AP Psychology Unit 2 Review

Sophia meets a new coworker, Liam, who is quiet, wears glasses, and loves reading. She assumes he must work in the office of her company, but Liam actually works in the warehouse driving forklifts, loading shipping trucks, etc.

• Availability Heuristic

• Representative Heuristic

Early approach/school of thought that focused in the elements or building blocks of consciousness/mind

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Consciousness

• Imperialism

Which research method involves observing subjects in their natural environment without interference?

• A) Experiment

• B) Survey

• C) Naturalistic Observation

• D) Case Study

What is the term for a variable that the experimenter manipulates in an experiment?

• A) Dependent Variable

• B) Independent Variable

• C) Control Variable

• D) Confounding Variable

In a double-blind experiment, who is unaware of the treatment being given?

• A) Only the participants

• B) Only the researchers

• C) Both participants and researchers

• D) Neither participants nor researchers

What is the placebo effect?

• A) A real treatment causing no effect

• B) A fake treatment causing a perceived effect

• C) A real treatment causing a real effect

• D) A fake treatment causing no effect

Which statistical measure indicates the average score in a distribution?

• A) Median

• B) Mode

• C) Mean

• D) Range

What is the term for a testable prediction derived from a theory?

• A) Hypothesis

• B) Variable

• C) Experiment

• D) Observation

Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing visual information?

• A) Frontal Lobe

• B) Parietal Lobe

• C) Occipital Lobe

• D) Temporal Lobe

What is the main function of the myelin sheath?

• A) To protect the neuron

• B) To speed up neural impulses

• C) To store neurotransmitters

• D) To connect neurons