AP Psychology Famous Theories

Which theory states that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished?

• Drive Reduction Theory

• Social Learning Theory

• Signal Detection Theory

• Two Factory Theory

Which of the following is Schachter’s theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal?

• Gate-Control Theory

• Social Learning Theory

• Opponent-Process Theor

• Two-Factor Theory

What is the theory that states opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black)

• Trichromatic Theory

• Place Theory

• Opponent-Process Theory

• Signal Detection Theory

What is the theory that concludes the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch?

• Auditory Processing Theory

• Frequency Theory

• Gate Control Theory

• James-Lange Theory

This definition explains which theory below - predicts how and when we detect the presences of a faint stimulus amid background stimulation

• Signal Detection Theory

• Figure Ground Theory

• Place Theory

• Frequency Theory

Which theory explains when links the pitch we hear with the location where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated.

• Place Theory

• Trichromatic Theory

• Signal Detection Theory

• Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

What is the theory that proposes the idea that psychological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the needs?

• Two Factor Theory

• Drive Reduction Theory

• Cannon Bard Theory

• James-Lange Theory

Which theory states an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion ?

• Social Learning Theory

• Two Factor Theory

• Gate-Control Theory

• Cannon-Bard Theory

The theory that proposes that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

• James-Lange Theory

• Cannon-Bard Theory

• Drive Reduction Theory

• Gate Control Theory

Which theory states that children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be male or female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly ?

• Social Learning Theory

• Opponent Process Theory

• Gender-Schema Theory

• Two Factor Theory