AP Psychology Hard practice

In the diathesis-stress model of psychological disorders, a person develops a disorder when:

Elizabeth Loftus's research on eyewitness testimony demonstrated that memory is reconstructive rather than reproductive. Which experimental finding most directly supports this conclusion?

A researcher wants to assess personality using the Big Five (OCEAN) model. A participant scores very high on Neuroticism and very low on Agreeableness. Which behavioral profile is most consistent with these scores?

A cognitive psychologist studies how people decide whether an object belongs to a category. Participants judge a robin as a 'bird' faster than they judge a penguin as a 'bird.' This finding is best explained by:

A student studies a chapter in sections, pausing to quiz herself after each section rather than re-reading it. Research on memory encoding predicts that the self-quizzing method will produce better long-term retention because it relies primarily on:

The Weber-Fechner law describes the relationship between physical stimulus intensity and the resulting psychological perception. Which statement best captures this principle?

According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, a person who repeatedly makes self-defeating decisions after a painful divorce is unconsciously recreating familiar patterns from childhood. This dynamic best illustrates which Freudian concept?

A clinical psychologist is asked whether a particular psychological test measures what it claims to measure — for example, whether a test labeled 'social anxiety scale' actually captures social anxiety and not general neuroticism. The psychologist is evaluating the test's:

Harlow's studies of rhesus monkeys raised with wire versus cloth surrogate mothers showed that when frightened, monkeys clung to the cloth mother even when only the wire mother provided food. This finding challenged which prior assumption about attachment?

A fixed-ratio reinforcement schedule delivers a reward after a set number of responses. Compared to a variable-ratio schedule, fixed-ratio schedules produce which pattern of responding?

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), commonly prescribed for depression, work by:

A split-brain patient has the word 'APPLE' flashed to the left visual field only. When asked to say what was seen, the patient says 'nothing,' but when asked to point with the left hand to the object seen, correctly points to an apple. This finding best demonstrates:

Research on optimism and health outcomes consistently shows that dispositional optimists have better immune function and recover more quickly from surgery. The biopsychosocial model best explains this finding by noting that:

Bandura's concept of self-efficacy refers to a person's belief in their ability to execute behaviors necessary for a specific outcome. Which factor does Bandura identify as the most powerful source of self-efficacy?

A study finds that cancer patients who participate in a structured social support group have significantly longer survival times than those who do not. Critics argue the study may confound social support with the effects of patients discussing healthier behaviors. To control for this alternative explanation, the researchers should: