Semester 1 Review - AP Psych

Which type of psychologist would be interested primarily in studying whether people behave differently in groups (instead of alone)

• Experimental

• Cognitive

• Developmental

• Social

Being able to focus on one stimuli amid many is called

• subliminal messaging

• selective attention

• shadowing

• back masking

REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because:

• heart rate is slow and steady while breathing is quick

• we are easily awakened

• dreams are imaginative but without any color

• our nervous system is active but our voluntary muscles don't move

Specific description of variables in an experiment needed for replication

• critical thinking

• operational definitions

• hypothesis

• theories

Which of the 8 perspectives does this fall under: A teacher gives a piece of candy for each correct answer

• cognitive

• biological

• behavioral

• humanistic

A brain injury that results in difficulty seeing and hearing indicates damage to:

• parietal and occipital lobes

• occipital and temporal lobes

• frontal and temporal lobes

• frontal and parietal lobes

Which component of the limbic system has an essential role in the formation of new memories?

• amygdala

• hippocampus

• hypothalamus

• cerebellum

The human vestibular sense is most closely related to

• skin

• semicircular canals

• taste buds

• olfactory bulb

A test that fails to predict what it was designed to predict lacks:

• standardization

• norms

• validity

• reliability

Memory is best defined as

• conscious encoding of information

• stored knowledge that has been semantically encoded

• the persistence of learning over time

• recalling info stored in the cerebral cortex