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AP Psychology Famous Theories

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which theory states that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished?

a)

Drive Reduction Theory

b)

Social Learning Theory

c)

Signal Detection Theory

d)

Two Factory Theory

2.

Which of the following is Schachter’s theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal?

a)

Gate-Control Theory

b)

Social Learning Theory

c)

Opponent-Process Theor

d)

Two-Factor Theory

3.

What is the theory that states opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black)

a)

Trichromatic Theory

b)

Place Theory

c)

Opponent-Process Theory

d)

Signal Detection Theory

4.

What is the theory that concludes the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch?

a)

Auditory Processing Theory

b)

Frequency Theory

c)

Gate Control Theory

d)

James-Lange Theory

5.

This definition explains which theory below - predicts how and when we detect the presences of a faint stimulus amid background stimulation

a)

Signal Detection Theory

b)

Figure Ground Theory

c)

Place Theory

d)

Frequency Theory

6.

Which theory explains when links the pitch we hear with the location where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated.

a)

Place Theory

b)

Trichromatic Theory

c)

Signal Detection Theory

d)

Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

7.

What is the theory that proposes the idea that psychological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the needs?

a)

Two Factor Theory

b)

Drive Reduction Theory

c)

Cannon Bard Theory

d)

James-Lange Theory

8.

Which theory states an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion ?

a)

Social Learning Theory

b)

Two Factor Theory

c)

Gate-Control Theory

d)

Cannon-Bard Theory

9.

The theory that proposes that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

a)

James-Lange Theory

b)

Cannon-Bard Theory

c)

Drive Reduction Theory

d)

Gate Control Theory

10.

Which theory states that children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be male or female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly ?

a)

Social Learning Theory

b)

Opponent Process Theory

c)

Gender-Schema Theory

d)

Two Factor Theory

11.

This theory suggests that the retina contains three different color receptors--one most sensitive to red, one to green, Trichromatic Theory one to blue--which when stimulated in a combination, can produce the perception of any color.

a)

Signal Detection Theory

b)

Cannon-Bard Theory

c)

Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

d)

Retinal Placement Theory

12.

Which theory says that the spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain ?

a)

Peripheral Sensation Theory

b)

Gate Control Theory

c)

Neurotransmission Delay Theory

d)

Frequency Reduction Theory