
AP Psychology Vocabulary List #4 2025
Authored by Brittany Shackleford
Social Studies
9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A neuron’s bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body.
Axon
Cell body
Dendrites
Myelin sheath
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The part of a neuron that contains the nucleus; the cell’s life-support center.
Axon
Cell body
Soma
Dendrites
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A long neuron extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands.
Axon
Myelin sheath
Dendrite
Terminal button
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A layer of fatty tissue that segmentally encases the axons of some neurons, enabling faster transmission of impulses.
Axon
Cell body
Dendrites
Myelin sheath
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system.
Neurotransmitter
Glial cell
Neuron
Axon
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.
Independent variable
Control variable
Confounding variable
Dependent variable
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment.
Confounding variable
Control variable
Random variable
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