AP Psych Exam Review 4A

In Valerie's psychology lecture, she is actively listening and watching the professor go over a new concept. What form of memory is she using before encoding? 

• Short Term Memory

• Sensory Memory 

• Long Term Memory 

• Communicative Memory 

• Procedural Memory 

Dory from Finding Nemo suffers from memory loss, unable to create new memories. She can however recall older memories just fine. What would a psychologist diagnose her with?

• Dissociative Amnesia

• Traumatic Amnesia 

• Retrograde Amnesia 

• Anterograde Amnesia 

• Disassociative Fugue

Jane is volunteering to be part of an experiment. The experiment is testing the effects of coffee on heart rate. Half of the volunteers drink coffee, half do not. Jane is in the group that will NOT drink coffee. Jane is in the...

• Adverse group

• Control group

• Experimental group

• Standard group

• Null group

Adam wants to run an experiment about studying the effects of daily stress on the dreams of teenagers. His experiment needs to be approved by the...

• Conventional Review Board

• Psychology Panel 

• Association of Psychology

• Center of Psychology Panel

• Institutional Review Board

When shopping at a store you come across a shirt that you really like but you don't have enough money to pay for it. You have the urge to steal it but ultimately you decide against it. What most likely stopped you from stealing the shirt?

• Id

• Ego

• Super Ego

• feel good do good phenomenon

• reciprocal determinism

Tom's father just died a couple weeks ago. Since then he has been more depressed than usual and cry's almost everyday. When his sister points out that he has been acting more sad recently his response is "no im not its you! your the depressed one you cry almost everyday!" which defense mechanism is Tom most likely demonstrating?

• regression

• projection

• repression

• displacement

• denial

When Keon's mom was pregnant with him, she'd often drink a lot.  As a result of this, Keon was born with heart disease.  What best explains the cause of Keon's condition?

• Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD)

• habituation

• Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) 

• imprinting

• insight learning

China is a four-month-old baby.  She sees her mother leave the room and immediately starts crying; but as soon as she sees her mother returns, she stops crying and enjoys the company of her mother.  What answer choice would best explain China's actions? 

• Insecure Attachment 

• Temperament 

• Basic Trust 

• Secure Attachment 

• The Strange Situation

Mark pushed Gena into a freezing cold pool at a pool party. Gena began shivering, however, after a few minutes, she forgot she was cold. This was most likely caused by:

• Selective Attention

• Top-down Processing

• Sensory Adaptation

• Vestibular Sense

• Gate-Control Theory

As Robert got older, he noticed his hearing worsening. For his 75th birthday, he went to a concert and didn’t think to wear earplugs. After that, his hearing never recovered. This shows:

• Sensorineural Hearing Loss

• Conductive Hearing Loss

• Kinesthesia

• Sensory Adaptation

• Transduction