Frequently Missed Questions - AP Psych

Responses extinguish fastest when they are learned through which type of reinforcement schedule?

Continuous

Which of the following statements is supported by research on homosexuality?

Studies of twins have shown a genetic predisposition to homosexuality.

Sara had an argument with her coworker, Adam. That night, Sara had a dream that she was shopping at a mall and Adam was in every store in which she shopped. A psychoanalyst would say that Adam's being at the mall in her dream was an example of which of the following?

The manifest content

Mode

The value that occurs most frequently in a given data set.

When a child behaves well for an entire day, the child earns a star. After acquiring fifteen stars, the child is allowed to pick a prize from a toy chest. The star is best described as

a secondary reinforcer

Ivan Pavlov's experiments

demonstrated how learning can be studied objectively

During English class, Caleb is worried about an unfinished history project he needs to turn in later in the day. While the English teacher and other students discuss a short story the class just read, Caleb's attention is focused on how to finish the history project. The next day he is unable to recall the short story details presented in English class. The recall problem is most likely due to

encoding failure

Kathryn and Rafael's third and last child is leaving home for college next year. Their empty nest is likely to be a(n) ________ place.

happy

Simon LeVay discovered that a neural cluster located in the ________ was larger in heterosexual men than in homosexual men.

hypothalamus

The fovea has the greatest visual acuity in bright light primarily because the fovea is

made up of only cones

As individuals progress through their teen years into early adulthood, their self-concepts typically become

more positive.

The cerebellum is most directly involved in

motor learning

Dr. Naum is studying the function of the medial temporal lobe of the brain by examining the case study of J.S., an individual who incurred damage in this area during a motor vehicle accident. Dr. Naum administers a battery of tasks multiple times over the course of several weeks to assess J.S.'s cognitive abilities. The graph below shows J.S.'s performance on three different tasks. The bar on the left shows his accuracy forming new memories in a lab context, the middle bar shows his accuracy on a driving course, and the bar on the right shows his accuracy on a third task. Based on the scores on the three tasks, Task 3 most likely involves

remembering events that occurred shortly before his accident

Four-year-old Karen can't remember anything of the first few months of her life. This is best explained by the fact that

she lacked language skills for organizing her early life experiences.

Mean

the arithmetic average of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores

If the heritability of height is calculated to be .80, this means 80 percent of

the difference in height among people are due to genes.

Median

the middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it

Makayla and Noah are listening to a song that ends with all the instruments playing the same note. Makayla can distinguish the various instruments playing the note, while Noah cannot. Which of the following best explains their perceptual differences?

Makayla is better at discriminating timbre than Noah.

Which of the following activities most directly relies on the hippocampus?

Memorizing the layout of a neighborhood

Which developmental milestone must be reached before an infant experiences separation anxiety?

Object permanence