AP Psychology Alternative Final Review

Most children believe their school is better than the other schools in town. This best illustrates:

• the just-world phenomenon

• scapegoating

• the fundamental attribution error

• the reciprocity norm

• ingroup bias

Parents who are demanding and yet sensitively responsive to their children are said to be:

• authoritarian

• conservative

• egocentric

• permissive

• authoritative

The idea that an emotion-arousing stimulus is simultaneously routed to the cortex and to the sympathetic nervous system is central to the:

• James-Lange theory

• relative deprivation principle

• two-factor theory

• Cannon-Bard theory

• catharsis hypothesis

The medical model of psychologically disordered behavior is most likely to be criticized for neglecting the importance of:

• anxiety and depression

• social circumstances and psychological factors

• biological evolution

• the DSM-IV

• genetically influenced abnormalities

As the retinal image of a horse galloping toward you becomes larger, it is unlikely that the horse will appear to grow larger. This best illustrates the phenomenon of:

• visual capture

• size constancy

• closure

• convergence

• linear perspective

News about the supposed effects of briefly presented messages on moviegoers' consumption of popcorn and Coca-Cola involved false claims regarding:

• parallel processing

• difference thresholds

• kinesthesis

• synaesthesia

• subliminal stimulation

The knee-jerk reflex is controlled by interneurons in the:

• limbic system

• spinal cord

• brainstem

• cerebellum

• frontal lobe

According to Freud, the part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the:

• collective unconscious

• ego

• self-concept

• id

• superego

Meta-analysis refers to:

• a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies

• the use of a variety of therapeutic techniques in the treatment of a single client

• counseling and treatment of troubled individuals by friends, family, and other nonprofessionals

• a procedure for identifying the common factors that underlie many different disorders

• the technique of simply rephrasing much of what a client says during the course of therapy

Which of the following represents the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

• sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

• preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational, sensorimotor

• sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational

• preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational

• concrete operational, sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational