable? Is it rewarded based on passage of time?
learning
69. E bystander effect
Social Psy
70. C
What do you see in this pic? You are projecting something about yourself on this picture.
personality
71. C contact comfort
Development
72. A functional fixedness
Cogn and Mem
73. E
Sens Perc
74. A
Cogn and Mem
75. E Afterimages are explained by opponent process theory
Sens Perc
76. E drive reduction
Drive to eat,
drive to reproduce
Motivation and Emotion
77. A reduced inhibition
States of consciousness
78. A stimulus generalization
Development
79.E social loafing
Social Psy
80. A
Older people have greater difficulty speaking a new language.
Cognition memory
81. D outgroup homogeneity bias
Lisa’s ingroup are fellow English majors. The outgroup would be the math majors. “They are all alike.”
Social Psy
82. B negatively reinforced
He’s avoiding the negative, rather than enjoying the positive.
learning
83. Without knowing about material let’s take a good guess!
Which answer would describe an emotion going quickly to the amygdala?
Motivation and Emotion
84. Pick an answer that is NATURE, not nurture. Also, pick an answer that is SOCIAL
Development
85.
D. Since the toy disappeared from sight, a younger baby would think it ceased to exist
Development
86. D
Just like the Aron bridge experiment, people can mis-attribute a physiological response. One can mistake the “arousal” for sexual arousal.
Motivation and Emotion
87. D lack of encoding (we just don’t care enough to pay attention
Cognition memory
88. B Acccccccommodation ch ch ch change the schema
Cogn and Mem
89. C sympathetic nervous system
Biology
90. D Occipital “optical”
Biology
.
The answer is B. Fundamental attribution error
Social Psy
92. She apparently has agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder. The answer is A
Abnormal
93. C
Social Psy
94. Heredity = nature environment = nurture
The answer is B
Development
95. C
Cogn and Mem
96. A figure ground (imagine the violin as the figure and the orchestra as the ground (or reverse))
Sens Perc
97. D heuristic Heuristics are short cuts or “rule of thumb” strategies that have worked in the past.
Algorithms are slow, methodical
Cogn and Mem
98. The answer is C
Research methods
99. B reliable (getting same results every time)
Intelligence (testing)
100. Person-centered is humanistic.
The answer is C unconditional positive regard
Treatment