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AP Psychology practice Practice for AP Psychology with questions covering behavior, cognition, and research methods.
13 original sample questions with answers and explanations. This is a short practice set, not a full exam or an official past paper.
1. In a study, researchers find that students who sleep more tend to have higher grades. This demonstrates: Causation between sleep and grades An experimental manipulation A correlation between sleep and grades Random assignment
2. Which neurotransmitter is most associated with the pleasure and reward system in the brain? Serotonin Dopamine GABA Acetylcholine
3. According to Piaget, the ability to understand that objects continue to exist even when not visible develops during which stage? Sensorimotor stage Preoperational stage Concrete operational stage Formal operational stage
4. A dog salivates when hearing a bell after the bell has been repeatedly paired with food. In this example, the bell is the: Unconditioned stimulus Unconditioned response Conditioned response Conditioned stimulus
5. The cocktail party effect demonstrates: Sensory adaptation Selective attention Inattentional blindness Perceptual set
6. Which part of the brain is most involved in forming new explicit memories? Hippocampus Cerebellum Amygdala Medulla
7. Conformity to a group even when the group is obviously wrong, as shown in Asch's line experiments, demonstrates: Obedience to authority Informational social influence Normative social influence Deindividuation
8. A person with damage to Broca's area would most likely have difficulty with: Understanding spoken language Visual perception Motor coordination Producing fluent speech
9. According to the psychoanalytic perspective, the part of personality that operates on the reality principle is the: Ego Id Superego Unconscious
10. Schizophrenia is characterized by which type of symptoms? Only mood disturbances Exclusively anxiety symptoms Only memory impairment Positive symptoms such as hallucinations and negative symptoms such as flat affect
11. In Milgram's obedience studies, participants were most likely to obey when: The authority figure was absent The authority figure was present and gave direct orders The victim was in the same room Other participants refused to obey
12. Which defense mechanism involves attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts to others? Repression Displacement Projection Rationalization
13. A test is considered reliable if it: Measures what it claims to measure Produces consistent results over time Has been standardized on a large sample Predicts future behavior
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