AP Psych Exam Review 3A

James is hearing impaired and has been looking for solutions to help his hearing. Hisdoctor has recommended that James get a cochlear implant to help. This indicates thatJames has what kind of audition issue?

• Astigmatism

• Sensorineural hearing loss

• External auditory canal blockage

• Transduction

• Conductive hearing loss

Mark's trainer has him take ice baths after his basketball games. When he gets in thebath his heart rate spikes because the water is very cold, yet after 3-4 minutes his heart rateslows down and his body does not feel as cold. This is an example of which phenomenon?

• Sensory deprivation

• Change blindness

• Selective attention

• Sensory accommodation

• Sensory adaptation

Janet was abused as a child. As an adult she has absolutely no recollection of any of these events. This would be an example of what Freudian defense mechanism?

• Identification

• Displacement 

• Repression

• Projection

• Regression

Thomas has a hard time believing in himself. He is extremely intelligent but never accomplishes anything due to his self perception. Thomas has a(n).

• Superiority complex

• Compensating

• Mother complex

• Inferiority complex

• Neurotic complex

Sarah is told to memorize a sequence of numbers that is 6 numbers long. In order to memorize the numbers, she repeats them over and over in her head. What is this an example of? 

• Chunking

• Method of loci

• Rehearsal

• Mnemonics

• Automatic Processing

Mr Thompson has a hard time remembering his old students' names because he has to learn 200 new students' names each year. Which of the following is the reason behind this? 

• Proactive Interference 

• Retroactive Interference

• Retrograde Amnesia

• Anterograde Amnesia 

• Source Amnesia

The researcher wants to gain a better understanding of a certain lizard species. He is closely observing one of these lizards in its natural habitat and is very careful not to interfere with anything. what is this an example of?

• Naturalistic Observation

• case theory/case study

• Nature-nurture issue

• Target population

• Independent variable

A patient is given a simple sugar pill by a doctor to treat his daily headaches. the patient believes that the pill is a serious medicine only used for very intense headache treatment. after just a few days of taking the sugar pill, he stops experiencing headaches. what effect is this an example of?

• Testing effect

• Spacing effect

• Serial position effect

• Placebo effect

• Misinformation effect

Sam is designing an experiment for his science class. If Sam wants to make his findings apotentially valid experiment, what does he need to make sure that his study is able to bereplicated?

• Correlational research

• Operational Definition

• The same participants

• A hypothesis

• Works cited page

Mary was asked to participate in an experiment that was studying the effects of caffeineon students’ focus in the classrooms at her school, but Mary has ADHD and is onstimulants that keep her focused despite the caffeine. Mary’s circumstance in regards tothe experiment would best be described as:

• Confounding variable

• Cognition malfunction

• Illusory correlation

• Hindsight bias

• Experimenter bias