AP Review #1

Janessa sometimes treats her clients with drugs, but at other times she changes the patterns of rewards and punishments. Her approach can best be described as

• behavioral
• biological
• eclectic
• humanistic

Jody wants to study the impact of prenatal nutrition on birth weight of a baby. What is the operational definition of the independent variable?

• prenatal nutrition
• multivitamin with calcium
• pregnant women
• birth weight of baby

Myelin serves what purpose in the nervous system?

• It accelerates an action potential
• It is a chemical that travels across the synapse
• It causes and inhibitory postsynaptic potential
• It causes an excitatory postsynaptic potential

When Ali first had braces put on her teeth, the pressure and tension were very uncomfortable. Now, she barely notices her braces. Why?

• The pressure constancy has caused the sensory receptors to adapt
• The sensory nerve provide codes for only one sense
• There are no free nerve endings in the mouth
• The transduction has been affected by the braces

Dante raises his hand each time he hears a tone over headphones in an experiment. As the test progresses, Dante misses hearing the tone half of the time. The research has found Dante's

• absolute threshold
• difference threshold
• internal noise level
• response criterion

Spontaneous recovery follows

• reconditioning
• extinction
• stimulus control
• stimulus degradation

Which of the following is an example of an episodic memory?

• The night you graduated from high school
• How to type without looking at the keyboard
• The capitols of the 50 U.S. states
• How to play a piano piece from memory

Luna uses the same method of balancing chemistry equations for the first 10 problems. However, a completely different approach is needed for the 11th problem. She can't figure it out. Luna most likely developed

• an algorithm
• functional fixedness
• a mental model
• a mental set

Max was in an accident that took away his vision. He says he can't see anything but in an experiment he can locate a visual target. Max is experiencing

• priming
• blindsight
• activation-synthesis
• retroactive interference

Which of the following tests was first to have verbal and performance subscales?

• ACT
• Wechsler's Adult Intelligence Scale III
• The Stanford-Binet
• The Binet