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2009 AP Practice Exam1. B adaptation

Think sensory adaptation would get you to go ice swimming?2. D Social

3. A - Provide a set of diagnostic categories for classifyingpsychological disorders

4. E - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

5. D - Humanistic

6. A - Selective attention

7. C - Stimulus generalization

8. C - Cross - Sectional

9. C - Intrinsic motivation

10. D - Perception

11. C Classical conditioning

The pigeon will only peck the middle circle at a stimulus!12. C Social Psychology

13. D Gendermaladaptiveunjustifiabledisturbingatypical 14. B - Environment plays an important role in determining IQ

15. D - Validity

16. A prevent spread of epileptic seizures

17. C - maturation

18. E - Behavioral

19. Rational Emotive Therapy

20. B occipital and temporal lobes

visionhearingtouchdecisions21. C an internal locus of control

Where are you at the crossroads of motivation????22. A average about 25 hours

With no time cues23. B 10 The standard deviation is the square root of the variance.24. D help the client in the therapy gain new insight into himself or herself

Will he ever gain insight into his problems?25. D - 84

706084%26. B sodium & potassium

27. A correlation

28. B - Hippocampus

29. B semicircular canals

30. D - alcohol

31. E an experiment

32. C recognition of self

33. C the monkey interprets the bell as a signal that the air puff will follow34. A intelligence testing

35. D - If permitted to choose their own piece of music, they will select moderately difficult pieces that they can master if they practice them consciously

36. C diffusion of responsibility

37. A confirmation biashttp://caveofmagic.com/cardtrick2.htm

Pick a card..Did he guess it??38. B a mental construct

39. Conditioned taste aversion for the substance

Rat fed one flavor. Then novel water (sugar) is introduced. The novel substance precedes radiation which leads to nausea. Later subject given choice (original or sugar water).Rat will avoid the sugar water.40. A cats have a higher proportion of rods to cones

41. D - Temperament

42. E observational learning

Banduras Bobo Doll Study43. E self-actualization needs

44. B - projective

TATRorschach45. E - behaviorism

John Watson and Little Albert46. B - neuron

47. A - expectations48. B adolescents follow fads in dress and hairstyleAccording to Asch: results suggest that conformity can be influenced both by a need to fit in and a belief that other people are smarter or better informed.

49. C all humans are by nature good50. C cerebral cortex

51. E Alyse cannot remember any details of what happened right before her car accident

52. B a hallucination

53. C animals may be biologically prepared to learn some things over other things54. A enlarged fluid filled areas in the brain

55. D - Unresolved experiences of loss from childhood56. B - Hypothalamus

57. A - fixation

58. C - Behavioral59. B systematic desensitization

60. D set point

61. C a resistant or ambivalent attachment style

62. D physiological arousal and cognitive assessment

63. B 2, 7, 9, 22The higher the rangethe higher the standard deviation64. A - somatoform

65. D Classical conditioning

66. D - unobservable67. C - deindividuation

68. B - Humanistic69. A General adaptation syndrome

70. E The correlation betweenscores of participants who take 2 forms of the test is +0.90The higher the correlationthe higher the reliability71. D the use of a heuristic72. E absolute thresholdVision: A single candle flame from 30 miles on a dark, clear nightHearing: The tick of a watch from 20 feet in total quietSmell: 1 drop of perfume in a 6-room apartmentTaste: 1 teaspoon sugar in 2 gallons of waterTouch: The wing of a bee on your cheek, dropped from 1 cm73. D - procedural

74. B blocks the reuptake of neurotransmitter serotonin

75. C social loafing76. B - Biological

77. D available, but not accessible

78. B token economy79. C concrete operations

80. B cognitive dissonance

81. B humans are genetically programmed to ensure that there is a new generation of the species82. D signal detection theory83. D - intensity

84. E - Auditory canal, eardrum, ossicles, oval window, cochlea

85. A - cognitive86. E proactive interference

87. E self serving bias

Occurs when individual attributes positive outcomes to internal factors and negative outcomes to external factorsPeople regularly take credit for successes but refuse to accept responsibility for failuresIf I do well on this testI deserve the creditIf I do poorly on this test, Mr. Bruno did a bad job teaching88. E superordinate goals

89. D an inability to feel empathy for others and a lack of remorse for actions that harm others

90. B Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory91. D - acetylcholine

92. C

93. B

94. A situational factors

Think they know I am having a heart attack and driving myself to the hospital!!!Crazy driver!!!!!!!!!!95. A language use is creative

96. C flavor of drink & time of consumption

97. B participants spelling test scores98. C flavor of drink & time of consumption99. A stage 2 sleep

100. C - improve