AP Psychology 1st Semester Final Exam Review (Units 0-3)

When scores are "bunched up"in the center of a distribution, the

• mean will be relatively low

• standard deviation will be relatively low

• correlation coefficiaent will be a negative number

• standard deviation will be relatively high

Problem solving is one type of cognitive activity in which we all engage.  Which of the following cognitive tendencies is seen to be an obstacle to problem solving?

• availability heuristic
• insight
• prototype confusion
• confirmation bias

The condition that exists when the probability that the findings are not due to chance

• statistical significance
• experimenter bias
• confounding variables

Learning the the United States stopped importing all oil and energy from Russia but not be able to identify where you learned this information is an example of

• retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Source amnesia

• constructed memory processing

Which of the following correctly describes how to randomly select a representative high school population?

• picking every fifth person with a high gpa from schools that are located in southern states

• selecting every other person from every student in multiple high schools around the country

• selecting 50 people from every school in the country with staff input

• selecting 5 students from every middle, elementary and high school through drawing straws

• selecting six students and staff from a lottery system at schools nationwide

During the night, Alicia stops breathing repeatedly, frequently gasps for air, and snores loudly at regular intervals. Alicia is most likely suffering from which of the following conditions?

• The REM rebound effect

• Sleep apnea

• Night terrors

• Insomnia

• Narcolepsy

A, an and ill are all examples of:

• Phonemes
• Morphemes
• Syntax
• Grammar

Purchasing state lottery tickets is reinforced with monetary winnings on a ________ schedule.

• fixed-interval

• variable-interval

• fixed-ratio

• variable-ratio

The technique of strengthening behavior by reinforcing successive approximations is called

• positive reinforcement
• negative reinforcement
• distributed practice
• modeling
• shaping

Just before something scary happens in a horror film, they often play scary-sounding music. When I hear the music, I tense up in anticipation of the scary event. In this situation, the music serves as a(n)

• US
• CS
• UR
• CR
• NR