Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

(D) A correlation shows a relationship but not necessarily a cause-and-effect relationship. Ther ...

Personality ANSWERS TO PRACTICE QUESTIONS 1. (D) Freud described the superego as the part of the mind that ...

(B) During the early 1900s in the United States, behaviorism was the dominant psychological ...

(A) A test that does not yield consistent results is not reliable. Such a test may still have be ...

(C) Standard deviation is measure of variability. The greater the standard deviation, the more v ...

(B) The humanistic model of personality arose in opposition to the determinism of earlier models. One of the fundam ...

(C) Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas and used to turn glucose in the bloodstream into glycogen ...

(D) Because the id follows the pleasure principle, it pursues immediate gratification. If Mary were all id, ...

(B) Raising your hand to answer a question is a voluntary motor movement controlled by the somati ...

(C) Reciprocal determinism, also known as triadic reciprocality, is Bandura’s theory that personality aris ...

(B) The hypothalamus controls motivated behaviors such as eating and having sex. The amygdala is important ...

(E) Juan is projecting. Instead of acknowledging the feelings he has toward Sally, he views Sally as having ...

(C) Bottom-up processing is when an object is perceived only by examining the object itself. Signal d ...

(C) Dr. Li is using the TAT (thematic apperception test). The Rorschach test asks people to look at ink ...

(C) The opponent process theory of color vision explains that some of the cells that help us to see ...

(D) A lot of research suggests that shyness or inhibition is inherited. Relatively little evidence exists t ...

(C) Latent learning is learning that occurs in the absence of a reward even though it may not be evidence ...

(D) Self-actualization is typically defined as achieving one’s full potential; very few people ever truly s ...

(E) Rescorla’s contingency theory of classical conditioning modified the original contiguity theory by saying ...

(D) Honesty is not considered one of the big five personality traits. The big five are extraversion, openness, agree ...