AP Psych Unit 1 and 2 review

Damage to the cerebellum would most likely result in which of the following problems?

A loss of motor coordination

Which of the following is true of the frequency distributions shown in the graphs?

Distribution B has more variation than distributions A or C.

The notion that human behavior is greatly influenced by unconscious thoughts and desires is most consistent with which of the following psychological approaches?

Psychoanalytic

A test has a mean of 80 with a standard deviation of 4. Which of the following scores is within one standard deviation of the mean?

77

In a normal distribution, which of the following statements is true about the area that falls between one standard deviation above and one standard deviation below the mean?

It contains the middle 68% of the distribution.

A person will most likely develop aphasia as a result of damage to which of the following parts of the brain?

Wernicke's area

Damage to a small part of the occipital lobe would most likely result in a

visual deficit

All of the following are American Psychological Association ethical guidelines for researchers EXCEPT:

Participants must be offered alternative activities if research participation is a course requirement.

If an individual has lost the ability to feel pain in the left arm, there is most likely damage to what area of the brain?

Right parietal lobe

A person displays a set of rare behaviors that psychologists had not known about previously, because nobody had ever shown them before. The best strategy to investigate the nature of those behaviors is

a case study

The division of the nervous system that most directly allows voluntary muscle movement is the

somatic

Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system results in which of the following?

A decrease in heart rate

The depletion of which of the following neurotransmitters is most closely associated with the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?

Acetylcholine

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

Assessment of a treatment designed to reduce schizophrenic symptoms.

A person with damage to Broca's area would most likely demonstrate which of the following symptoms?

Difficulty with speech production

Which of the following research approaches would be best for testing the hypothesis that the presence of certain odors causes people to gamble more?

Experimental

The area labeled X in the drawing denotes which of the following structures?

Synaptic terminals

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

hippocampus

A disadvantage of longitudinal studies is that

participants who drop out during the course of the study may be different in important ways from ones who do not drop out

An evolutionary psychologist would explain that humans desire social interaction, social acceptance, and social affiliation due to a need for

survival