AP Psychology Unit 13

Which researcher/psychologist came up with this kind of graph that represents the relationship between forgetting and time?

• Loftus

• Ebbinghaus

• Binet

• Spearman

Susan thinks she does worse on tests that are administered on Fridays, when in reality her test scores are not influenced by the day of the week. This situation is an example of an:

• sublimation

• illusory correlation

• projection

• hindsight bias

Before school, you watch a show about rabbits. Later, in Psych class, you view this image and easily identify it as a rabbit instead of a duck. What explains this phenomenon?

• habituation

• priming

• discrimination

• conditioned response

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

Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event.

• Misinformation effect

• Source misattribution

• Priming

• Confirmation bias

What is the primary focus of social psychology?

• The study of individual differences

• The study of mental disorders

• The study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another

• The study of human evolution

Which of the following best describes the concept of 'groupthink'?

• The tendency for people to exert less effort when working in a group

• The tendency for group members to conform to a consensus decision without critical evaluation

• The tendency for people to perform better on tasks in the presence of others

• The tendency for people to change their opinions to match those of a group

What is the 'bystander effect'?

• The tendency for individuals to help others in emergency situations

• The tendency for individuals to be less likely to help someone in need when other people are present

• The tendency for people to conform to the behavior of others

• The tendency for people to obey authority figures

Which term describes the discomfort we feel when our thoughts are inconsistent with our actions?

• Cognitive dissonance

• Social loafing

• Group polarization

• Attribution error

What is the 'foot-in-the-door' phenomenon?

• The tendency to agree to a large request after agreeing to a small one

• The tendency to refuse a large request after refusing a small one

• The tendency to agree to a small request after refusing a large one

• The tendency to refuse a small request after agreeing to a large one