AP Psychology Midterm Review

A disadvantage of longitudinal studies is that

• participants who drop out during the course of the study may be different in important ways from ones who do not drop out

• differences observed among participants of different ages are usually due to differences in the environment in which they were reared

• men and women confront different developmental crises in the course of their lives because of their different social roles

• personality traits do not remain constant across the life span

• unfamiliarity with testing situations can put older participants at a disadvantage

An illusory correlation is best defined as a

• correlation of 0

• causal relationship

• correlation of −1.0

• perceived relationship where one does not exist

• correlation of +1.0

Which of the following is the correct sequence of the neural chain of events set in motion by an environmental stimulus?

• Receptors, efferent neurons, interneurons, afferent neurons, effectors

• Effectors, interneurons, receptors, afferent neurons, efferent neurons

• Effectors, receptors, afferent neurons, efferent neurons, interneurons

• Interneurons, effectors, receptors, afferent neurons, efferent neurons

• Receptors, afferent neurons, interneurons, efferent neurons, effectors

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Students from a journalism class ask only their friends to participate in a school newspaper survey and neglect to ask the rest of the student body. The journalism students' data may not be generalizable due to...

• A lack of debriefing

• Sampling bias

• Participant bias

• Social desirability bias

• Placebo effects

• Cerebellum
• Brain Stem
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

In the figure above, where do selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have their initial effect?

• A

• B

• C

• D

• E

A sound is often detected by one ear more intensely and a fraction of a second earlier than it is detected by the other ear. These cues help individuals determine the

• pitch

• absolute threshold

• location of the source

• frequency

If you are expecting an important text message, you are much more likely to notice the sound as soon as the message arrives. This best illustrates...

• priming

• signal detection theory

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• Weber's law

What does this picture show?

• similarity
• closure
• figure ground
• Connectedness

Which of the following types of cells are located in the brain's occipital lobe?

• cochlea cells

• feature detectors

• rods and cones

• bipolar cells