AP Psych Sem 1 & Sem 2 Questions
And Answers, and Proven Strategies
to Pass First Try (2026 Edition)
a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and
social change throughout the life span. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Developmental Psychology
the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division
and develops into an embryo. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Zygote
the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after
fertilization through the second month. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Embryo
,the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception
to birth. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Fetus
agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the
embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
- ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Teratogens
physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a
pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms
include noticeable facial misproportions. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As
infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual
stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Habituation
biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in
behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-Maturation
,all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Cognition
a concept or framework that organizes and interprets
information. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Schema
interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing
schemas. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Assimilation
Development - adapting our current understandings (schemas)
to incorporate new information. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Accommodation
in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age)
during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their
sensory impressions and motor activities. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Sensorimotor Stage
the awareness that things continue to exist even when not
perceived. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Object Permanence
, in Piaget's theory, the stage (from 2 to about 6 or 7 years of
age) during which a child learns to use language but does not
yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Preoperational Stage
the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete
operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume,
and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of
objects. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Conservation
in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking
another's point of view. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Egocentrism
people's ideas about their own and others' mental states—
about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the
behaviors these might predict. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Theory of
Mind
in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from
about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the
mental operations that enable them to think logically about
concrete events. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Concrete Operational
Stage
And Answers, and Proven Strategies
to Pass First Try (2026 Edition)
a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and
social change throughout the life span. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Developmental Psychology
the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division
and develops into an embryo. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Zygote
the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after
fertilization through the second month. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Embryo
,the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception
to birth. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Fetus
agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the
embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
- ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Teratogens
physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a
pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms
include noticeable facial misproportions. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As
infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual
stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Habituation
biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in
behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-Maturation
,all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Cognition
a concept or framework that organizes and interprets
information. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Schema
interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing
schemas. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Assimilation
Development - adapting our current understandings (schemas)
to incorporate new information. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Accommodation
in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age)
during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their
sensory impressions and motor activities. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-
Sensorimotor Stage
the awareness that things continue to exist even when not
perceived. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Object Permanence
, in Piaget's theory, the stage (from 2 to about 6 or 7 years of
age) during which a child learns to use language but does not
yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Preoperational Stage
the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete
operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume,
and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of
objects. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Conservation
in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking
another's point of view. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Egocentrism
people's ideas about their own and others' mental states—
about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the
behaviors these might predict. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Theory of
Mind
in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from
about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the
mental operations that enable them to think logically about
concrete events. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-Concrete Operational
Stage
