AP Psych - Midterm Review

Elizabeth's Loftus' research on eyewitness testimony

• found recalling meaningless information drops of very soon after the initial learning and then levels off.

• found retrieving information was possible without any retrieval cues.

• came up with the misinformation effect which a person's existing memories can be altered if the person is exposed to misleading information

• can only stay in short term memory for a specified period of time

• that children under the age of 3 have an invalid testimony due to infantile amnesia

An important difference between humanistic and psychoanalytic approaches is that humanistic psychologists believe in the importance of

• learning

• free will

• determinism

• biological instincts

• unconscious processes

It is girl scout cookie season! When selling cookies door to door, what type of reinforcement schedule is being demonstrated?

• Fixed Interval

• Fixed Ratio

• Variable Interval

• Variable Ratio

• Continuous

Answering multiple-choice questions is often easier than answering fill-in or completion questions, because multiple choice questions

• provide more retrieval cues

• enhance retention of information

• check memorization rather than critical thinking

• are definitional rather than conceptual

• are easier to encode than completion questions

People who have experienced severe damage to the frontal lobe of the brain seldom regain their ability to

• make and carry out plans

• recognize visual patterns

• process auditory information

• process olfactory information

• integrate their multiple personalities

After watching the evening news, Khloe believes the newscast contains only tragic events like floods earthquakes, and murders. When asked to think carefully about the newscast, she did recall many other events. This is an example of

• Representativeness heuristic

• Algorithm

• Insight

• Availability heuristic

• Functional Fixedness

Which of the following types of validity is established by demonstrating that there is a correlation between scores on a test and later academic performance?

• content

• predictive

• face

• concurrent

• test-retest

Balance is influenced by the

• cochlea

• basilar membrane

• eardrum

• auditory nerve

• semicircular canal

A young woman dreamed that she was dining with her parents when a young guy grabbed her wallet containing her driver's license, cards, cash, and family pictures. She awoke in a cold sweat. After discussing the dream with a friend, she realized that she had misplaced her wallet the previous day. A psychoanalyst would say losing the wallet would be:

• ego

• latent content

• manifest content

• repression

• a hypnagogic hallucination

Which of the following responses was most likely acquired through classical conditioning?

• The startle response of a baby the first time the baby hears thunder

• A child's fear of dogs after the child has been bitten by a dog

• The cry of pain expressed by a man whose hand has been cut on a piece of broken glass

• The uncontrollable blinking of a woman who has just gotten dust in her eye

• The salivation of a dog that is halfway through a bowl of its favorite food