AP Psychology Final Exam 6-10

What modern personality perspective proposed by researcher Bandura emphasized the interaction of people’s traits and their situations?

• Psychodynamic perspective

• Behavioral perspective

• Psychoanalytic perspective

• Observational perspective

• Social-cognitive perspective

Under which perspective do psychologists now see anxiety disorders by considering possible evolutionary, genetic, and physiological influences?

• Trait perspective

• Social-cognitive perspective

• Behavioral perspective

• Learning perspective

• Biological perspective

What term describes a widely used system to classify the symptoms (not causes) of psychological disorders, guides physicians and mental health workers in medical diagnoses (not treatments), and defines who is eligible for treatments?

• International Classification of Diseases (ICD -10)

• No answers are correct

• Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)

• Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Development Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC:3)

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fifth Edition

What greatly increases liking and contentment as a result of shared attitudes, beliefs, and interests?

• Passionate love

• Physical attractiveness

• Proximity

• Similarity

• Companionate love

What term describes the energizing contribution of an enthusiastic audience that has shown up in studies of more than a quarter-million college and professional athletic events?

• Deflated ball advantage

• Corked bat advantage

• 12th man advantage

• Home field advantage

• Foot wedge advantage

Since a reinforcer is anything that increases the frequency of a preceding response, what respective type of reinforcer strengthens a response by reducing an adverse stimulus and what respective type of reinforcer strengthens a response by presenting a typically pleasurable stimulus after a response?

• Negative reinforcement, positive reincarnation

• Negative reinforcement, positive reinforcement

• No answers are correct

• Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement

• Respondent behavior, operant behavior

Respectively, what is a simple salt that can be an effective mood stabilizer for those suffering the manic-depressive swings of bipolar disorder and what controversial, yet effective, biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients applies a brief electric current through the brain of an anesthetized patient for about a minute three times a week for a month?

• OxyContin, positron emission tomography (PET)

• Xanax, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

• Chlorpromazine, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

• Prozac, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

• Lithium, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Who originated and practiced the first psychotherapy (psychoanalysis) and interpreted a patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and therefore released repressed feelings that allowed a patient to gain self-insight?

• B.F. Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

• Abraham Maslow

• Ivan Pavlov

• Carl Rogers

Respectively, what personality disorder displays shallow attention-getting emotions and goes to great lengths to gain others’ praise and which disorder exaggerates one’s own importance aided by success fantasies?

• Schizoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder

• Histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder

• Borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder

• Schizoid personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder

• Histrionic personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder

Why do people who sleep 7 to 8 hours typically out-live the chronically sleep-deprived?

• All answers are correct

• Sleep deprivation leads to irritability and slowed performance

• Chronic sleep debt increases hunger-arousing ghrelin which can lead to obesity

• Chronic sleep debt impairs creativity, communication, concentration, and can lead to accidents

• Sleep deprivation suppresses immune cells that fight off viral infections and cancer