2025 AP PSYCH Cumulative Review #6

What does the autonomic nervous system control?

• Voluntary movement
• Cardiac muscles only
• Involuntary responses
• The spinal cord

The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system are both part of the 

• central nervous system
• somatic nervous system
• autonomic nervous system
• endocrine system

As the result of a stroke, a man has lost his ability to plan, make decisions, and set goals. Which lobe has been damaged?

• FRONTAL LOBE
• PARIETAL LOBE
• OCCIPITAL LOBE
• THE BROCA'S AREA

Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information

• Forebrain
• Cerebral Cortex
• Corpus Callosum
• Cerebellum

Located at the base of the brainstem; controls basic life support functions such as breathing, heartbeat, circulation, swallowing

• cerebellum
• neuron
• amygdala
• medulla

Study of how the mind processes information & focuses on how people think is which perspective?

• Humanistic
• Psychodynamic
• Cognitive
• Biopsychological

Suppose a researcher wants to study the effect of drug A on subjects’ alertness. He divides 100 subjects into two groups of 50, an experimental group and a control group. He dissolves drug A in saline solution and injects it into all the subjects in the experimental group. He then gives all the control group subjects an injection of only saline solution.
What is the independent variable? 

• drug A
• saline solution 
• the subjects
• the needles

Independent variable is to dependent variable as _________ is to ____________.

• hypothesis | conclusion
• effect | cause
• cause | effect.
• conclusion | hypothesis

A correlation coefficient of 0.8 is a _______________ and suggests that as one variable ____________, the other variable ______________.

• strong positive | increases | increases
• weak positive | increases | increases
• strong positive | increases | decreases
• weak positive | increases | decreases

If a head injury results in someone no longer being able to hear, which part of the brain may have been damaged?

• temporal lobe
• occipital lobe
• parietal lobe
• frontal lobe