AP PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Classical and operant conditioning are based on the principals of which
psychological perspective? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔Jazz is determined to quit drinking and enters a therapy program. The program
places a nausea-inducing drug into each drink she takes. After a few weeks, the sight or
thought of a drink makes Jazz sick. Her sickness as a result of the drug is an -
✔✔Unconditioned response (UR)
✔✔Review the scenario in Question 16. The drug that makes her sick is an -
✔✔Unconditioned stimulus (US)
✔✔An employee at a shoe store is paid $10 for each pair that he sells. If he does not
sell any shoes, he does not get paid. His paycheck is based on which of the following
schedules of reinforcement? - ✔✔Fixed ratio
✔✔An employee at the store next door gets paid every Friday, no matter how many
pairs of shoes she sells. Her paycheck is based on which of the following scheduled of
reinforcement? - ✔✔Fixed interval
✔✔Which of the following statements is true? - ✔✔Positive reinforcement continues a
behavior; negative reinforcement continues a behavior
✔✔What role can classical conditioning principals play in improving the health of human
beings? - ✔✔Drug and food cravings have more connection to classical conditioning
✔✔Why does Pavlov's work remain so important? - ✔✔Learning can be studied
objectively
✔✔Which of the following best describes the view of the mind held by Plato and
Socrates? - ✔✔The mind is separate from the body and continues after the body dies
✔✔The self-reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings is called -
✔✔Introspection
✔✔Research participants were asked to monitor and report their own immediate
sensory reactions to differently colored objects. This research involved a technique
known as - ✔✔Introspection
✔✔The unreliability of introspection contributed to the waning popularity of -
✔✔Structuralism
, ✔✔Contemporary psychologists are most likely to reject which of the following as
appropriate for the study of psychology? - ✔✔Introspection
✔✔The early school of psychology known as functionalism was developed by -
✔✔William James
✔✔Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the -
✔✔adaptive value of conscious thoughts and emotions
✔✔In its early years, psychology focused on the study of ___________, but from the
1920s into the 1960s, American psychologists emphasized the study of ___________. -
✔✔mental life; observable behavior
✔✔In explaining human behavior, psychoanalysts are likely to focus on
_____________, whereas humanistic psychologists concentrate on __________. -
✔✔childhood experiences and unconscious thought processes; current environmental
influences on potential
✔✔Behaviorists dismissed the value of - ✔✔introspection
✔✔Humanistic psychologists focused on the the importance of - ✔✔healthy growth
potential
✔✔In the 1960s, humanistic psychologists considered the approach advanced by
behaviorists to be excessively - ✔✔limited
✔✔In the early 1960s, the cognitive revolution in psychology involved a renewal of
interest in the scientific study of - ✔✔mental processes
✔✔Which area of psychology might be best suited to investigate the following research
question: what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events,
and how does this process affect behavior? - ✔✔Cognitive neuroscience
✔✔Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of - ✔✔behavior
and mental processes
✔✔In the context of debates regarding the origins of knowledge, Aristotle is to
____________ as Plato is to _____________. - ✔✔nurture; nature
✔✔The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as -
✔✔natural selection
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Classical and operant conditioning are based on the principals of which
psychological perspective? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔Jazz is determined to quit drinking and enters a therapy program. The program
places a nausea-inducing drug into each drink she takes. After a few weeks, the sight or
thought of a drink makes Jazz sick. Her sickness as a result of the drug is an -
✔✔Unconditioned response (UR)
✔✔Review the scenario in Question 16. The drug that makes her sick is an -
✔✔Unconditioned stimulus (US)
✔✔An employee at a shoe store is paid $10 for each pair that he sells. If he does not
sell any shoes, he does not get paid. His paycheck is based on which of the following
schedules of reinforcement? - ✔✔Fixed ratio
✔✔An employee at the store next door gets paid every Friday, no matter how many
pairs of shoes she sells. Her paycheck is based on which of the following scheduled of
reinforcement? - ✔✔Fixed interval
✔✔Which of the following statements is true? - ✔✔Positive reinforcement continues a
behavior; negative reinforcement continues a behavior
✔✔What role can classical conditioning principals play in improving the health of human
beings? - ✔✔Drug and food cravings have more connection to classical conditioning
✔✔Why does Pavlov's work remain so important? - ✔✔Learning can be studied
objectively
✔✔Which of the following best describes the view of the mind held by Plato and
Socrates? - ✔✔The mind is separate from the body and continues after the body dies
✔✔The self-reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings is called -
✔✔Introspection
✔✔Research participants were asked to monitor and report their own immediate
sensory reactions to differently colored objects. This research involved a technique
known as - ✔✔Introspection
✔✔The unreliability of introspection contributed to the waning popularity of -
✔✔Structuralism
, ✔✔Contemporary psychologists are most likely to reject which of the following as
appropriate for the study of psychology? - ✔✔Introspection
✔✔The early school of psychology known as functionalism was developed by -
✔✔William James
✔✔Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the -
✔✔adaptive value of conscious thoughts and emotions
✔✔In its early years, psychology focused on the study of ___________, but from the
1920s into the 1960s, American psychologists emphasized the study of ___________. -
✔✔mental life; observable behavior
✔✔In explaining human behavior, psychoanalysts are likely to focus on
_____________, whereas humanistic psychologists concentrate on __________. -
✔✔childhood experiences and unconscious thought processes; current environmental
influences on potential
✔✔Behaviorists dismissed the value of - ✔✔introspection
✔✔Humanistic psychologists focused on the the importance of - ✔✔healthy growth
potential
✔✔In the 1960s, humanistic psychologists considered the approach advanced by
behaviorists to be excessively - ✔✔limited
✔✔In the early 1960s, the cognitive revolution in psychology involved a renewal of
interest in the scientific study of - ✔✔mental processes
✔✔Which area of psychology might be best suited to investigate the following research
question: what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events,
and how does this process affect behavior? - ✔✔Cognitive neuroscience
✔✔Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of - ✔✔behavior
and mental processes
✔✔In the context of debates regarding the origins of knowledge, Aristotle is to
____________ as Plato is to _____________. - ✔✔nurture; nature
✔✔The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as -
✔✔natural selection
