AP Psychology Exam

Compliance strategy that suggest that suggests after people refuse a large request, they will look more favorably upon a follow up request that seem much more reasonable

• foot in the door strategy

• groupthink

• door in the face strategy

• reciprocity strategy

This lobe receives and processes visual information and then sends it to other parts of the brain for further processing and storage.

• Occipital Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

• Temporal Lobe

• Frontal Lobe

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming

• chunking

• encoding

• storing

a neural center that is located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage. 

• hippocampus

• fornix

•  storage

•  mnemonics

Despite overwhelming and highly publicized evidence that Senator McEwan was guilty of serious political corruption and misconduct, many who had supported her in past elections remained convinced of her political integrity. Their reaction best illustrates

• fixation.

• the representativeness heuristic.

• belief perseverance.

• the availability heuristic.

• the framing effect.

Which compliance strategy suggests that after people refuse a large request, they will look more favorably upon a follow-up request that seems much more reasonable?

• Foot-in-the-door strategy

• Groupthink

• Door-in-the-face strategy

• Reciprocity strategy

Despite overwhelming and highly publicized evidence that Senator McEwan was guilty of serious political corruption and misconduct, many who had supported her in past elections remained convinced of her political integrity. Their reaction best illustrates which psychological concept?

• Fixation

• The representativeness heuristic

• Belief perseverance

• The availability heuristic

• The framing effect

What is the term for the phenomenon where individuals in a group setting tend to go along with the group consensus rather than independently evaluating information?

• Social loafing

• Groupthink

• Conformity

• Deindividuation

Which psychological theory suggests that people are motivated to reduce discomfort arising from conflicting thoughts or beliefs?

• Cognitive dissonance theory

• Social identity theory

• Attribution theory

• Self-determination theory

In the context of social psychology, 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