ap psych final and learning unit

Which of the following do individuals experience when their behavior is inconsistent with their attitude

cognitive dissonance

The failure of bystanders to give victims of automobile accidents needed assistance is sometimes explained as an instance of

diffusion of responsibility

When the word "walk" is changed to "walked," the suffix "ed" is an example of a

morpheme

According to Benjamin Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, which of the following is true?

Different languages predispose those individuals who speak them to think about the world in different ways

A club president discovers that contributions of club members drop when the total contribution of all members is published rather than the contributions of individuals. This drop can be explained by the phenomenon of

social loafing

Which of the following regularities in behavior can most likely be accounted for by the existence of a group norm

students tend to use less profanity with adults than they do with their peers

Damage to which of the following best explains conduction deafness

Hammer, anvil, and stirrup

Which of the following is the correct sequence of the neural chain of events set in motion by an environmental stimulus?

receptors, afferent neurons, interneurons, efferent neurons, effectors

When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, which of the following will most likely occur?

there will be no transfer of the information to long term memory

Which of the following sets of scores has the greatest standard deviation?

2.7.9.22

Which is a definition of discrimination that most directly applies to perception

A: Recognizing an object is distinct from its surroundings.

A double-blind control is essential for which of the following?

Assessment of a treatment designed to reduce schizophrenic symptoms.

Language acquisition cannot be fully accounted for by associative learning processes for which of the following reasons?

Language use is creative.

An individual's ability to remember the day he or she first swam the length of a swimming pool is most clearly an example of which kind of memory

Procedural

According to cognitive dissonance theory, human beings are motivated to

Reduce tensions produced by inconsistent thoughts

In an emergency situation, the adrenal glands secrete hormones that cause all of the following except

Reduced arousal

A person with sight in only one eye lacks which of the following visual cues for seeing in depth?

Retinal disparity

Which of the following studies has had the most profound impact on ethical issues in psychological research?

Stanley Milgram's study of obedience.

The fundamental attribution error occurs when individuals do which of the following?

The fundamental attribution error refers to an individual's tendency to attribute another's actions to their character or personality, while attributing their behavior to external situational factors outside of their control.Jun 8, 2017

Drawing a random sample of people from a town for an interview study of social attitudes insures that

a. each person in town has the same probability of being chosen for the study

John suffered a head injury in an accident five years ago. He now has clear memories of events that occurred before the accident, but he has great difficulty remembering any of the experiences he has had since the accident. John's symptoms describe

anterograde amnesia

If Nishanth tried to learn a long list of words, he would most likely to forget words that

are in the middle

Which process transfers information from sensory memory to short-term memory?

attention

People who are color blind most likely have deficiencies in their

cones

The two sentences "Elena won the race" and "The race was won by Elena" share which of the following structures?

deep

Which of the following explains the behavior of normally law-abiding people who act destructively when they are a part of a crowd?

deindividuation

A person is asked to listen to a series of tones presented in pairs, and asked to say whether the tones in each pair are the same or different in pitch. In this situation the experimenter is most likely measuring the individual's

difference threshold

The brain scans of people with amnesia are most likely to show damage to the

hippocampus

In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of words to two groups. She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz. During a recall test, participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A. Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in

levels of processing

Two-year-old Jia tells her grandmother that she "sweeped" the floor yesterday. The scenario illustrates that children

overgeneralize the use of grammatical rules

Research finds that, in general, the higher an incoming college student scores on a given test, the higher the student's grade point average (GPA). Which of the following best describes this relationship?

positive correlation

Neurosurgeons cut the corpus callosum in the brain disrupting communication between the right and left hemispheres to

prevent the spread of epileptic seizures

A sudden inability to remember how to tie a certain kind of knot indicates a deficit in which kind of memory?

procedrurel

The correlation between two measures obtained on a group of individuals is graphically represented as a

scatterplot

According to research on attraction, people are most likely to be attracted to others who are:

similar to themselves

A prototype is best defined as

the hypothetical most typical of something

The gate control theory attempts to explain how

the nervous system blocks or allows pain signals to pass to the brain.

Research on physical attractiveness has shown that

we tend to ascribe desirable personality characteristics to good-looking people.