AP Psychology Unit 2 Review-MCQs

AP Psychology Unit 2 Review-MCQs

11th Grade

30 Qs

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AP Psychology Unit 2 Review-MCQs

AP Psychology Unit 2 Review-MCQs

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ANGELA BRILEY

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30 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A study on memory retention investigates how stress impacts the ability to form new episodic memories by measuring changes in synaptic strength before and after introducing a stressor. Which neurological process crucial for forming long-term memories might this stress be affecting?

Long-term potentiation

Neurogenesis

Synaptic pruning

Neural oscillation

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When people fail to notice that a friend got a haircut, despite having just had a conversation about haircuts, this exemplifies:

Change blindness

Inattentional blindness

Functional fixedness

Semantic memory

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Consider a scenario where after witnessing a car accident, a person remembers the car as being faster than it actually was. This memory distortion can be attributed to the influence of:

Mood-congruent memory

Misinformation effect

Retroactive interference

Imagination inflation

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A psychological experiment requires participants to solve problems both in new and conventional ways. The experimenter is most likely studying which cognitive function?

Divergent thinking

Convergent thinking

Functional fixedness

Semantic memory

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In a recent environmental psychology study, researchers found that individuals are more likely to recycle in contexts where they previously did so. This behavior can best be explained by which concept?

Context effects

Gestalt psychology

Perceptual set

Visual perceptual constancies

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During a trial, if jurors are swayed by how a lawyer frames whether a glass is half empty or half full, they are likely falling prey to which cognitive bias?

Framing effect

Representativeness heuristic

Availability heuristic

Gambler’s fallacy

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In an experiment, when participants are asked whether more words start with the letter R or have R as the third letter, most incorrectly choose the first option due to:

Representativeness heuristic

Availability heuristic

Anchoring bias

Gambler's fallacy

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