AP Psychology Exam Review

5 Written Questions

1. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new, more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.
2. 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 personality disorder.
3. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.
4. the process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held
5. body sense of equilibrium and balance

5 Matching Questions

1. Psychoactive Drug
2. Humanistic theory
3. Abnormal Behavior
4. Descriptive Studies
5. Variable-ratio Schedule

1. a 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
2. b A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon
3. c A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred
4. d A drug that alters behavior, thought, or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system, thereby affecting consciousness
5. e Behavior characterized as atypical, socially unacceptable, distressing to the individual or others, maladaptive, and/or the result of distorted cognitions

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures, tone of voice, vocal inflections, and facial expressions.
   1. operational definition
   2. naturalistic observation
   3. normal distribution
   4. Nonverbal Communication
2. The overt story line, characters, and setting of a dream-the obvious, clearly discernible events of the dream
   1. Humanistic theory
   2. Raymond Cattell
   3. Manifest Content
   4. set point
3. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid, intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of normal consciousness
   1. Dissociative identity disorder
   2. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
   3. natural selection
   4. autonomic nervous system
4. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age
   1. difference threshold
   2. receptor site
   3. Dissociative amnesia
   4. Representative sample
5. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
   1. decay
   2. Self
   3. Light
   4. Syntax

5 True/False Questions

1. Gender Schema Theory → The theory that children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and interpret their perceptions about the world and themselves

   True        False

2. agonist → chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter

   True        False

3. Stimulus Discrimination → 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.

   True        False

4. fovea → small area of retina where image is focused

   True        False

5. percentile score → Areas of the retina that, when stimulated, produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.

   True        False