AP Psychology Exam Prep

Known as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movements

• Thalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus
• Cerebellum

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

• Forebrain
• Cerebral Cortex
• Corpus Callosum
• Cerebellum

Controls hearing, and language comprehension

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Parietal Lobe

The split-brain procedure involves the cutting of this

• Cerebral Cortex
• Cerebellum
• Corpus Callosum
• Caudate Nucleus

A person has a stroke on her occipital lobe.  What might happen to her?

• reduced planning abilities
• deafness
• coma
• blindness

According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the need to have respect for ourselves and to be valued by others is classified within the category of

• physiological needs
• safety needs
• belongingness needs
• esteem needs

Staff members at a mental hospital do not respond to patients who use threats, but praise patients who are courteous. Which psychotherapeutic approach is being used?

• assertiveness training
• cognitive therapy
• behavioral therapy
• humanistic therapy

Behavior therapists emphasize which of the following in their treatment of clients?

• freedom of choice about their future
• uncovering of unconscious defense mechanisms
• responses that have been reinforced in the past
• repressed aggressive impulses

Which of the following is a type of therapy for alcoholism that involves the administration of a drug that will induce nausea after a person consumes alcohol?

• aversion
• implosive
• flooding
• rational-emotive

 Saying whatever comes to mind, even if it seems senseless, painful, or embarrassing, is part of the Freudian technique known as

• unconditional positive regard
• free association
• non-directive therapy
• transference