AP Psych Exam Review 4B

Anna's mom tells her to go get groceries and tells her a list of things to buy but Anna can only remember the first and last thing her mom said. This is best explained by.

• short term memory

• serial position effect

• working memory

• proactive interference

• chunking

Katie decides she wants to do a cartwheel and does the cartwheel. What part of the brain is responsible for this action

• limbic system

• cerebral cortex

• motor cortex

• nervous system

• reflexes 

After waking up Monday morning Tommy needed to remember what test he had today, and decide which books he needed to bring to school. Which two parts of his brain would be most involved in this task?

• Frontal lobe and amygdala

• Frontal lobe and hippocampus

• Amygdala and occipital lobe

• wernicke's area and pons

• Medulla oblongata and broca's area

Arjun is having trouble sleeping, it takes him over an hour to get to sleep and he wakes up often/will not sleep for long. What part(s) of Arjun's brain may not be operating correctly?

• The hypothalamus

• olfactory bulb

• medulla

• Temporal lobe

• Pons and thalamus

Lisa got straight A's on her report card and found twenty bucks randomly, so when she was walking down the street she decided to help an old person cross the road. What would explain this action?

• intrinsic motivation

• feel-good, do-good phenomenon 

• adaption level phenomenon 

• catharsis theory

• tend and befriend

Charles is having trouble deciding about which college he is going to. He is considering things like class size and location. What conflict is Charles faced with?

• Approach-avoidance conflict

• Avoidance-avoidance conflict

• Approach-approach conflict

• Schachter's two-factor theory

• multiple approach-avoidance conflict

5 Year old Kevin shouts out from the 2nd floor for his mom who is in the first floor asking her if she likes his drawing, which she responds with yes and he believes that she sees it and likes it. What explains this behavior?

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Conservation

• Egocentrism

• Abstract Thinking

• Social Learning

Doctors at Johnson hospital are having trouble understanding Ben’s brain activity. The doctors decide to hook up measuring devices to Ben’s scalp to measure his brain waves. Which piece of equipment are they using?

• CT Scan

• EEG

• MEG

• MRI

• fMRI

ecky decided to go on a 5 mile run for the first time. When she wasdone, she was breathing heavily and her heart was beating fast. What part of thebrain contributed to these actions?

• Old brain

• Pons

• Medula

• Reticular Formation

• Thalamus

While taking a nap in class, Jean shows irregular breathing and twitching. What iscausing Jean’s body to react in these ways?

• She is in Stage 1 of sleep

• She is in Stage 2 of sleep

• She is in Stage 3 of sleep

• She is in REM Sleep

• She took Barbiturates