AP Psychology Review

Proposed a hierarchy of needs that suggests a strive toward self-actualization when other needs are met.

• Alfred Kinsey

• Masters & Johnson

• Abraham Maslow

• Paul Ekman

acting in a childlike way to get attention

• repression

• regression

• displacement

• projection

What does it mean to self-actualize?

• to find love

• to have security

• to reach one's full potential

• to meet the basic need (optional)

Dr. Maki questioned a group of 9th graders, including Evelyn and Samuel, about their career aspirations. This is an example of a(n)

• Experiment

• Survey

• Naturalistic observation

• Correlational study

Which of the following summaries best describes operant conditioning?

• Examine how an organism interprets an event, and then modify the event to better match the organism's cognitive interpretation of the event.

• Rewarding an organism will strengthen the researcher's relationship with that organism, and the organism will be more likely to do what the researcher wants.

• When a researcher finds a stimulus that automatically causes an organism to do something, he or she pairs that stimulus with a new, neutral stimulus.

• A researcher figures out what he or she wants the organism to do and then gives the organism something it wants when it gets close to that behavior.

• Punish an organism via conditioned stimuli until the behavior conforms to desired parameters.

Which of the following is likely to occur when the conditioned stimulus is presented many times without the unconditioned stimulus?

• discrimination

• shaping

• spontaneous recovery

• extinction

• overjustification

Professor Wilikins is demonstrating principles of learning to her class. She gently blows air into the eye of a student volunteer while saying the word "puff," and the puff of air makes the student blink. After three pairings, the student blinks when Professor Wilikins says "puff" but does not blow any air toward the student. What psychological principle is Professor Wilikins demonstrating?

• operant conditioning

• semantic conditioning

• latent learning

• expectancy effect

• classical conditioning

Who is known for the theory of cognitive development in children?

• Jean Piaget

• Sigmund Freud

• Erik Erikson

• B.F. Skinner

Which psychologist is associated with the concept of the 'collective unconscious'?

• Carl Jung

• Alfred Adler

• Karen Horney

• Erich Fromm

What is the main focus of humanistic psychology?

• Behavioral responses

• Unconscious motives

• Self-actualization

• Cognitive processes