AP - Group Set 5

Which of the following best summarizes a view of the contact hypothesis?

• Contact with someone every day for more than 2 weeks increases the chances of your feeling interpersonal attraction

• Contact with someone of a different social group tends to reinforce your own biases

• Conflict resolution requires frequent contact and cooperation

• Contact with a different group may reduce prejudice against members of the group, but it could also increase prejudice or leave it unchanged

• Contact is a diffuse form of altruism

The Eysenck Personality Inventory measures people based on their

• Genetic composition

• Self-efficacy

• Sensory perception

• Cognitive responses

• Traits

A psychoanalytic therapist would be most likely to use which of the following to treat depression?

• Free association

• Prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

• Hypnosis

• Flooding

• Empathetic understanding

Ivan's aunt had a stroke last week. Ivan's family has been told the Broca's area in her brain is affected. What symptoms is she likely to have?

• Loss of ability to see

• Loss of ability to hear

• Loss of ability to understand what she hears

• Frequent repetition of what is said to her

• Loss of ability to speak

Aiden has the highest grades in his class, plays the cello in the City Orchestra, and is popular among his classmates. When he shows up to help build apartments for the homeless, the group leader is startled to find him clumsy and unable to hammer a nail without hitting his own thumb. The leader surprised likely results from which of the following?

• Intersectionality

• Behavioral dissonance

• Gender attribution

• Confirmation bias

• Halo effect

Karen troubled down the steps of the library, spraining her ankle. She began to cry, as her ankle hurt and she couldn't walk without limping. She was terribly embarrassed, as at least 15 people were hanging out in front of the library and saw her fall. No one moved to help or comfort Karen. What accounts for the fact that none of these people offered her any assistance?

• Out group homogeneity

• Social inhibition

• Bystander effect

• Dehumanization

• Rosenthal effect

Peter is studying for a biology test. He remembers the information much better when he actually goes into the biology classroom, rather than sitting in the library. This is most likely an example of

• Proactive interference

• Chunking

• Procedural memory

• Maintenance rehearsal

• Context dependent memory

Kristen and Dave are driving to a restaurant in the fog. They see the restaurants neon sign in the distance, which they think is about 1 mile down the road. It turns out to just be a half a mile. What explains the difference between their perception and reality?

• Vanishing point

• Motion parallax

• Ariel perspective

• Stereopsis

• Retinal convergence

If you design a single blind experiment, which of the following is true?

• The experiment's subjects know whether they are in an experimental group or in a control group, but the researchers do not

• The experiment's subjects do not know whether they are in an experimental group or in a control group, but the researchr does

• Both the researchers and the experimental subjects know which group the subjects have been assigned to

• Neither the researchers nor the experimental subjects know whether the latter have been assigned to an experimental group or a control group

• The Observers are unable to see the responses or the behaviors of the experimental group during the course of the experimental manipulation

Despite problems with addiction, which of the following explains why narcotics like oxycodone relieve pain?

• They work very similar to endogenous serotonin

• They work very similarly to endogenous acetylcholine

• They work very similarly to endogenous endorphins

• They work very similarly to endogenous adenosine

• They work very similarly to endogenous norepinephrine