5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2014-2015 Edition

38.Which of the following is a hallucination?

(A) thinking you are President of the United

States

(B) being sure that your boss is out to get you

(C) thinking this is 2010

(D) feeling extraordinarily happy and agitated

one moment, then extraordinarily depressed

the next

(E) hearing voices that are not actually there

39.Stella remembered the order of the planets from
the Sun by recalling the sentence, “My very edu-
cated mother just served us noodles.” For Stella,
this sentence is a

(A) chunking strategy

(B) mnemonic device

(C) peg system

(D) acoustic encoding sequence

(E) proactive interference inhibitor

40.Which of the following is caused by a teratogen?

(A) Tay-Sachs disease

(B) Klinefelter’s syndrome

(C) Turner’s syndrome

(D) Down syndrome

(E) Fetal alcohol syndrome

41.In classical conditioning the learner learns to
associate the unconditioned stimulus with

(A) an unconditioned response

(B) a conditioned stimulus

(C) a conditioned response

(D) a negative reinforcer

(E) a punishment

42.According to Selye’s General Adaptation
Syndrome (GAS) theory, of the following stages,
we are most susceptible to disease during

(A) resolution

(B) resistance

(C) alarm

(D) exhaustion

(E) extinction

43.Jeanette locked the front door and then checked

it by turning the knob. She checked it a second

time. After walking halfway down the path to

the street, Jeanette went back to the door and

checked to make sure that it was locked. Her

behavior appears to be

(A) psychotic

(B) schizophrenic

(C) obsessive

(D) compulsive

(E) manic

44.Carlos could consistently differentiate the note

middle C on the violin from middle C on the

piano because of the difference in

(A) frequency

(B) primary wavelength

(C) amplitude

(D) timbre

(E) volume

45.Hunger, thirst, and sex are most closely associ-

ated with stimulation of the

(A) pons

(B) cerebellum

(C) hypothalamus

(D) temporal lobes

(E) basal ganglia

46.For which of the following disorders might a psy-

chiatrist prescribe a selective serotonin reuptake

inhibitor such as Prozac or Paxil?

(A) manic

(B) depressive

(C) dissociative identity

(D) conversion

(E) disorganized schizophrenic

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