AP Success - AP Psychology: Comprehensive Set 4
Question 1
Which of the following best illustrates the concept of flashbulb memory?
Jamie can remember her childhood phone number.
Alex can recall his exact location and emotions when he heard a significant piece of news.
Kris recalls the sequence of events from a movie watched last week.
Pat memorizes a list of vocabulary words for a test.
Lee remembers every detail of a painting after looking at it for 5 minutes.
Question 2
The phenomenon of change blindness is most directly attributable to which of the following?
The absence of iconic memory
Deficiencies in short-term memory storage
Problems in the visual cortex
Limited attentional resources
Ineffective retrieval cues
Question 3
Which type of memory is most clearly implicated when an individual learns to ride a bicycle?
Procedural memory
Episodic memory
Flashbulb memory
Echoic memory
Semantic memory
Question 4
A researcher uses a deception technique in a study about the effects of caffeine on memory. Which ethical principle is most directly involved?
Informed consent
Confidentiality
Debriefing
Anonymity
Protection from harm
Question 5
Which neurotransmitter is most closely linked to the sensation of pleasure and reward?
Norepinephrine
GABA
Serotonin
Acetylcholine
Dopamine
Question 6
The concept of "belief perseverance" best demonstrates which of the following psychological phenomena?
Cognitive dissonance
Conformity
Social facilitation
The bystander effect
Confirmation bias
Question 7
According to Piaget, a child who can think logically about abstract propositions is in which stage of cognitive development?
Postformal operational
Preoperational
Formal operational
Concrete operational
Sensorimotor
Question 8
The mere exposure effect most directly contributes to the formation of which of the following?
Prejudices
Phobias
Aggressive behaviors
Friendships
Prosocial behaviors
Question 9
In the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which of the following represents a self-actualization need?
Self-esteem
Security
Creativity and fulfillment
Love and belonging
Physiological needs
Question 10
Which brain structure is primarily involved in the regulation of hunger and satiety?
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
Medulla
Amygdala
Cerebellum
Question 11
The Yerkes-Dodson law suggests that:
High levels of arousal are optimal for all types of tasks.
Low levels of arousal are optimal for tasks of all difficulty levels.
Performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases.
Arousal level has no effect on tasks that are inherently interesting.
Arousal and performance are unrelated.
Question 12
A psychologist studying the effects of group size on conformity is most likely to refer to the findings of which classic psychology study?
Bandura's Bobo doll experiment
The Stanford prison experiment
The Milgram obedience study
Asch's conformity experiments
Pavlov's conditioning experiments
Question 13
The overjustification effect may undermine intrinsic motivation by introducing:
Internal rewards for extrinsically motivated behaviors
Positive reinforcement for all behaviors
External rewards for self-motivating activities
Negative reinforcement
Punishments for unwanted behaviors
Question 14
When Jamal moved to a new country, he gradually adopted the cultural norms and language of the new culture, demonstrating the process of:
Assimilation
Socialization
Acculturation
Accommodation
Habituation
Question 15
The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the:
Primacy effect
Serial position effect
Recency effect
Echoic memory effect
Chunking effect
Question 16
Which area of the brain is most involved in the creation of new explicit memories?
Cerebellum
Hypothalamus
Thalamus
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Question 17
The "bystander effect" is most likely to occur when:
An individual helps someone else despite potential danger to themselves.
Only one person in a group decides to help in an emergency.
A group of people witness an emergency but do nothing to help.
A person helps another person to conform to group norms.
A person is alone and witnessing an emergency.
Question 18
Cross-cultural studies on human development suggest that:
Social norms do not affect the development stages.
All cultures distinguish between six basic facial expressions of emotion.
Attachment styles are significantly different across cultures.
The concept of adolescence is universal.
Developmental milestones occur in the same order across cultures.
Question 19
The phenomenon of cognitive dissonance is most closely associated with which of the following theories or models?
Freud's psychoanalytic theory
Piaget's stages of cognitive development
Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Bandura's social learning theory
Question 20
The use of token economies is most common in which of the following types of therapy?
Psychodynamic therapy
Humanistic therapy
Behavioral therapy
Gestalt therapy
Cognitive therapy
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