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AP Psychology Practice Exam 2 ❮ 301

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 com-
   petent 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 system-
   atically 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 sugar 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 pro-
   cessing 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 fre-
   quently characterize which of the following
   treatments?

(A) psychoanalysis

(B) behavior therapy

(C) humanistic therapy

(D) cognitive therapy

(E) existential therapy

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