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AP Psychology Practice Exam 2

ANSWER SHEET FOR MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

AP Psychology Practice Exam 2

SECTION I

Time—70 minutes

100 Questions

Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then fill in the corresponding oval on the answer sheet.

1. To act consistently with the group’s behavior, Etan changed what he was doing. This illustrates

(A) stereotyping

(B) conformity

(C) obedience to authority

(D) out-group homogeneity

(E) hindsight bias

2. Which of the following approaches emphasizes the importance of people’s feelings and views human nature as naturally positive and growth seeking?

(A) biological

(B) behavioral

(C) cognitive

(D) humanistic

(E) psychodynamic

3. Children are most likely to grow up more competent and responsible when they are raised by parents who behave in a manner considered

(A) authoritarian

(B) authoritative

(C) permissive

(D) inconsistent

(E) very strict

4. Rather than use a shortcut to find out various possible combinations of alleles that could result from fertilization of an egg with particular genes by a sperm with particular genes, Shakira systematically lists every single possible combination to determine the probability that the baby will show a particular set of traits. Shakira is solving the problem by use of

(A) trial and error

(B) the availability heuristic

(C) the representativeness heuristic

(D) an algorithm

(E) confirmation bias

5. Bessie could barely detect sweetness in a sip of water from a pitcher in which one quarter of a teaspoon of water was mixed into a half gallon of water. For taste, this is Bessie’s

(A) absolute threshold

(B) difference threshold

(C) subliminal stimulation

(D) distal stimulus

(E) just noticeable difference

6. Extinction occurs when the conditioned stimulus

(A) precedes the unconditioned stimulus

(B) succeeds the unconditioned stimulus

(C) evokes the conditioned response

(D) no longer evokes the conditioned response

(E) is paired with the neutral stimulus

7. A doctor suspects that her patient’s language processing area is in the right hemisphere. This would most likely be corroborated by the use of

(A) CAT

(B) MRI

(C) PET

(D) MMPI

(E) TAT

8. Free association and dream interpretation frequently characterize which of the following treatments?

(A) psychoanalysis

(B) behavior therapy

(C) humanistic therapy

(D) cognitive therapy

(E) existential therapy

9. Because Al doesn’t care how well he does at school, but does care about having enough money to pay for a car, Al’s mother gives him money for every “A” and “B” he earns on school tests and projects. For which of the following theories is the mother’s behavior an exemplary application?

(A) Cannon-Bard

(B) instinct

(C) drive reduction

(D) arousal

(E) incentive

10. In a cartoon, an angel is perched on one shoulder and a devil is perched on the other shoulder of a character who needs to decide whether to give money to a homeless man or not. The devil says, “Don’t give him anything, you’ll make better use of the money than he will.” The angel says, “Give him the money because he needs it more than you do.” The character gives the homeless man half of his money. In a Freudian interpretation, the angel represents the character’s

(A) libido

(B) id

(C) ego

(D) superego

(E) reality principle

11. Barry reported that in his study, the relationship between religiosity and academic grades was not statistically significant. By “not statistically significant,” he meant that the results

(A) were not important

(B) were not strong

(C) might have been due to chance

(D) were of no value to statisticians

(E) do not suggest any relationship

12. What