AP Psychology Unit 7

Personality is best defined as an individual's

• characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

• most noticeable characteristics.

• biologically inherited temperament.

• hidden thoughts and emotions.

Methods used to avoid recognizing ideas or emotions that may cause personal anxiety is the definition for...

• Fighting

• Defense mechanisms

• Thinking

• Creative solutions

Maslow explained that people fail to reach self-actualization because...

• They fail to satisfy more basic needs.

• They fail to discover their talents.

• They spend too much time on snapchat.

• They fear becoming who they were meant to be.

The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ________ one another.

• understand, feel about, and behave toward

• think about, influence, and relate to

• observe, understand, and communicate with

• understand, predict, and control

What is the term for the mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory information?

• Perception

• Sensation

• Cognition

• Intuition

Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing emotions?

• Cerebellum

• Amygdala

• Hippocampus

• Thalamus

What is the psychological term for a mental shortcut that allows people to solve problems and make judgments quickly?

• Algorithm

• Heuristic

• Bias

• Schema

Which theory suggests that emotions are the result of physiological responses to external stimuli?

• James-Lange Theory

• Cannon-Bard Theory

• Schachter-Singer Theory

• Lazarus Theory

What is the term for the tendency to attribute others' behaviors to internal factors while attributing our own behaviors to external factors?

• Self-serving bias

• Fundamental attribution error

• Actor-observer bias

• Confirmation bias

Which psychological concept refers to the discomfort we feel when our beliefs and actions are inconsistent?

• Cognitive dissonance

• Social loafing

• Groupthink

• Conformity