AP Psychology Quiz

What is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment?

• Sensation

• Cognition

• Perception

• Imagination

Which subtopic of AP Psychology focuses on how we select, organize, and interpret sensory information?

• Learning

• Perception

• Cognition

• Consciousness

What is the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors?

• learning

• teaching

• unlearning

• forgetting

Which subtopic of AP Psychology focuses on the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?

• Social Psychology

• Behavioral Psychology

• Developmental Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology

What is the process of retaining and retrieving information over time?

• memory

• storage

• forgetting

• imagination

Which subtopic of AP Psychology focuses on the process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses?

• Social Psychology

• Learning and Conditioning

• Developmental Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology

What is the term for a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience?

• learning

• evolution

• adaptation

• instinct

Which subtopic of AP Psychology focuses on the mental processes of acquiring, storing, and using information?

• Social Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology

• Behavioral Psychology

• Developmental Psychology

What is the term for the process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information in the memory system?

• memory retrieval

• memory storage

• memory consolidation

• memory encoding