AP Psych Review Fall Semester Exam 2020 #5

Electrically stimulating a rat’s amygdala would most likely produce which of the following?

• Calmness

• A coma

• Memory loss

• Aggression

• Sleep

After an electrode implanted in a cat’s brain stimulates the cat’s amygdala, the cat will most likely do which

of the following?

• Demonstrate maternal instincts

• Begin to eat uncontrollably

• Begin to purr and seek physical contact

• Immediately slip into REM sleep

• Immediately withdraw in fear

A participant in a study of music perception listens to music with electrodes attached to her scalp while data

are collected on the activity of her brain. This technique is called

• electroencephalography (EEG)

• computed tomography (CT)

• positron-emission tomography (PET)

• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

• functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Emiko’s cat often meows for food. Emiko decides to eliminate the behavior by feeding the cat only when it

does not meow. Over the next few weeks, she sometimes ignores the cat when it meows. Other times, she

feeds the cat when it meows. Which of the following is the most reasonable prediction to make about the

cat’s meowing for food?

• It will disappear due to extinction.

• It will decrease overall but not extinguish.

• It will remain unchanged due to a continuous schedule of reinforcement.

• It will increase due to a variable schedule of reinforcement.

• It will increase due to positive punishment.

Because studies of learning show that events occurring close together in time are easier to associate than

those occurring at widely different times, parents should probably avoid which of the following?

• Corporal punishment

• Mild punishment

• Consistent punishment

• Inescapable punishment

• Delay of punishment

An evolutionary psychologist would explain that humans desire social interaction, social acceptance, and

social affiliation due to a need for

• achievement

• individualism

• behavioral change

• survival

• self-actualization

In an experiment to test the effects of hunger on aggressive behavior, aggressive behavior would be the

• placebo

• control

• hypothesis

• dependent variable

• independent variable

Experimental research differs from correlational research in that experimental research

• allows for prediction

• may reveal a causal relation

• establishes a mathematical relation

• defines the strength of the relation

• uses a dependent variable

The idea that the explanation for prejudice lies in children’s modeling of their parents’ prejudicial beliefs,

emotions, and behaviors is most closely aligned with the theories of which of the following?

• Lev Vygotsky

• John B. Watson

• Jean Piaget

• B. F. Skinner

• Albert Bandura

An individual’s fear of dogs that is lost as the individual is exposed to dogs in nonthreatening situations is

referred to by behaviorists as a fear that has been

• satiated

• suppressed

• repressed

• extinguished

• punished