AP/Honors Psychology Midterm Exam Review 2024-25 CED Units 1-3

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Julian believes that everything we do is determined by our personality, which we are born with. Thanos believes that we are the sum product of our life experiences. The basic conflict that describes how these two perspectives differ is

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nature vs. nurture.

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Brielle is working to increase the productivity of employees during the holiday season at a retail store. She is most likely what type of psychologist?

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industrial-organizational

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Which scatterplot shows the strongest negative correlation between the variables?

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The child who says “milk gone” is engaging in _____; this type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of _____

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telegraphic speech; syntax

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Which of the following has limited storage capacity? short-term memory, long-term memory, sensory memory, implicit memory

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short-term memory

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Which hypothesis holds that if a child does not learn a language of any kind by the age of 7, they will never be able to master a language?

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critical period

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Which of the following is not related to forgetting? retroactive interference, repression, decay, long-term potentiation

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long-term potentiation

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Which brain part is responsible for facilitating explicit memories? Options: brain stem, cerebellum, amygdala, hippocampus

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hippocampus

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Your psychology professors want to describe the average score on your first psychology test. Which measure of central tendency are they most likely to use?

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mean

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Scores pile up at the low/left end of the scale in

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a positively skewed distribution.