AP PSYCH FINAL COMPLETE QUIZ

AP PSYCH FINAL COMPLETE QUIZ A disadvantage of longitudinal studies is that ANSWER = B participants who drop out during the course of the study may be different in important ways from ones who do not drop out A person displays a set of rare behaviors that psychologists had not known about previously, because nobody had ever shown them before. The best strategy to investigate the nature of those behaviors is ANSWER = C a case study A person will most likely develop aphasia as a result of damage to which of the following parts of the brain? ANSWER = B Wernicke's area A psychologist designed a study to test the effects of cell phone use on driving safety. Participants were randomly assigned either to drive an automobile simulator while talking to a friend on a cell phone or to drive a simulator without talking on a phone. Which type of research does the scenario describe? ANSWER = E Experimental After spending hours in her kitchen preparing dinner, Rebecca no longer notices the strong smell of garlic until her guests arrive and mention the smell. Her failure to notice the smell of garlic illustrates ANSWER = C sensory adaptation Activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system results in ANSWER = C an increase in respiratory rate According to psychoanalytic theory, the bases for the development of mental disorders are ANSWER = C unconscious conflicts that produce anxiety A teacher finds the distribution of scores on a final exam to be positively skewed with low variability. On the basis of this information, the teacher would be most justified in concluding that ANSWER = C the exam was too difficult Balance is influenced by the