AP Psych Midterm Review

A moderate positive correlation has been found between a person's weight and hours of television watched per week. Which of the following scatterplots best shows this relationship?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The part of the brain most closely associated with maintaining balance and the coordination of complex sequences of movements is the 

• hypothalamus
• cerebellum
• medulla
• pons

What is the function of the hippocampus with in the brain?

• The organization of emotional events
• To store long term memories and regulate short term memories
• to regulate fear and anger
• the process of connecting the left and right hemispheres

__________ are retinal receptors that detect black,white, and grey.

• cones
• rods
• optic nerves
• foves

Diamond went swimming with friends who did not want to get into the water because it was cold. Diamond jumped in and after a few minutes declared it was cold when she first got in but then her body got used to it.Diamond's body got accustomed to the water due to....

• perceptual set
• absolute threshold
• selective attention
• sensory adaptation

Parents say, “I’m taking away your phone because you failed Chemistry.”  Parents are using           

• positive punishment
• negative punishment
• positive reinforcement
• classical conditioning

Which theory of color vision states that the thalmaus will produce afterimages of black-white, red-green, and blue-yellow colors when overly stimulated?

• Young-Helmholtz
• Place
• Parallel Processing
• Opponent Processing

Which of  the following perspectives is most likely to address how the encoding, storing, and retrieval of information might alter our thoughts? 

• Behavioral 
• Humanistic
• Cognitive 
• Biological

An individual with an exceptional memory is identified. She is capable of recalling major events, the weather, and what she did on any given date. What research method is being used if a psychologist conducts an in-depth investigation of this individual including questionnaires, brain scans,and memory tests.

• Naturalistic Observation
• Survey
• Interview
• Case Study

Your dog didn't demonstrate the trick it learned until a reward was present which motivated it to show the trick

• This is an example of a fixed ratio schedule of learning
• This demonstrates latent learning
• This demonstrates classical conditioning
• This exemplifies intrinsic motivation