1. AP Psychology Final Exam Review

2. What type of psychologists are Watson and Skinner?
Behaviorist

3. What defines categories of mental disorders in terms of symptoms?
DSM - V

4. What type of psychologist would explain that humans desire social interaction, social acceptance, and social affiliation due to a need for survival?
Evolutionary

5. The part of the brain most closely associated with regulation of hunger, thirst, and body temperature is the?
Hypothalamus

6. The part of the brain most closely associated with memory is the?
Hippocampus

7. The part of the brain that deals with emotion such as fear and aggression is the?
Amygdala

8. Why is the corpus callosum sometimes cut?
To prevent seizures

9. Which lobe of the brain deals with vision?
Occipital

10. Which lobe of the brain deals with hearing?
Temporal

11. Cocaine is what type of psychoactive drug?
Stimulant

12. The biological clock that operates in human beings to adjust their functioning to night-and-day periodicity is referred to as
Circadian rhythem

13. Our awareness of ourselves and our environment is called?
Consciousness

14. Specific stimuli have a major effect on development that they do not produce at other times during development are called?
Critical periods

15. Who’s experiment with Thesus monkeys and surrogate mothers emphasized the importance of contact comfort?
Harry Harlow

16. Not being able to feel your glasses on your face after a while is an example of?
Sensory adaptation

17. Receptors for kinesthesis are located in the?
Semi-circular canals

18. Although Lucy could barely hear the person on the other side of Maria whisper, Maria could not hear him at all. For hearing, compared to Maria, Lucy has a?
Lower absolute threshold

19. What experiment by Watson and Rayner showed that human emotions such as fear are subject to classical conditioning?
Little Albert

20. Sally watches her brother Joe clean his room to receive allowance so Sally cleans her room. What type of learning is this?
Observational

21. After watching cartoons in which characters hit, punch, and kick other characters, nursery school children engaged in more aggressive behavior than after watching Scooby Doo. The observation best supports
Social learning theory

22. What type of thinkers generate multiple solutions to a problem?
Divergent

23. What is Whorf’s linguistic determinism?
Language determines how we think

24. A person memorizing a list was asked to recall it one week after memorizing it, they can remember the first and last words of the list, but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?
Serial position effect

25. What type of test is the AP Exam in Psychology?
Achievement test

26. According to Master’s and Johnson, what do men experience after orgasm?
A refractory period

27. Because celebrities tend to wear a particular brand of athletic shoe, a people buy a pair of shoes of the same brand. Such behavior demonstrates which of the following social psychological concepts?
Conformity

28. What psychological study in the field of social psychology met with the greatest criticism about the ethical issues involved?
Milgram’s study on obedience

29. Which perspective focuses on the unconscious?
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic

30. In general, neo-Freudians such as Adler and Horney accepted many of Freud’s views but placed more emphasis than he did on?
Social interaction

31. What part of the personality acts on the pleasure principle?Id

32. What part of the personality acts as the conscience?
Superego

33. In the movie Shrek 2, Shrek’s father-in-law (the King) did not like Shrek because he was an Ogre, in reality the King didn’t like himself because he was really a frog. This is an example of which Freudian defense mechanism?
Projection

34. Kim returns home to make sure she has locked the door several times, what disorder does Kim most likely have?
OCD

35. What is used to treat SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)?
Light therapy

36. What neurotransmitters has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia?
Dopamine

37. What neurotransmitter has been linked to depression?
Serotonin

38. As a child, Jesus often skipped school and engaged in repeated acts of vandalism and petty theft. As an adult, he has been arrested for running a dishonest investment company. The most likely diagnosis for Jesus’s current behavior is
Anti-social personality disorder