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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 compe-
tent and responsible when they are raised by par-
ents 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 pos-
sible 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 deter-
mine the probability that the baby will show a par-
ticular 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 tea-

spoon 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 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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