AP Psych Mid-term Review

Front

Which of the following will be the most alike?
Options:
Fraternal twins raised in the same environment.
Identical twins raised in different environments.
Siblings raised in the same environment.
Identical twins raised in the same environment.

Back

Identical twins raised in the same environment.

Front

What is top-down processing?

Back

The process of interpreting information using prior knowledge and past experiences.

Front

According to gestalt psychology, what is the principle of closure?

Back

The idea that when something is incomplete, our mind will fill in the missing information.

Front

What is sensory adaptation?

Back

The process of becoming less responsive to a continuous stimulus.

Front

What is the switch board operator in the brain for all senses except smell? Options: amygdala, thalamus, frontal lobe

Back

thalamus

Front

What does Broca's area do?

Back

Allows production of speech.

Front

A person assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?

Back

The serial position effect

Front

Which perspective would most likely explain anger as "an outlet for unconscious hostility"?

Back

Psychodynamic

Front

____________ refers to biological/genetic predispositions' impact on human traits

Back

nature

Front

In a normal distribution of scores, approximately what percentage of all scores will occur within 1 standard deviation of the mean?

Back

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