ap psych most missed questions

Based on the research into the role of glutamate circuits in the brain, you might predict that a reduction in this neurotransmitter would

Hinder memory formation

Which of the following kinds of studies can truly demonstrate that specific traits are indeed inherited?

No study can truly demonstrate that specific traits are indeed inherited

Bob has visual agnosia and is unable to recognize common, everyday objects. This condition MOST likely results from damage to the

ventral stream

Myopia is the condition of the eyes in which an individual's

vision is nearsighted

A researcher is measuring the heart rate of subjects as an index of anxiety. In this study, heart rate is

an operational definition of anxiety

Evelyn turned the thermostat up from 68 degrees to 70 degrees; however, she doesn't think it feels any warmer, so she wants to turn it up even higher. Her roommate thinks that it is now too hot, so she wants to turn the thermostat back down. Apparently, Evelyn

has a larger JND for temperature than her roommate does

Statistics that are used to interpret data and draw conclusions are called

inferential statistics

Brooke is a graduate student whose major area of interest is in describing and understanding the consistency in people's behavior. Which research is Brooke MOST likely to specialize in?

personality psychology

Hearing aids are of no use to an individual with _____________ deafness:

nerve

The fact that your criterion for "hearing" mysterious noises at night may change after a rash of burglaries in your neighborhood can best be explained by

signal-detection theory

The school of psychology that focused on identifying and examining the fundamental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images, was

structuralism

Feature analysis assumes that we progress from individual elements to the whole in the formation of our perceptions. This is a case of

Bottom-up processing

The brain-imaging method that uses multiple X-rays to generate a picture of a horizontal slice of the brain is

Computerized tomography

The technique in which radioactively tagged chemicals are introduced into the brain and then equipment monitors where the chemicals appear in the brain is

PET

Which of the following approaches do researchers in psychology take to address the fact that our experiences of the world are highly subjective?

They consistently apply the scientific method

According to Darwin's theory of evolution, which of the following is the key factor in evolutionary change?

Variations in reproductive success

The primary reason for the ethical dilemmas psychologists encounter regarding the use of deception in research reflects concerns

about the possibility of inflicting harm on human subjects

An action potential is

an electrical signal that travels along the axon of a neuron

Trevor plans to study the relationship between people's responses to highly stressful situations and their overall health. He decides he must use correlational research, rather than experimental research, to investigate this problem. Trevor most likely chose a correlational method because correlational studies...

can be used to investigate factors that would be unethical to manipulate in an experimental study

Overall, it appears that we perceive

changing stimuli better than constant ones

Statistics that are used to summarize and organize data are called

descriptive data

Taylor has to have brain surgery to remove a tumor from her temporal lobe. As the surgery progresses, the surgeon plans to map out specific brain functions in the areas adjacent to the tumor. The method that the surgeon is MOST likely to use is

esb

Much of the endocrine system is controlled by the nervous system through the

hypothalamus

If inhibitory postsynaptic potentials did not exist

it would be "easier" for a neuron to fire its action potential

The psychology who proposed that the study of consciousness should be replaced by the study of behavior was

john b. watson

Of the following, the only sensory system that does NOT project upward to the cerebral cortex through the thalamus is

olfaction

Which of the following areas of research in psychology is concerned with assessing individual differences, developing tests, and developing new statistical techniques?

psychometrics

The notion that the subject matter of psychology should be the scientific study of conscious experience is MOST closely linked with

wundt