2007 ap psychology exam
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2007 AP Psychology exam. 1. The answer is A. B. tempting answer but the IQ is not necessarily valid C. huh? Validity is: Does the test measure what it is supposed to. Does the math test test math or reading ability?. 2. C conformity - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• 1. The answer is A.
• B. tempting answer but the IQ is not necessarily valid
• C. huh?
• Validity is: Does the test measure what it is supposed to. Does the math test test math or reading ability?
• 2. C conformity
• The students conformed their answers as they heard others telling their answers (much like Solomon Asch’s line study)
• 3. The answer is D.• Guidelines for human research:• Coercion – Participation must be voluntary• Informed consent – They must know that they are
involved in research and give their consent. If they are deceived, what they DID consent to must be similar to actual study. Minimize trauma.
• Anonymity/confidentiality/privacy• Risk – mental and physical safety• Debriefing procedure – afterward, participants must be told of purpose of study - need ability to contact researcher about results
• 7. E.
• Recall is remembering off the top of your head (fill in blank). Recognition is picking stuff out of a lineup (like a X choice)
• Recognition is easier. The FRQ (essay) on the AP exam relies on recall.
• 8. A (phobia) is not the best answer. People with phobias are not necessarily obsessed with spiders.
• E. OCD
• 11. acquisition (the acquiring of connection)
• Generalization (like Little Albert)
• Extinction (connection goes away)
• Discrimination (knowing the difference)
• E. Spontaneous recovery
• 14. A. hippocampus is memory (If you ever saw a hippo on campus you would definitely remember that!)
• B. hypothalamus (the four Fs: feeding, fleeing, fighting and . . . Ahem. . . Mating)
• 17. C mean
• If you have a classroom full of 17-year olds and one 80 year old, that will drastically affect the mean.
• 23. C Convergence is a binocular depth cue. As the ball approaches you, you kind of cross your eyes to determine how close the ball is.
• 25. A. behaviorists
• Antabuse causes you to puke when you drink alcohol; therefore, it gives alcoholics a taste aversion to alcohol. (drinking alcohol is a behavior)
• 36. A and D. too psychoanalytic
• E. too much; too fast (this isn’t Maury!)
• B. What I thought (but wrong!)
• C. create a hierarchy, then gradually, systematically expose
• 37.C experimental group drug Y is the independent variable so those that receive it are the experimental group.
• 40. A, B, C: they are not reinforcing the behavior
• E. What are they substituting?
• D. extinction (the tantrums go away)
• 42. A. Carl Rogers (humanists are person- centered so they don’t offer advice since the client knows everything)
• Beck and Ellis did offer advice
• Freud and Jung were psychoanalysts so they were obsessed with the unconscious mind.
• 49. What are you measuring? That’s the dependent variable. You are measuring how many boxes of cookies you sell. (rule out A,B,C).
• The IV is what is different between the 2 groups (type of package)
• The answer is E.
• 54. A. biopsychological – anger is caused by hormones (biological)
• B. anger is an adaptation to further the survival of the human race
• C. anger is a disconnect from our actual and ideal self
• D. behavioral – our anger is a product of our environment
• E. internalized anger = unconscious mind
• 55. It’s either A or D.
• Assimilation – making it fit into a schema
• Accommodation – changing or creating a new schema
• The answer is A. The schema of “bird” will have to change to include flightless birds.
• 56. When looking for something humanistic, ask what would a hippie say?
• The answer is E.
• A. biopsychological
• B. cognitive
• C. behavioral
• D. psychodynamic
• 63. A. arousal theory would be they did it just for the danger and exicitement
• B. drive-reduction – like sex, hunger, going to the bathroom
• C. humanistic – self actualization
• D. the answer
• E. genes made them do it
• 65. Conventional/convergent thinking is the standard way to solve a problem (sometimes that’s the best!)
• Divergent thinking is more creative. Think of the word “diverge.”
• The answer is A
• 68. A, D, and E are neurotransmitters.
• The answer is B. Testosterone
• (That’s why kissing is so arousing because to ladies because there is much testosterone in male saliva)
• 69. A
• “I hurted my foot”
• A child knows the regulation of adding ed to make it past tense but sometimes they overdo it (they overregulate it)
• 74. Is a behavior reinforced or punished? Is something taken away or given to reinforce?
• The answer is B negative reinforcement.
• 75. The UCS is the food (the dog does not have to be conditioned to drool to food). The answer is A (the food must follow the bell).
• 77. B. inferiority complex
• Alfred Adler (psychoanalyst who studied birth order) was a sickly child. He feel we all strive to be superior (overcome the inferiority complex)
• 78. C The fundamental attribution error is a reflection of individualist philosophies. (That person is an individual; so am I.)
• 79. D. Schacter – Two factor (the second factor is the cognitive labeling.)
• The stimulus causes your autonomic nervous system to react and you cognitively assess the stimulus. Is your mom driving crazy or is it fun????
• 80. B. split-half reliability (measures whether the test is consistent throughout)
• Validity measures whether the test is valid (does it test or measure what it is supposed to)
• 81. C – crystalized intelligence
• I think of old people with “crystalized” joints; they can’t move as much. However, 51 is not old! That’s just how I remember it.
• 82. D
• The overjustification effect says when we are extrinsically rewarded (too much) for things we enjoy doing, we will not enjoy them as much.
• Do baseball players LOVE the game when they make millions of dollars?
• 83. D self serving bias
• We attribute our success to our dispositional (internal) characteristics. Also, we attribute our failures to external (situational) factors.
• Assimilation – making it fit into a schema
• Accommodation – changing or creating a new schema
• 85. D
• 89. E• Social inhibition is a conscious or subconscious constraint
by a person of behavior of a social nature. The constraint may be in relation to behavior, appearance, or a subject matter for discussion, besides other matters. There are a number of reasons for social inhibitions, including that the person fears that the activity, appearance or discussion will meet with social disapproval. For example, a person with a low level of social inhibition might focus their conversation on subjects that others feel uncomfortable about or which are not commonly discussed in that particular social group; while a person with a high level of social inhibition would avoid touching on such subjects.
• I guess it’s the opposite of social facilitation.
• 90. D Availability heuristic
• Dramatic events are more available in your mind.
• Sharks kill 5 people annually; Obesity kills 30,000!
• 91.D. Intmacy
• Erikson’s stage for early adulthood is Intimacy vs. Isolation
• A is a good answer, but that’s not what Erikson said.
• 92. The quote is by John Watson (Little Albert) It talks about how your behavior (career choice) can be manipulated by the environment.
• Then answer is E. Behaviorism
• Skip 93.
• 93. skip
• 94. A. typical example (what does your typical baby sitter look like?)
• B. that’s availability heuristic!
• D. that’s belief perseverance
• 97. The independent variable is what is different about the 2 groups (what is manipulated).
• The answer is B
• 99. Is there a positive or a negative correlation between sleep deprivation and concentration? Therefore rule out all positive numbers.
• Since correlation coeficients have to be between +1 and -1, the answer cannot be E. The answer must be D.