AP Psychology Midterm Review ChAPters 1-8
This review quiz was designed to test your knowledge on chapters one threw eight. The content of the quiz is challenging but not impossible. Have fun!
- 1.The tendency to view one's group superior to anotther is called?
- A.
Humanism
- B.
Functionalism
- C.
Behavioral
- D.
Ethnocentrism
- E.
Cognitive
- 2.Which of the following is said to be psychologys intellectual parents?
- A.
Physiology and interpretation
- B.
Physiology and perception
- C.
Preception and interpretation
- D.
Preception and purpose
- E.
Philosophy and physiology
- 3.Which of the following is not a step in the scientific investigation?
- A.
Design study
- B.
Formulate connections between variables
- C.
Report findings
- D.
Formulate a hypothesis
- E.
Collect data
- 4.Which of the following is NOT a flaw in evaluating research?
- A.
Sampling bias
- B.
Double-blind procedure
- C.
Response set
- D.
Level of education of experimenter
- E.
Social desirability bias
- 5.Which of the following would show the strongest correlation between two variables?
- A.
-.20
- B.
-.50
- C.
-.90
- D.
0
- E.
-.60
- 6.The structure in the forebrain through which all sensory information (except smell) must pass to get to the cerebral cortex is?
- A.
Hypothalamus
- B.
Thalamus
- C.
Cerebrum
- D.
Medulla
- E.
Spinal cord
- 7.The medulla controls all the following except?
- A.
Circulating blood
- B.
Regulating reflexes
- C.
Stamina
- D.
Breathing
- E.
Muscle tone
- 8.Split brain surgery is preformed to prevent which of the following?
- A.
Impaired motor skills
- B.
Epileptic seizures
- C.
Strokes
- D.
Heart attacks
- E.
Concusions
- 9.The ______ lobe is to hearing as the occipital lobe is to vision.
- A.
Parietal
- B.
Cerebellar
- C.
Hindbrain
- D.
Frontal
- E.
Temporal
- 10.Sound heard in the left ear is registered?..
- A.
Faster in the right hemisphere
- B.
Only in the right hemisphere
- C.
Both hemispheres at an equal pace
- D.
Faster in the left hemisphere
- E.
Neither
- 11.Which of the following is NOT a structure of the human eye?
- A.
Cornea
- B.
Retina
- C.
Soma
- D.
Fovea
- E.
Pupil
- 12.The neural tissue lining the back of the surface of the eye that absorbs light, processes images, and sends visual information to the brain is?
- A.
Fovea
- B.
Lens
- C.
Pupil
- D.
Iris
- E.
Retina
- 13.All of the following are Gesalt Principles of Perceptual Organization except?
- A.
Similarity
- B.
Proximity
- C.
Continuity
- D.
Perceptual set
- E.
Closure
- 14.Which of the following is NOT assoicated with the EEG pattern of sleep-delta?
- A.
8-12 cps
- B.
Less than 4 cps
- C.
Dreamless sleep
- D.
Slow-wave sleep
- E.
Deep sleep
- 15.Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of REM sleep?
- A.
Low amplitude
- B.
Vivid dreams
- C.
Relatively deep stage of sleep
- D.
Theta waves
- E.
High frequency
- 16.When an event following a response increases an organisms tendency to make that response, it is called?
- A.
Law of effect
- B.
Instrumental learning
- C.
Operant conditioning
- D.
Reinforcement
- E.
Classical conditioning
- 17.Which of the following is false?
- A.
Fixed-ratio is less resistant to extinction
- B.
Extinction is the gradual weakening of a stimulus
- C.
Continuous reinforcement is the most effective
- D.
Acquisition is the intial stage of learning
- E.
Varible-ratio has a higher resistance to extinction
- 18.When an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation, it is called?
- A.
Escape learning
- B.
Negitive reinforcement
- C.
Positive reinforcement
- D.
Punishment
- E.
Avoidance learning
- 19.Classical conditioning was deeply influenced by which of the following?
- A.
B.F Skinner
- B.
Albert Bandura
- C.
Wilhelm Wundt
- D.
William James
- E.
Ivan Pavlov
- 20.Continued rehearsal of material after you mastered it is referred to as?
- A.
Acronym
- B.
Overlearning
- C.
Rehearsal
- D.
Mnemonic device
- E.
Link method
- 21.Which of the following is NOT a method of encoding?
- A.
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
- B.
Attention
- C.
Visual imagery
- D.
Elaboration
- E.
Levels of processing
- 22.Pseudoforgetting refers to?
- A.
Forgetting relevent information
- B.
Forgetting material just learned
- C.
Forgetting vivid details of childhood years
- D.
The phenonenon that you cant forget material you never learned
- E.
Needing help to remember past memories
- 23.A heuristic is?
- A.
A flash of insight
- B.
Functional fixedness
- C.
A guiding principle or "rule of thumb" used in problem solving
- D.
Mental set
- E.
Solved through fast mapping
- 24.Problem space refers to?
- A.
The technique to finding a specific answer to a math problem
- B.
A system to solving a problem in a specific location
- C.
The space on the paper where a problem is found
- D.
Not being able to solve a problem in a certain area
- E.
The set of possible pathways to a solution
- 25.Research indicates bilingualism has a negitive effect on?
- A.
Religious belief
- B.
Problem solving
- C.
Memory storage
- D.
Language devolpment
- E.
None of the above
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